My friend, Hartosh (I had written previously about his mathematical novel here) and his wife Pam, recently had a baby boy. This ambigram is of his name: Nihal
Enjoy.
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Hello. A friend at work and his wife just had a baby boy and his name is Nihal. Would it be alright if I copied your ambigram for a name wall art to give them as a gift?
Of course. Congratulations to your friend and family. Let me know if you need a higher resolution version.
Do one which reads pinky upside down…that would be funny, though unfair. Here’s another idea: do pamtosh which reads nihal upside down.
oh, i like this, but as a challenge, shouldn’t the ambigram be in the original script that the name belongs to? 😉
Well, I don’t know Gurmukhi 🙂
And Hindi, boy, that’s a tough language to create ambigrams in. I have tried with no real success.
i REALLY like this one