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Small caps generator for X
Small caps are capital-shaped letters at the height of lowercase ones. They are quieter than all caps, and they come from phonetic alphabets, so they paste into X as plain text.
- Small caps · Capitals become small caps too41 / 280
ᴅᴇꜱɪɢɴᴇʀ ᴀᴛ ᴀ ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ꜱᴛᴜᴅɪᴏ
- Bold sans48 / 280
𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼
- Monospace48 / 280
𝙳𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘
- Double-struck48 / 280
𝔻𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕟𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕥 𝕒 𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠
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- Bold serif48 / 280
𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
- Italic serif · Numbers stay upright48 / 280
𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜
- Italic sans · Numbers stay upright48 / 280
𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰
- Bold italic serif · Numbers stay upright48 / 280
𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐
- Bold italic sans · Numbers stay upright48 / 280
𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤
- Cursive · Numbers stay plain48 / 280
𝒟ℯ𝓈𝒾ℊ𝓃ℯ𝓇 𝒶𝓉 𝒶 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓈𝓉𝓊𝒹𝒾ℴ
- Bold cursive · Numbers stay plain48 / 280
𝓓𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓰𝓷𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓽 𝓪 𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓸
- Gothic · Numbers stay plain48 / 280
𝔇𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔱 𝔞 𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔡𝔦𝔬
- Bold gothic · Numbers stay plain48 / 280
𝕯𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖌𝖓𝖊𝖗 𝖆𝖙 𝖆 𝖘𝖒𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖎𝖔
- Strikethrough48 / 280
D̶e̶s̶i̶g̶n̶e̶r̶ a̶t̶ a̶ s̶m̶a̶l̶l̶ s̶t̶u̶d̶i̶o̶
- Slashed through48 / 280
D̸e̸s̸i̸g̸n̸e̸r̸ a̸t̸ a̸ s̸m̸a̸l̸l̸ s̸t̸u̸d̸i̸o̸
- Underline48 / 280
D̲e̲s̲i̲g̲n̲e̲r̲ a̲t̲ a̲ s̲m̲a̲l̲l̲ s̲t̲u̲d̲i̲o̲
- Double underline48 / 280
D̳e̳s̳i̳g̳n̳e̳r̳ a̳t̳ a̳ s̳m̳a̳l̳l̳ s̳t̳u̳d̳i̳o̳
- Bubble48 / 280
Ⓓⓔⓢⓘⓖⓝⓔⓡ ⓐⓣ ⓐ ⓢⓜⓐⓛⓛ ⓢⓣⓤⓓⓘⓞ
- Dark bubble · Capitals only48 / 280
🅓🅔🅢🅘🅖🅝🅔🅡 🅐🅣 🅐 🅢🅜🅐🅛🅛 🅢🅣🅤🅓🅘🅞
- Squared · Capitals only48 / 280
🄳🄴🅂🄸🄶🄽🄴🅁 🄰🅃 🄰 🅂🄼🄰🄻🄻 🅂🅃🅄🄳🄸🄾
- Upside down29 / 280
oᴉpnʇs llɐɯs ɐ ʇɐ ɹǝuƃᴉsǝꓷ
- Vaporwave52 / 280
Ｄｅｓｉｇｎｅｒ ａｔ ａ ｓｍａｌｌ ｓｔｕｄｉｏ
When to use it
Small caps suit a bio line or a label: a job title, a location, a “currently” line. They read as polished without shouting the way capitals do.
They also work as a light heading inside a long post, where bold would be too heavy.
There is no full set of small capitals in Unicode. Q and X borrow close shapes, and a few letters come from different blocks, so the line can look slightly uneven in some fonts.
What styled text costs on X
These are not fonts in the usual sense. They are different characters that happen to look like styled letters, and X treats them that way.
| Where | Works | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Posts and replies | Yes | Each styled letter counts as 2 of your 280, so keep it to a line. |
| Display name | Yes | 50 characters at most, and styled letters use them twice as fast. |
| Bio | Yes | 160 characters. A styled job title or one styled word is plenty. |
| @handle | No | Handles only take plain letters, numbers and underscores. |
| Hashtags | No | A styled hashtag is not a hashtag. X won’t link it or count it. |
| Search | Poorly | Search looks for plain letters, so styled words are hard to find. |
The bigger cost is reading. Screen readers either skip these characters or read them out one by one, as in “mathematical bold capital H”. A styled word is fine. A styled post shuts out the people who listen to X rather than read it, and many people do. Keep the important part in plain text and use styles for decoration around it.
For the same reason, don’t put the point of a post in styled text. If the post only works when people can read the styled line, it doesn’t work for everyone. To see how much of the limit a whole post uses, paste it into the tweet character counter.
Questions
What are small caps?
Capital letters drawn at the height of lowercase ones. Books use them for abbreviations and the first words of a chapter.
Why does my capital letter become small too?
Small caps have no separate capitals, so every letter is set at the same small size. That even look is the point of the style.
Do small caps count double on X?
Partly. Many of these letters come from an older block that X counts as one; others count as two. The count under each style is the real one.
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