Swashes On Caps
By: MACK
Dating back to the 16th century, swashes are a typographical flourish on uppercase letters. They can have extra long tails on the end of the letter or an extra line just to make the letter more appealing, or it can make it look unnecessarily gaudy.
"AKQA" By: Dana Tanamachi
http://dribbble.com/shots/496632-AKQA-NYC?list=searches
As you can see with this lettering there drastically added longer tails to the begging letters of the quote "The Future Inspires Us" Also adding artistic designs like the ones in the corners of the chalkboard are seen in a lot of works of Swashes.
"Fresh & Foolish" By: Simon Alander
http://dribbble.com/shots/623596-Fresh-Foolish-sketch?list=searches
In this picture you can see the extra lines drawn underneath the words that are attached the the H to keep the image flowing.
"Who's Afraid of Barry?" By: Sebastian Boros
http://dribbble.com/shots/489297-Who-s-afraid-of-Barry?list=searches
In this picture they use swashes to make the sign more appealing to look at. The author used this to keep the flourishes without any contrast, just like wires, to resemble with the simple hairline serif.
"Grandesque Caps" By: Julian Hrankov
http://dribbble.com/shots/239138-Grandesque-Caps?list=searches
The use of the different tails in the picture above enhances the lettering. This shows that there is more then one way to use the letter Q when doing swashes.
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