The Spine

The main part of the letter S (lower and upper case) is the spine - the left to right curve.

The orange selection is the spine. Font - Lucida Handwriting Italic. (And yeah, I couldn't resist adding snake eyes and a tongue.)

And just to drive home a better visual so you can remember, I drew a spine onto a letter S (Font - Birch). And then added some texture in Photoshop. Because I'm just hardcore like that.

images © Kelci Stephenson 2011