This is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram#Vertical_axis_reflection_ambigrams" class="extiw" title="w:Ambigram">vertical axis reflection ambigram</a>. These symmetrical words read Love / Fuck from left to right and from right to left. A heart in the middle separates the two words. All the 4 letters are shaped to create a visual palindrome. It is a funny message which puts love and sex on the same level. One of the two words in English comes from slang. This high resolution file can be printed on the paper for a specific publication or on the skin for a humorous tattoo or body painting.<br><p>Similar sexually connoted ambigrams have been published in books like <i>Ambigrams Revealed</i>, for example <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dWTaRp2-HDUC&amp;pg=PT294&amp;dq=love+fuck+ambigram+seb+lester&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjv-rH315T1AhWNbN4KHaR7A14Q6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"><i>Love Fuck</i></a> page 149 designed by professional calligrapher Seb Lester. The drawing <i>Sex, Drugs &amp; Rock n Roll</i> by artist Awang Purba, page 151, is also displayed on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51GLfWf+ZUL._AC_SY580_.jpg">the cover of the book</a> (at the upper left corner). And the artwork <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dribbble.com/shots/1778625-I-love">I love sex</a></i> produced by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nikitaprokhorov.com/ambigramsrevealed">the author of the publication</a>, is the same kind. As a result, this image released in the public domain could be used for similar purpose. Humor often helps to understand <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram#Calligraphy_and_typography" class="extiw" title="w:Ambigram">calligraphic tricks</a>.
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It is a humble artistic material to illustrate literary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/palindrome" class="extiw" title="w:palindrome">palindromes</a>, like <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Noon-Taxes-Whitman-American/dp/0807133116"><i>"Sex at noon taxes"</i></a> (14 letters that can be read forward and backward), by famous writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Van_Doren" class="extiw" title="w:Sally Van Doren">Sally Van Doren</a>, the title of the book containing poems on the same topic.
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2016-10-10
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