Lydia ambigram

Lydia

This is another example of a chain inversion (like Graham). The overly cursive letterforms were deliberate: how else to make an l into a convincing y?

The tricky part of this design was to stop the ia ligature becoming a p (albeit a p with a dot over it!) – and that’s what the break in the loop of the d/a is for; without it the design didn’t read correctly.