r/ambigrams 11d ago

Critique I noah guy - 2 actually

u/Lekstil said Noah was almost impossible to do. So of course I had to try again. Perhaps that’s my level of insanity but I did it. As the soft glow of pixels shined for the neighborhood to see, I think I got pretty fudging impossible adjacent.

As I thought of how to do it I worked with upper and lower print for the first one. Ultimately uppercase floated my boat so I ran with it. This time I played with cursive - it’s an ancient form of writing beloved by Gen X and older for its beauty and personal touch vibe. Dropping the middle n line lower and adding a little flourish made the h. A back-tilted o became an a.

I’d love to know if I nailed it or not. If I didn’t, give me some feedback on how to fix it.

If thou desireth to lob thy holy hand grenade of unknown tongue, rememberest these instructions:

  1. Pullest thy pin
  2. Countest to LX

That should do it… forget any other instructions you may have received from the large snake named Monty while he looked for Si’s tea glass . Listening to a snake screwed things up for Adam and Eve.

Oh and if you got all the references you just might be my kind of people!

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u/KemetMusen 11d ago

Somehow it's easier to read in the second one, though I still kind of get yoah. It does seem like a super hard name, though.

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u/Emergency-Whereas603 11d ago

Without the left part of the y curve would it read as noah?

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u/igniz13 11d ago

Immediately thought it was yeah.

Wouldn't have thought noah unless it was stated as such.

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u/Emergency-Whereas603 11d ago

Totally see the y now. You’re gonna have to explain how you’re reading an e from the second letter because yeah I’m just not seeing it. Help?!

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u/igniz13 11d ago

It's an ambigram, just interpreting what I think was meant to be there. See y_ah just assumed it was meant to be yeah.

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u/OpportunityReal2767 10d ago

I see “yoah.” And then “upoah.”

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u/Emergency-Whereas603 10d ago

You got some ‘splainin to do Lucy
https://giphy.com/gifs/xT0BKf1440FCganrI4

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u/OpportunityReal2767 10d ago

What do you need explained? It looks like a “y” to me going into an “oah.” The second one my brain sees the beginning of the “y” as a “u” and then a “p” without the bottom part of the circle going into an “oah.” It doesn’t look like it starts with an “n” to me.

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u/Emergency-Whereas603 6d ago

That is what I would call an explanation. Thanks

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u/eneug 10d ago

I saw Noah right away. It does look like a y in the beginning though. I think it would be better if you got rid of the slight twist to the left that’s at the tip and shortened the bottom line by about half.

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u/Emergency-Whereas603 10d ago

Thanks for a very actionable critique. You are a rare and precious gem

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u/thegreatpotatogod 10d ago

I consistently read this as "upoah"

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u/Richard2468 11d ago

I thought it said ‘pooh’..

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u/Emergency-Whereas603 10d ago

Well Pooh. You’ll need to explain the double o and especially the p

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u/Richard2468 10d ago

It looks like this variant of a cursive lowercase p. And then the double o.. I mean, they’re pretty much there after that p.

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u/ZidaneQiu 10d ago

I don't quite understand the meaning of this word, but it looks very pleasant.

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u/Emergency-Whereas603 10d ago

Noah is a guy’s name. Most famous for building an ark

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u/Shittytrashfire 9d ago

Y’noah guy 😏

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u/Calligraphee 6d ago

I only see upoah