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    Bradley M. Kühn (bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 14:27:52 JSTBradley M. KühnBradley M. Kühn
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    • Richard Fontana

    & apparently in official documents one wrote proper names in “Sᴍᴀʟʟ Cᴀᴘs” font. So, the Commonwealth's name is “Mᴀssᴀᴄʜᴜsᴇᴛᴛs” and not Maſſachuſetts.🤔

    Meanwhile, TIL that Leslie Lamport did not invent Sᴍᴀʟʟ Cᴀᴘs for LaTeX,. It's apparently been “a thing” since 1516? 😳 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps#History> Welp, I knew its invention date within ± ½ a millennium. 🤷

    & @richardfontana notes it's 3-swash for Maſſachuſetts, so I had it wrong bf. anyway.
    🤦…q.e.d.: I should put down the ſ & back away slowly…

    In conversationabout a year ago from fedi.copyleft.orgpermalink

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      Small caps
      In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. 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. For example, the text "Text in small caps" appears as Text in small caps in small caps. 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. 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. Typically, the height of a small capital glyph will be one ex, the same height as most lowercase characters in the font. In fonts with relatively low x-height, however...
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