Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Varda ambigram

Those few who have been following me for a really long time will remember that there was a period of time where ambigrams took over this blog, much as syncs have done now, and accounted for the bulk of my posts. I haven't done any in a long time, but my recent post "Varda Elentári" said:

Given the recent theme of writing things backwards or upside down, I thought it was potentially significant that the student wrote the name “backwards” in a sense, but in such a way that the final result was the same as if it had been written in the ordinary way.

That’s the concept of the ambigram (or some kinds anyway): You write something so that it reads the same upside down or backwards as it does read in the ordinary way. Then I realized that the name Varda is virtually a naturally occurring ambigram, requiring very little ingenuity on the part of the artist:

4 comments:

Bruce Charlton said...

Yay! Ambigrams are back in town!

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

It's been 15 years since I was making them regularly. Bruce, I think you might be the only reader from back then who's still around.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful! I've looked at your ambigrams in the past, quite interesting.

WanderingGondola said...

D'oh, did it again... That was me.

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