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In typography, any stroke which does not terminate in a serif is a terminal.^[1] By definition all sans-serif typefaces have terminals, and serif typefaces often have them as well. Spurs, ears, and swatches are all terminals, and hooks often end in terminals.

Types

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Terminals come in many types, including:

finial
ball
beak
teardrop

Typeface anatomy	Counter Diacritics Dingbat Glyph Ink trap Ligature Rotation Subscript and superscript Swash Text figures Tittle
Capitalization	All caps Camel case Initial Letter case Small caps Snake case Title case
Visual distinction	Blackboard bold Bold Color printing Italics Oblique Underline Whitespace
Horizontal aspects	Figure space Kerning Letter spacing Pitch Sentence spacing Thin space Word spacing
Vertical aspects	Ascender Baseline Body height Cap height Descender Mean line Overshoot x-height

Typeface
classifications

Roman type	Serif Antiqua Didone slab serif Sans-serif
Blackletter type	Bastarda Fraktur Rotunda Schwabacher
Gaelic type	Insular Uncial
Specialist	Record type Display typeface script fat face reverse-contrast