Typophile

(x) Looking for ornate/vintage fonts with swashes - various {gang}

Henry Aldridge

I absolutely love Veer's Bookman Swash and I'm wondering if anyone knows any similarly ornate/vintage fonts out there.

Rainer Zerenko

Cabernet

And I recently got in contact to the digitized Cooper Black Swash Italic

Goudy Two Shoes

fmiles

Marion.

Rainer Zerenko

And you may want to look at these threads:
http://typophile.com/node/19756
http://typophile.com/node/13769
http://typophile.com/node/2782

Stephen Coles

Many of these go a little overboard on the frills. For a judicious use of swashes, see Matthew Carter's Galliard.

Stephen Coles

Of course, if you want to be obvious about the excessive flourishing, see Incognito and Zanzibar by Gábor Kóthay.

Henry Aldridge

Brilliant! Thanks a million!

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