OpenType fonts can define both forms via the "small caps" and the "petite caps" features. To differentiate between these two alternatives, the x-height form is sometimes called petite caps, preserving the name "small caps" for the larger variant.
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For example, in some Tiro Typeworks fonts, small caps glyphs are 30% larger than x-height, and 70% the height of full capitals. In fonts with relatively low x-height, however, small caps may be somewhat larger than this. Typically, the height of a small capital glyph will be one ex, the same height as most lowercase characters in the font. Well-designed small capitals are not simply scaled-down versions of normal capitals they normally retain the same stroke weight as other letters and have a wider aspect ratio for readability. Small caps can be used to draw attention to the opening phrase or line of a new section of text, or to provide an additional style in a dictionary entry where many parts must be typographically differentiated.
For example, the text "Text in small caps" appears as Text in small caps in small caps. Small caps are used in running text as a form of emphasis that is less dominant than all uppercase text, and as a method of emphasis or distinctiveness for text alongside or instead of italics, or when boldface is inappropriate. This is technically not a case-transformation, but a substitution of glyphs, although the effect is often approximated by case-transformation and scaling.
In typography, small caps (short for " small capitals") are lowercase characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters (capitals) but reduced in height and weight, close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures.
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