Martin

You can’t get a much more strightforward rotational inversion than this one, which in truth was a relatively simple challenge.

The use of the cursive serifs on the vertical strokes of the m, i and n is a trick I have borrowed from Scott Kim. It is an effect that works largely due to context: martin is a letter string that has familiarity and meaning; an alternate interpretation – such as the string martiu – is neither familiar nor meaningful and so the design is not interpreted that way, even though in other contexts the same glyph could be used as the letter u.

This design also demonstrates a solution to one of the problems of designing ambigrams: what to do with the extra dot of an inverted i. By joining the dot to the t using a flourish the redundant dot (below the last vertical stroke of the m) is not quite so conspicuous.