How it works
This small caps generator swaps each letter you type for a Unicode character shaped like a capital cut down to size. There are 25 small capitals, spread over three blocks of the standard, and one gap: Unicode has no small capital X, so your x stays plain. The result is ordinary text that you copy and paste. All 26 rows are listed below with their code points.
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Type, copy, mind the capitals
Type or paste a line in Your text and the letters change as you go. A capital becomes a small capital too, so every letter lands at one height and Six Quiet Foxes loses its tall S, Q and F. Small caps in print keep those tall. For that look, press Copy, paste, then retype the first letters as real capitals. Accents stay on their letters, and digits and punctuation pass through unchanged.
Choose words that show the change
Each swap is one character for one character, so a 20-letter name is still 20 characters. A site that counts bytes is stricter: a small capital takes two or three bytes where a plain letter takes one. Legibility is the bigger worry. In most fonts the small capitals for c, o, s, v, w and z look almost exactly like the plain letters. The x never changes. So zoo barely moves, while danger changes in every letter. The newest three, q, f and s, show as empty boxes on some devices.
Send it, fit it, copy one letter
Share copies a link that rebuilds your line for whoever opens it. Under More options, Check it fits takes a character limit and marks a result that runs over. A tap on any letter in the table copies it alone. This page has no way back to plain letters. If the missing x bothers you, the bubble text generator has a circle for every letter, x included.
Tips
- After pasting, retype each first letter as a real capital. A tall first letter before small capital E, A and R looks like print, and a line of only small capitals looks like a lowered voice.
- Test with a word that visibly changes. Small capital O, V, W and Z look like their plain selves in most fonts, and x is never swapped, so wow proves nothing.
- If a friend sees an empty box, suspect small capital Q. It arrived in 2018, ten years after small capital F and S.
- Do not upper-case the result. Small capital I and small capital R have capital partners, so an app that capitalises a name changes those two and no others.
- Keep anything people must search for in plain letters. Small capital G is a phonetic letter, not a styled g, so a search for the plain word misses it.
Questions and answers
How does a small caps generator work?
It replaces letters. For each letter, capital or small, it looks up a separate Unicode character shaped like a short capital. No formatting is involved, which is why the result survives a box with no font menu. A word processor does the opposite: it keeps the letters and draws them smaller, which is what Unicode's own note on these characters recommends for general text.
Why is there no small capital X?
Nobody set out to encode a small caps alphabet. Each letter arrived when some notation needed it. Eight were in Unicode by 1993 for the International Phonetic Alphabet, where small capital G and R are sounds distinct from g and r. Fourteen followed in 2003, in a block that is mostly for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, then F and S for medievalists in 2008 and Q in 2018. No X has joined them.
Is small caps text upper case or lower case?
Lower case, as far as software is concerned. All 25 characters are classed as lowercase letters, so sorting and spell checking treat them as small letters from an unfamiliar alphabet. Only two have a capital partner: small capital I upper-cases to U+A7AE, and small capital R to U+01A6, a letter named yr.
Why do some letters show as boxes or look mismatched?
Your device draws each character with whichever font has it. The 25 small capitals sit in three blocks that fonts cover unevenly, so one word can come out in letters from two fonts, slightly different in weight. An empty box means no font on the device has the character.
Can small caps be turned back into normal text?
Yes in principle, since each small capital maps to exactly one letter, but not on this page. Most software will not either: Unicode gives these characters no decomposition to the plain letter, so the normalization that turns a circled A back into A leaves them untouched. Wikipedia's article on small caps notes that search tools and screen readers generally fail to recognise them.