How it works
Panama bubble letters on one sideways sheet in Fredoka. Six letters, and every second one is an a. With the P that makes four holes, and all four stay white in this font.
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Six sheets, four different letters
One letter per page, under More options, prints Panama as six upright sheets for a banner. Three of them are the same a, so with P, n and m there are only four shapes to color.
The canal, the isthmus and the islands
After a first print, open Panama words in bubble letters. Panama / City is the capital. Gatun / Lake is part of the Panama / Canal, made by damming the Chagres / River; Colón is at the canal's Caribbean end. Isthmus of / Panama names the land joining North and South America. Bocas / del Toro, Chiriquí and Darién are provinces. Volcán / Barú is the highest point, Coiba the largest island, and the San Blas / Islands number more than 350.
- Coiba and Colón, five letters each, print about a third taller than Panama on the same sheet.
- Chewy is the tallest of the six for this word and turns the four holes into dark marks; Hollow, under Look, opens them.
- In capitals PANAMA still has four holes, and only Mochiy Pop One keeps them all white.
Questions and answers
How do you draw Panama in bubble letters?
Write P, a, n, a, m, a in light pencil with room between the letters. Swell every stroke into a rounded shape, keep a ring in the P and in each of the three a's, go over the outside in pen and erase the pencil.
Is A man, a plan, a canal, Panama a palindrome?
Yes. Leave out the spaces, the commas and the capitals and the letters run the same in both directions. It is a well-known English palindrome and dates from 1948. The last ready word here prints it on three lines.
What does the name Panama mean?
Nobody knows for certain. A widely told legend makes it the name of a fishing village, meaning abundance of fish. Other theories point to the Panama tree, the national tree, or to a Guna word for far away.