Extended strokes, especially on italic style fonts, which extend far beyond the normal vertical and horizontal extent of a character, typical of cursive, decorative or fantasy fonts
{i} splash of a liquid; sound of liquid splashing; piece of land over which waves flow, sandbank; narrow channel through which tides flow; boastful manner, insolent behavior
A flourished letterform True italics are usually swash Some swash letters carry extra flourishes; others simply occupy an abnormally large ration of space Swash letters are usually cursive and swash typefaces therefore usually italic True italic capitals (as distinct from sloped roman capitals) are usually swash Hermann Zapf's Zapf Renaissance italic and Robert Slimbach's Poetica are faces in which the swash extends to the lower case