Experimental symmetrical typeface

Adam Jagosz

I took the challenge of desigining a naturally flowing, legible font where all or nearly all glyphs are horizontally symmetrical, as I thought Google query for "symmetrical font" returned unsatisfactory results. Its application could include vertical texts written on a glass pane or neon signs (a kind of totems) or maybe necklace pendants with names. Anyway, however impractical and useless the font is, it was fun making it.

Craig Eliason

Why the unconventional bar of /A/?

PabloImpallari

Quite difficult to read, but I completely love it!

Nick Shinn

That name is taken.
http://namecheck.fontdata.com/?q=artefact

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Worth pondering.
And effortless ambigrams of palindromes! :-)

BTW just in time for: http://prototype.typegallery.com/

Adam Jagosz

Craig Eliason said:

Why the unconventional bar of /A/?

That's a good question Possibly a remnant of my previous trial at this task where I wanted the /A to mimic the design of /S. It also takes after Corcaigh Gaelic type, as does lowercase /g. /B is also inspired by insular capitals. I know it all probably isn't working towards legibility...
I also had an angular version of that:

Thanks Pablo!
Nick, thank you for letting me know. I have a few other names in handy, I'll just go back and reconsider them.