Small Caps Fonts

About Small Caps Fonts

Small caps fonts are designed in a way that an uppercase letter (capital letter) has the same height and weight as a normal lowercase letter like a, c, x, m, etc. would have. More exactly, it is designed slightly larger than the lowercase x-height. In typography, an x-height refers to the height of lowercase letters that have no ascenders and descenders. As in Latin alphabet, the lowercase x has horizontal serifs at both top and bottom so the height of x is used as the measurement.

Small caps, like italics or bold, is another way used in texts to show emphasis or distinctiveness. A lot of word processors like Microsoft Word have small caps option in the software, but if you simply use that option, you may not get true small caps. As the software itself only converts lowercase letters to small caps, so the weight of lowercase letter leaves, which is usually lighter than a uppercase, making the text in small caps look out of proportion.

The right way to achieve a small caps style is to use a font that has small caps character set. For a professional font with a small capital character set, every small capital letter is designed with proper weight and kerning compared to capitals, making the text balanced, strong and comfortable to be read. Microsoft’s Tahoma Small Caps is a font family in small caps style. Its small caps style comes in two weights: Regular and Bold.

Tahoma Small Caps by Microsoft

A few free fonts with small caps support are Alegreya by Juan Pablo del Peral, Aller Display by Dalton Maag Ltd, Andada by Huerta Tipográfica.

Create Text Graphics with Small Caps Fonts

The following tool will convert your text into graphics using small caps fonts. Simply enter your text, select a color and text effect, and hit GENERATE button. You can then save the image, or use the EMBED button to get image links.

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SELECT AN EFFECT
SELECT AN OUTLINE
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SELECT A COLOR
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