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David Hamuel

From infoplease.com:

swash �n.
5. Print. an extending ornamental flourish, as on letters of certain fonts of italic or cursive type.

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ok so maybe there is just one of us!

anyway, so i wondering then if a swash is an extension of handwriting (which i believe it is, correct me if i'm wrong) then would the loop that falls below the baseline of a lowercase f be considered a swash in a script typeface? or would a swash only refer the the ornimental gestures generally found in caps?

The lower part of a script f would not normally be a swash, unless it was unusually flamboyant. Generally swashes are extra/alternate characters for a Script font, and while they are most often embellishments of the upper case letters, they could also be special beginning or ending flourishes on lower case letters. Adobe Bickham is a good example of a font with both kinds of swashes. See attached.