How would you call the italic equivalent of serifs?

Ori Ben-Dor

I mean those small swashes at the ends of each "vertical" stem. Do they have a name?

Jasper de Waard

Tail?

George Thomas

Stroke?

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Appendix?  ;-)

Craig Eliason

Pothook serifs. Or instroke/outstroke. 

Andreas Stötzner

Serifs.

Ori Ben-Dor

Jasper de Waard said:

Tail?

Tail sounds like bottom. What would you call the top ones?

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Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

If you want your design to achieve its maximum potential, avoid "stroke". Language shapes thought.

Ori Ben-Dor

Thank you all!

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

FWIW thanks to @Ray Larabie I can now link to this:
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/33578/#Comment_33578

Thomas Phinney

Fwiw, I don’t disagree with Hrant that language shapes thought. Rather, I disagree that labeling these design features as “entry and exit strokes” is problematic. That is the origin of these things, and this is a very reasonable label as a result. One that is immediately comprehensible.

Nothing wrong with going beyond that into a discussion of notan and chirographic vs typographic forms, which I look forward to reading and discussing in that other thread, yay! But these particular features are very much chirographic in origin, so inventing some other word that requires teaching everyone what the word means would not really help communicate; quite the contrary, IMO.

Nick Shinn

Indeed, Thomas. And we still prefer the archaic “italic” (relating to the style’s origin) rather than “oblique”, “slanted” or “skewed”.

Thomas Phinney

To my mind, there are at least two different meanings among those four terms—perhaps even three.

Simon Cozens

I think Nick is saying that if you can make italics without visiting Italy, then you can have entry strokes and exit strokes without using a pen.

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Beau Williamson

It is not unheard of to just call them serifs. They come form the same brush entry strokes that shaped roman type in stone.

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Paraentrystrokes and paraexitstrokes. Alternatively, entryparastrokes and exitparastrokes.