Small Caps
Convert lowercase letters to ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs Unicode glyphs that survive copy-paste anywhere.
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About Small Caps
Small caps style — uppercase shapes at lowercase x-height — is a classic typographic effect found in book chapter headings and acronyms. Unicode includes a near-complete set of small-caps Latin letters (mostly in the IPA Extensions and Phonetic Extensions blocks), letting you produce the effect anywhere CSS isn't available.
When to use it
- Creating elegant display text in profile bios and headlines
- Producing book-style acronym rendering in chat messages
- Decorating headers in platforms that don't support markdown
- Producing pseudo-bold emphasis with a different visual weight
How it works
Lowercase letters are mapped to small-caps Latin glyphs. Uppercase letters and other characters are unchanged. Most letters have a true small-caps form in Unicode (ᴀ ʙ ᴄ ᴅ ᴇ…). A few — q, x, z — fall back to similar-looking small letters where Unicode lacks a dedicated small-cap.
Examples
Uppercase preserved; lowercase becomes small caps
Hello World
Hᴇʟʟᴏ Wᴏʀʟᴅ
Frequently asked questions
- Which letters have a true small-cap form?
- Most do: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p r s t u v w y. The letters q, x, and z lack a dedicated small-caps form in Unicode and either fall back to the lowercase character or use a close approximation.
- Why use Unicode small caps instead of CSS font-variant?
- CSS only works in environments that render styles. Unicode small caps are real characters that survive paste into Twitter, LinkedIn, Discord, Slack, and anywhere else CSS gets stripped.
- Is it accessible?
- No. The small-caps glyphs are in the IPA Extensions block, intended for phonetic transcription. Screen readers may narrate them as phonetic symbols, producing odd-sounding output. Decorative use only.