From the course: Font Secrets: Elevate Your Typographic Game

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Small caps

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- [Instructor] A commonly used open type feature is small caps, and something that distinguishes a Pro font from a standard font is the availability of real small caps. These are distinct glyphs as tall as the lowercase letters, or X height. Because fake small caps are scaled-down versions of the capitals, their strokes are also scaled, meaning that they look thin when set alongside upper and lowercase text. When you click the small caps button, that's what you will get. You'll get real small caps if available in the font. There is also the option to use all small caps. Let's see how these can be applied in a paragraph of text. So here is a paragraph with numerous acronyms, and I want those to be in small caps. Now because there are so many, and let's imagine we are working with a long body of text, to do this on a case-by-case basis would be very labor intensive. We want the small caps to be spaced. So I have created a character style called small caps. Let's just take a look at the…

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