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Make your Instagram bio or Twitter name stand out with elegant small caps that grab attention without shouting.
Stylish Headings
Use small caps for headings in your documents, presentations, or websites for a professional, typographic look.
Email & Chat Signatures
Add a touch of class to your digital correspondence by formatting your name or title in small caps for a memorable sign-off.
The Ultimate Guide to Small Caps (FAQ)
Small capitals (or "small caps") are letters designed to look like uppercase capital letters, but they are shorter, typically the height of a lowercase 'x'. They offer a more refined and elegant way to create emphasis compared to using ALL CAPS, which can often feel like shouting at the reader.
This tool gives you two great options, each with its own advantages:
- Unicode Small Caps: These are special text characters. Their biggest advantage is portability. You can copy and paste them into social media bios (Instagram, Twitter), chat messages, and virtually any text field. They will appear as small caps everywhere. Choose this for maximum compatibility.
- Faux (CSS) Small Caps: This method generates HTML and CSS to style regular text. It converts letters to uppercase and shrinks the ones that were originally lowercase. The result is often visually cleaner as it uses your website's native font. This is best for use in a web editor or email client that accepts HTML pasting.
This is a great question. While search engines like Google are getting much better at interpreting Unicode characters, it's a best practice to use them for stylistic, non-critical text. For your main page titles, headings (H1, H2), and important keywords, you should stick to standard text.
Use Unicode small caps for social media profiles, comments, or decorative text on your page, but not for text you are relying on for search ranking.
Accessibility is crucial. Unfortunately, many screen readers (software used by visually impaired users) struggle with Unicode small caps. They may spell out the characters letter by letter or pronounce them incorrectly. For this reason, just like with SEO, you should avoid using Unicode small caps for important body text or navigation elements.
The Faux (CSS) method is generally more accessible because screen readers will simply read the underlying standard text.