I received this very nice link to a tool which let’s you write upside down via Adam Hayes; it basically allows anyone to switch characters from a text string into either ones which looks like or have been effectively drawn upside down (reversed 180°) in the characters table. In order to see the effect, you have to use a special font (pre-installed), a unicode compatible – no big business it’s pretty much a standard nowadays.
u -> n (using the “normal” n latin letter)
o -> o (staying the same)
y -> λ (using the greek letter lambda, whose html code is λ – it might use sometime characters designed with specific purposes like the phonetical alphabet)
Not only it is a very nice feature to show off on iChat or Msn, it’s also remembering me experience like the MITIM browser from Pierre which make a fair and clever use of simple technology at our direct disposal to explore the territories enlightened by Ryan Gander and his MITIM.
image found on The Store’s website, Ryan Gander MITIM poster.
[...] (where Stuart Baileys a bit more than involved) and created a word: the Mitim, which I spoke about upside down. Ryan Gander wrote an exquisite short article about the ‘How To Work Better’ in ‘Working it [...]
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