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Serifs with Swashes
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Serif typefaces with swash or decorative glyphs for display work or embellishing text. These alternate forms are typically ornamental capitals or long-tailed ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘n’, ‘r’, ‘t’ and ‘z’ letters for ending a line with a flourish. Many of these fonts are available in OpenType which is recommended for the most convenient access to alternate glyphs.

A note on the families at the bottom of this page: to view swashes and alternates in some OpenType fonts you may be need to click through to their Single Font pages. Some families in legacy formats store their swashes and alternates in “Alt” or “Expert” fonts.