- Swash, or
forewash in geography, is a
turbulent layer of
water that
washes up on the
beach after an
incoming wave has broken. The
swash action can move...
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particularly large number.
Didone fonts with
swashes include Surveyor and ITC Bodoni. Sans-serif
fonts with
swashes are rarer, but some were
released in the...
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Exponents Smart Swashes swsh, cswh Word
Initial Swashes Word
Final Swashes Line
Initial Swashes Line
Final Swashes falt Non-Final
Swashes jalt
Style Options...
- handwritten,
cursive style,
possibly using ligatures more
commonly or
gaining swashes.
Although rarely encountered, a
typographic face may be
accompanied by...
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terminals of the "N", "r", and "s" were
intentionally exaggerated into
swashes. The
nameplate in the
January 15, 1894,
issue trimmed the
terminals once...
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sharply slanted. The "Q", "T", "v", "w" and "z" all have
flourishes or
swashes in the
original design,
something not all
revivals follow. The
italic "J"...
- used –
another influence from calligraphy – and upper-case
letters may have
swashes,
flourishes inspired by
ornate calligraphy. Historically,
italics were...
- Italic,
inspired by
Aldine designs.
Goudy Cursive, a "loose italic"
adding swashes and more
calligraphic alternate characters.
Missing from most digitisations...
- word-final
swash form, j, came to be used for the consonant, with the un-
swashed form
restricted to
vowel use. Such
conventions were
erratic for centuries...
- and in the late
renaissance could have been
written with
flourishes and
swashes.
Italic hand
developed into
Cancelleresca (chancery)
corsiva (also an italic...
