Question

What is a Swash? How is it different from ligatures?​

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Answer:

A swash is a typographical flourish on a glyph, like an exaggerated serif. ... Some of the characters in ligatures were called swash characters, even though they did not protrude to the space on either side of the piece of type, such as the tail of a capital “Q” passing under its succeeding “u