I still love to draw these:
Finials — the finishing stroke on a letterform.
Here’s one:
f
Even yesterday. One, long, calligraphic finial — standing there, alone:
b
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finial (FIN-ee-ehl, FI-nee-) noun
1. An ornamental object on top of an architectural structure or a piece
of furniture.
2. A curve at the end of the main stroke of a character in some italic
fonts.
[From Middle English finial (final), from Latin finis (end).]
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