Small Caps Generator
Type anything to get ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ text, capital letters in a small size, ready to copy and paste into Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X and games. Writing in Word or Google Docs instead? The shortcut and setting for every app are below.
Small Caps in 20 Seconds
- For bios, names and chats: type in the box above and copy any ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ style. It pastes into Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, X and most games.
- Microsoft Word: select the text and press Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows or Cmd+Shift+K on a Mac.
- Google Docs: there is no small caps button. Paste Unicode small caps from this page, or pick a font with SC in its name.
- Websites: use the CSS rule
font-variant: small-caps; - Two letters have no small caps version: q and x stay as normal lowercase letters.
Choose How Your Small Caps Look
Most small caps generators turn every letter small. Real typesetting does not work like that, so here you get three modes. Keep your capitals tall like a printed book, capitalise each word, or go fully small. Then copy plain text for apps or a CSS snippet for your website.
What Are Small Caps?
Small caps are capital letters drawn at roughly the height of a lowercase letter. So instead of SHOUTING IN BIG CAPITALS, your words look like ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ: the shape of a capital, the size of a small letter. That is also why people search for them as small capital letters or capital letters in small size.
Book designers have used them for ages in headings, acronyms and the first few words of a chapter, because they look calm and organised. Online, a small caps font has become a favourite for Instagram usernames, Discord nicknames and gaming tags. It looks neat and a little elegant without screaming at anyone.
One thing to know: this small caps generator does not actually change your font. It swaps each letter for a matching Unicode character, which is why the result is real text you can copy and paste almost anywhere.
Small Caps vs All Caps vs Lowercase
These three get mixed up all the time. Here is the difference in one look.
Full size capitals. Loud, good for warnings.
Capital shapes at lowercase height. Clean and quiet.
Ordinary small letters. Casual and friendly.
Want to go from all caps to small caps? Paste your CAPITAL text into the generator above. It handles capitals and lowercase the same way, so ALL CAPS turns straight into ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ.
Real Small Caps vs Fake Small Caps
Word processors and design apps do small caps in two ways, and you can usually tell them apart. A real small caps font has its own specially drawn small capitals, with strokes just as thick as the full capitals. When an app fakes it, it simply shrinks normal capitals, so the lines come out thin, pale and a bit wobbly next to the rest of the text.
Real small caps
- Drawn by the type designer
- Same stroke weight as capitals
- Found in fonts with SC in the name, like Alegreya SC or Playfair Display SC
Fake small caps
- Regular capitals scaled down
- Thinner, lighter strokes
- What most apps do when a font has no small caps of its own
Unicode small caps, the kind this tool makes, are a third option. They are separate characters, so they look the same in every app that supports them, with no font settings needed.
How to Do Small Caps in Word
Small caps come built into Microsoft Word, so for documents you can skip the generator. Here is how to apply small caps in Word:
- Highlight the text you want to change.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows or Cmd+Shift+K on a Mac.
- Prefer menus? Press Ctrl+D to open the Font dialog and tick Small caps.
- To switch small caps off in Word, select the text and press the same shortcut again.
Word keeps any letter you typed as a capital at full height and shrinks the rest, which is the classic book look. If everything turns small, check that Caps Lock was off when you typed.
How to Do Small Caps in Google Docs
Google Docs is a little trickier, because there is no small caps button anywhere in the menus. You still have three easy ways to get small caps in Google Docs:
Paste Unicode
Make your text in the generator above and paste it in. Fastest option, and it stays in place when you share the doc.
Use an SC font
Open the font list, choose More fonts and search for SC. Fonts like Alegreya SC and Playfair Display SC have small capitals built in.
Fake it by hand
Type in capitals, then make the letters after the first one a couple of sizes smaller. Fine for a short heading.
Small Caps Shortcut and Setting for Every App
| App | Windows | Mac | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Word | Ctrl+Shift+K | Cmd+Shift+K | Or Ctrl+D, then tick Small caps |
| Google Docs | No shortcut | No shortcut | Paste Unicode or use an SC font |
| Adobe InDesign | Ctrl+Shift+H | Cmd+Shift+H | Uses real small caps when the font has them |
| Websites (CSS) | font-variant: small-caps; | font-variant: small-caps; | all-small-caps makes capitals small too |
| Excel and Google Sheets | No option | No option | Paste Unicode small caps into the cell |
| Canva | No toggle | No toggle | Pick a font with small caps or paste Unicode |
| Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X | No shortcut | No shortcut | Copy and paste from the generator above |
Small Caps Alphabet to Copy and Paste
Need one letter? Here is every small caps letter with its Unicode code. Q and X have no small caps version in Unicode, so the normal lowercase letter is used instead.
| Letter | Small cap | Unicode | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | ᴀ | U+1D00 | |
| B | ʙ | U+0299 | |
| C | ᴄ | U+1D04 | |
| D | ᴅ | U+1D05 | |
| E | ᴇ | U+1D07 | |
| F | ꜰ | U+A730 | |
| G | ɢ | U+0262 | |
| H | ʜ | U+029C | |
| I | ɪ | U+026A | |
| J | ᴊ | U+1D0A | |
| K | ᴋ | U+1D0B | |
| L | ʟ | U+029F | |
| M | ᴍ | U+1D0D | |
| N | ɴ | U+0274 | |
| O | ᴏ | U+1D0F | |
| P | ᴘ | U+1D18 | |
| Q | q | none | |
| R | ʀ | U+0280 | |
| S | ꜱ | U+A731 | |
| T | ᴛ | U+1D1B | |
| U | ᴜ | U+1D1C | |
| V | ᴠ | U+1D20 | |
| W | ᴡ | U+1D21 | |
| X | x | none | |
| Y | ʏ | U+028F | |
| Z | ᴢ | U+1D22 |
Small Caps Copy and Paste Ideas
Small caps work best on short lines: a name, one line of a bio, a highlight cover. Copy one of these or make your own above.
Where Small Caps Text Works
Unicode small caps paste into nearly every app with a text box: Instagram bios and display names, TikTok, Discord names and messages, Facebook, X, WhatsApp and many games. The only gaps are the two missing letters, q and x, which stay lowercase. Most readers never even notice.
Works well
- Instagram name and bio
- Discord nickname and About Me
- TikTok bio and captions
- Game names that allow symbols
Use with care
- @usernames, which only allow normal letters
- Passwords and email addresses
- Anything that must be searchable
- Text that screen readers need to read aloud
Looking for even tinier letters? Try superscript and subscript in the small text generator. For a full styled name, mix small caps with symbols in the aesthetic font generator, or browse every style in the main font generator.
Turn Small Caps Back Into Normal Text
Copied a name in small caps and need the plain letters back, for a search or a form? Paste it here.
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