True-Drawn Small Caps
There are quite a few font families that include “true-drawn” small caps, which are letterforms that have been totally redesigned as small caps specifically to match the proportions and thicknesses of the matching uppercase. OpenType fonts, which can contain thousands of characters, often include true-drawn small caps. In an application that knows what to do with OpenType, such as InDesign, using the keyboard shortcut to change text to small caps actually chooses the optically correct small cap characters.
Other font families with small caps may be called “expert” sets or perhaps “small cap” sets (see Chapter 8). The result creates an undisturbing, smooth, uniform tone throughout the text.
True-drawn small caps are specially ...
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