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Font with Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters. Extrapolated from a 5-letter logo for an Austrian Power Company.
"Ambigrams" are words with lettering designed in such a way that they can be read the same way from different angles.
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Simple ambigram for the name Jennifer, which reads the same from both directions.
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This, then, is an alphabet for phrases that would be readable both right-side-up and upside-down. For example, the word "pod" or the phrase "smart jews" would look exactly the same from both directions.