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A question about script
Posted by lemieuxster in
17 Nov 2005 — 9:01pm
17 Nov 2005 — 9:01pm
Question: What are those fancy scribbles at the end of peoples signatures, or sometimes script type called?
I have looked everywhere possible and I haven't been able to find an answer. I feel like I should know what they are called and even though I am no novice to design I am at a loss. Ultimate brain fart of the century. Feel free to point your finger and laugh.
-Thanks
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17 Nov 2005 — 9:13pm
'Swash', or 'Swashy Endings', maybe.? :)
Dav, formlos
17 Nov 2005 — 9:16pm
...or flourish.
18 Nov 2005 — 6:49am
yeah, thanks. It was so obvious too.
they both seem to be right. swash; flourish - étendre.
-Lems
18 Nov 2005 — 7:11am
Isn't Swash when it is part of a cap letterform and Flourish when it is something added besides the glyph?
ChrisL
18 Nov 2005 — 3:14pm
Perhaps those were their original definitions, Chris. Lately I see them all used interchangeably and I'm not really opposed to it.
18 Nov 2005 — 3:19pm
Moxon states,
"Rightly indicated, the extravagant extenders and tails on capital letters shall, by every good man of taste and discernment, be known as Those Deely Things."
18 Nov 2005 — 3:35pm
"I see them all used interchangeably and I’m not really opposed to it."
It is kind of like the the current use of the word "Logo" which is no-longer a word mark or even an acronym but any and all "Deely Things" used as identifiers for businesses or entities.
I guess we are all trying to be "good men of taste and discernment," :-)
ChrisL
18 Nov 2005 — 3:37pm
I'd say flourish. But I'm a mean old dogmatic broad.
18 Nov 2005 — 3:52pm
"I’d say flourish. But I’m a mean old dogmatic broad."
Somehow that still sounds better than “good men of taste and discernment,” :-)
ChrisL
18 Nov 2005 — 4:03pm
>I guess we are all trying to be “good men of taste and discernment,” :-)
Yup, momma don' low no deely-bobbin' roun' heah.
18 Nov 2005 — 4:24pm
But we don't care whut momma don' 'low, we gonna deely-bobbin inny how :-)
ChrisL