Swash (typography)

Swash - a typographical flourish found on some letterforms, particularly in italics. Article "Swash (typography)" in English Wikipedia has 43.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Swash (typography)", its content was written by 33 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 100 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 229 times in English Wikipedia and cited 376 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #44378 in September 2014
• Global: #42251 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #129264 in September 2014
• Global: #101160 in September 2020

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Schwung (Schrift)		57.5251
2	English (en) Swash (typography)		43.7917
3	Spanish (es) Swash (tipografía)		37.2862
4	Estonian (et) Ehiskeerd		20.361
5	French (fr) Lettre ornée		12.2364
6	Swedish (sv) Swash		3.6086
7	Italian (it) Svolazzo		3.0728
8	Dutch (nl) Sierkapitaal		2.7323

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Swash (typography)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Swash (typography)		383 007
2	German (de) Schwung (Schrift)		32 053
3	French (fr) Lettre ornée		31 634
4	Italian (it) Svolazzo		10 648
5	Swedish (sv) Swash		6 574
6	Dutch (nl) Sierkapitaal		5 474
7	Spanish (es) Swash (tipografía)		2 322
8	Estonian (et) Ehiskeerd		79

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Swash (typography)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Swash (typography)		1 911
2	German (de) Schwung (Schrift)		154
3	Spanish (es) Swash (tipografía)		84
4	French (fr) Lettre ornée		74
5	Italian (it) Svolazzo		25
6	Swedish (sv) Swash		20
7	Dutch (nl) Sierkapitaal		12
8	Estonian (et) Ehiskeerd		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Swash (typography)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Swash (typography)		33
2	German (de) Schwung (Schrift)		23
3	French (fr) Lettre ornée		19
4	Italian (it) Svolazzo		11
5	Dutch (nl) Sierkapitaal		6
6	Swedish (sv) Swash		5
7	Spanish (es) Swash (tipografía)		2
8	Estonian (et) Ehiskeerd		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Swash (typography)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schwung (Schrift)		0
2	English (en) Swash (typography)		0
3	Spanish (es) Swash (tipografía)		0
4	Estonian (et) Ehiskeerd		0
5	French (fr) Lettre ornée		0
6	Italian (it) Svolazzo		0
7	Dutch (nl) Sierkapitaal		0
8	Swedish (sv) Swash		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Swash (typography)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Swash (typography)		229
2	French (fr) Lettre ornée		69
3	German (de) Schwung (Schrift)		28
4	Estonian (et) Ehiskeerd		28
5	Spanish (es) Swash (tipografía)		9
6	Italian (it) Svolazzo		5
7	Swedish (sv) Swash		5
8	Dutch (nl) Sierkapitaal		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Schwung (Schrift)
en	English Swash (typography)
es	Spanish Swash (tipografía)
et	Estonian Ehiskeerd
fr	French Lettre ornée
it	Italian Svolazzo
nl	Dutch Sierkapitaal
sv	Swedish Swash

Best Rank

English: #129264 09.2014

Global: #101160 09.2020

Best Rank

English: #44378 09.2014

Global: #42251 09.2020

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