What do you call the part that sticks out of a capital Q? Is there a name for it? What would you refer to it as if you were designing something and needed to write about that part of the q?
Typophile
What do you call the tip of a capital Q?
Tail.
Thanks I was going to call it the tail or leg and wasn't sure if either was correct.
If you want to be really fancy, you can say cauda – but that’s just Latin for tail.
If it is a particularly tailish tail, I would go with caudissima .
André
Q-tip
While the original poster's second post might have inspired someone to cite an anecdote concerning Abraham Lincoln, I think it's entirely reasonable to wonder if there wasn't some specific technical name for the stroke which distinguishes a Q from an O. Appendage, terminus, cauda, tail... or some other word, unique to the rarefied reaches of typography.
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