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Small Caps Generator

Convert text to small caps online. Copy and paste sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs letters into Instagram, Discord, and X bios without losing readability.

Example — type your own text above to convert it.

A small caps generator replaces lowercase letters with miniature capital letters, producing Hᴇʟʟᴏ Wᴏʀʟᴅ while leaving capitals at full height. It is the most readable of the Unicode text styles, because the letterforms are ordinary capitals.

Examples

InputOutput
Hello WorldHᴇʟʟᴏ Wᴏʀʟᴅ

When to use the Small Caps Generator

In real typography, small caps are used for acronyms inside body text, for the opening words of a chapter, and for stage directions — anywhere you want capitals that do not shout. Typographers reach for them because full capitals disrupt the even texture of a page.

Small caps are the safest of the Unicode styles for a bio. The glyphs are the phonetic alphabet's capital letters, which most fonts include, so they render reliably. They are also the closest to ordinary letterforms, so a screen reader is more likely to get them right.

Two letters have no small-capital form in Unicode: q and x. Rather than substitute a lookalike character from another script — which is what most generators do, and which can break search and moderation filters — this tool leaves them as ordinary lowercase. You will see the difference in a word like "quick".

Frequently asked questions

Why are q and x not converted to small caps?

Unicode never assigned a small capital Q or X. Other generators substitute lookalike characters from unrelated scripts, which can break search and moderation filters, so this tool leaves them as ordinary lowercase.

What happens to capital letters?

They stay at full height. That is what small caps means: lowercase letters drawn as capitals, with real capitals still standing taller.

Are small caps more readable than other fancy text?

Yes. The glyphs are ordinary capital letterforms, so most fonts render them correctly and screen readers handle them better than bold or cursive Unicode.