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Goudy Swash, a URW++ release of Goudy Old Style Italic (only) with swash caps. [124] Goudy also cut the matrices for Foster Abstract, an ultra-bold Art Deco block letter designed by his friend Robert Foster. 1931, Continental with matrices cut by Goudy and cast privately. [125] Goudy personally felt that the design 'violated every canon of type ...
A swash is a typographical flourish, such as an exaggerated serif, terminal, tail, entry stroke, etc., on a glyph. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The use of swash characters dates back to at least the 16th century, as they can be seen in Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi 's La Operina, which is dated 1522.
EB Garamond is a free and open source implementation of Claude Garamond’s typeface, Garamond, and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed by Robert Granjon. Its name is a shortening of Egenolff–Berner Garamond ; the letter forms are taken from the Egenolff–Berner specimen printed in 1592.
Caslon Old Face is a typeface with multiple optical sizes, including 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 60, 72, 96 points. Each font has small capitals, long esses and swash characters. The 96 point font came in roman only and without small capitals. Caslon Old Face was released in July 2001.
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Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
Fonts for swash and alternate characters were eventually released in OpenType versions of the fonts, [44] or separately as ITC Bookman Swash. ITC licensed the design to Adobe and Apple , guaranteeing its importance in digital printing by making it one of the core fonts of the PostScript page description language as part of the Adobe PostScript ...
Fallback font (freeware fallback font for Windows) Free UCS Outline Fonts aka FreeFont (free/open source, "FreeSerif" includes 3,914 glyphs in v1.52, MES-1 compliant) Gentium (free/open source, "Gentium Plus" includes over 5,500 glyphs in November 2010) GNU Unifont (free/open source, bitmapped glyphs are inclusive as defined in unicode-5.1 only)