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Finial

A tapered terminal, curved rather than cut, of the kind that ends the arm of a lowercase e or a.

Finial: the e of eludet in Caslon's Double Pica roman, its arm tapering to a curved end.
Caslon's Double Pica roman, the e, William Caslon.
Public domainPublic domain: Caslon's broadsheet of about 1734, out of copyright everywhere since Caslon died in 1766; Commons tags the file public domain and a faithful photograph of a flat sheet carries no new copyright; this crop is two lines of the Double Pica roman carrying eludet and finem.
Cropped to two lines of the Double Pica roman. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Finial: the e and a of Baskerville's roman, their arms tapered.
Baskerville's roman, 1757, the e, John Baskerville, printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Baskerville's Virgil of 1757, out of copyright everywhere since Baskerville died in 1775; Commons tags the scan public domain and a faithful scan of a flat page carries no new copyright; this crop is three lines of the Eclogues, held for the e.
Page 24 of the scan, cropped to three lines, for the e. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Finial: certius atque in Jenson's roman of 1470, the c and the e ending in tapered curved terminals.
Finials in Jenson's roman, 1470, Nicolas Jenson, printer.
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Cropped to two words. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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what it isa terminal that tapers to a point rather than being cut
measured from the source, and the measurement is a nilthere is not one and there cannot bea stroke in this foundry carries a SINGLE SCALAR w. There is nowhere in the data to write a width that changes along a stroke, so this cannot exist here and its absence is the engine rather than an omission. read from the shelf's own stroke data rather than measured off its ink A finial and a ball terminal are the same fact read in opposite directions, which is why they have the same answer here