This document provides a tutorial for making an ambigram of the word "Sisters". It explains that certain letters like S, N, H, I, O, Z, X, and T are naturally symmetrical and easier to manipulate. The tutorial instructs the reader to write down the word, work on each letter individually to match its inverted pair, and create a skeleton that can be tweaked through trial and error. It then walks through creating each letter for "Sisters", noting the cursive S must be modified to look like an inverted E.

2. » This is a tutorial on how I go about making an
ambigram
» Not all words are ambigram-able. So, pick your
words safely
» Basically, start by choosing the word carefully
» No matter what you do, making an i look like an
o is difficult
» So don’t choose words where you will have to
do that
» I use a tool called “Inkscape”. You could do this
with MS Paint or Photoshop as well

3. » Write down the word you want to work on,
and work on it one letter at a time
» Make the first letter look like the inverted
version of the last letter as much as possible
» Then the second letter like the second last
letter and so on
» Create a skeleton and then tweak the curves
to suit the word based on a trial and error
method.

4. » For this tutorial, I have chosen to make an
ambigram of the word “Sisters”
» Now, I write down the word on Inkscape, copy
and paste it, and then rotate it by 180 degrees.
» In a rotational ambigram, the original and the
inverted word look the same. So, our idea is to
write the letter in the original to match the
rotated version

5. » Letters S, N, H, I, O, Z, X, T are naturally
symmetric about certain axes
» So, since “SisterS” starts and ends with an S, we
will not have to worry about the first and last
letters.
» Also, since the “t” is the central letter, we will
not have to worry about rotating that either
» The next slide shows the “S”

7. » Now, we will have to look at the second letter.
» We need to make the “I” look like “r”
» If you look at the below image, the inverted r looks
like an i naturally, except for the dot
» The next slide shows it on the drawing

9. » The trickiest part of this word is making the s look
like an inverted e.
» When we normally write “S” or “s” it will not be
possible to make it look like an inverted “e”
» So, we will have to look at writing it in cursive. This
part of making an ambigram involves your
imagination. You can play with the ways you write s
to make it look like an inverted “e”
» To me, the loop in the inverted “e” can be made to
look like the loop in the cursive s
» This is what I have tried in the next slide

11. » “t” is invertible naturally, if written like a cross with a
long vertical stroke and a short horizontal stroke like
shown below

12. » Now I’ve put all the characters created into the word.
This will be the rough skeleton for the final image.
» The good ambigrams work when the letter spacing is
good, and when the letters look like they are part of
the same font family.
» So, there will be more work on this to bring it to the
final form

14. » Here is the recap
» Write down the word you want to work on, and work
on it one letter at a time
» Make the first letter look like the inverted version of
the last letter as much as possible
» Then the second letter like the second last letter and
so on
» Create a skeleton and then tweak the curves to suit
the word based on a trial and error method.

15. Thank you 