Forty Two

Another design suggested by someone else, in the sense that trying to create a design of such a familiar number had never occured to me. There’s also a simple rotational design of the decimal representation in the works too, I’ve just not gotten round to scanning it in and tidying it up just yet.

This is another rotational chain ambigram, in the style of such old favourites as Lydia and Graham; and just as well too, since this allowed me to use the o as the primary ‘pivot’ around which to spin the other letters. (It’s difficult, after all, to make an upsidedown o into anything other than another o.)

I do rather like the neat rty/Tw ligature, and the readability is strong, even though the strokes of the rty string are run together. I guess this works because these letters are reminiscent of joined up handwriting, which is something we’re all quite good at decoding.