Font style help please, someone, anyone?

Question

http://lh6.ggpht.com/Luigioni/SDI6f418_X...

if you didn't get it, it says L u i g i

It's the same kind of font the " Iluminati" used in the book "Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown, where you can read it either "normally" and up-side down. and stills the same!

Like this one, too

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/roundup/an...

i read the entire book twice but i think it doesn't say anything about how is called that uncommon-unique kind of font. And i asked my english teacher (showing her the same picture) but she couldn't tell me either. help!!!

Answer 1

I think on the acknowledgements page at the front of the book, Dan Brown thanked the artist who produced the designs you mention. I don't remember his name, my copy is back in the library - check your own, then google his name and find out more.

Answer 2

links didn't work but I think the Iluminati font is amazing!  

Answer 3

The style of 'Illuminati' is an ambigram: a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation.

The book, Angels and Demons, contains several ambigrams created by 'John Langdon'.

http://www.johnlangdon.net/angelsanddemo...

The actual font style is probably Gothic or a Gothic variant..