Swash
An extended decorative stroke on a letter, drawn as an alternate rather than as the default, and meant to be used once rather than in a row.
Public domain
Public domain: A broadsheet printed by William Caslon about 1734; Caslon died in 1766 and the sheet is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain sheet as carrying no new copyright.Near it
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Finial
What it is made of
| measured on this shelf, and the measurement is a nil | no file on the shelf carries swsh, because none of the 84 carries a GSUB table | read off all 84 files on the shelf with fontTools |
| so nothing on a page of ours can ask for it | setting a swash form through CSS or through the font stack does nothing on any face this house ships | there is no GSUB table in ANY of the 84 files, so the OpenType feature that would carry this cannot be reached at all: it is absent, not merely unused |
| what this entry therefore describes | the thing itself, not our version of it | UNMEASURED against our own work, and said so rather than illustrated with a face that has none |