Example
Handmade in Vancouver
ʜᴀɴᴅᴍᴀᴅᴇ ɪɴ ᴠᴀɴᴄᴏᴜᴠᴇʀ
How it works
Small caps use phonetic letters that look like tiny capitals. Unicode doesn’t have a small capital for every letter, so a few are approximations (x uses a regular x, and q uses ǫ). Tiny text uses superscript letters.
Things to know
Screen readers may read these characters oddly or skip them, and search engines don’t treat them as ordinary words. Use them for a word or two of emphasis, not for whole posts, usernames you want people to search for, or anything that needs to be accessible.
Small caps vs. tiny text
Small caps (ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ) are letters shaped like capitals but about the height of lowercase letters. They are popular in bios and display names because they look tidy and distinctive. Tiny text (ᵗⁱⁿʸ) uses raised superscript letters; it looks like a whisper and works best for a short aside.
Real small caps in documents
For a document, use the real small caps setting instead. In Word it’s in the Font dialog (Ctrl+D) or Ctrl+Shift+K, and most design apps have a small caps option. Real small caps keep the actual letters, so spelling checks and search still work.