Petite Caps - CSS Typography | CSS: Presentation Layer

Standards Based Development

Petite Caps also known as petite capitals are a stylistic letter form, a variant of small caps. Like small caps, petite caps take the shape of upper-case (capital) letters, and are usually of appropriate optical weight to harmonize with other text. However, petite caps are smaller still than small caps, typically half the height of the fonts capital letters.

OpenType Font Features pcap and c2pc

OpenType provides support for transformations from normal letters to petite caps by two feature tags: pcap and c2pc.

pcap indicates how to transform lower-case letters to petite caps.

c2pc indicates how to transform upper-case letters to petite caps.

Small Caps, Petite Caps, and Italic used for Emphasis
Small Caps, Petite Caps, and Italic used for Emphasis

Fonts for Petite Caps/Small Caps

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