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Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by 082349872349872 » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

arketyp wrote: post #5

Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by Waterluvian » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

rex_lupi wrote: post #2

Probably the most low-effort blog post I've read in a while

Funny enough, I came to the comments section to say how much I enjoy the occasional short post that touches on one thing and moves on.

I don’t need my life to be chock full of deep dives into ideas.

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by Fnoord » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 5:11 PM UTC

croes wrote: post #9

arketyp wrote: post #5

Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.

Lower case u not so much because in some fonts it's just a smaller upper case U. But the y is as symmetrical as j or g.

Yet the uppercase G is symmetric to 6. Case in point: 604.

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by sedev » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

There's also the niche use case of vertically arranged English letters — you see this once in a while on signage, but my favorite example is from _Street Fighter 3,_ where the character DeeJay has pants with "MAXIMUM" written down the leg, which means that you can flip the sprite (i.e. to have the character face left or right) and the word stays intact.

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by tobr » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 6:02 PM UTC

arketyp wrote: post #5

Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.

I always appreciated the rotational symmetry of “up”/“dn” (as seen on some keyboards in the context of Page up and Page down).

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by flobosg » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC

sedev wrote: post #14

There's also the niche use case of vertically arranged English letters — you see this once in a while on signage, but my favorite example is from _Street Fighter 3,_ where the character DeeJay has pants with "MAXIMUM" written down the leg, which means that you can flip the sprite (i.e. to have the character face left or right) and the word stays intact.

> Street Fighter 3

I think it’s Street Fighter Alpha 3, and it happens in a previous game as well: Super Street Fighter II – see https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/8/88/... and https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/d/dc/...