Small caps generator

Small capitals are capital letter shapes drawn at roughly the height of lowercase letters. Typographers use them for acronyms that would otherwise shout (NASA, FBI), for AM and PM, for the first words of a chapter, and in many English Bibles, where LORD is set in small caps. The result looks calm and formal, which is why small caps are popular for minimal, aesthetic bios on social media.

The generator shows two rows first: small caps (ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ) and tiny superscript letters (ᵗʰⁱˢ), which sit higher and look even smaller. Every other style is under All styles.

Unicode has no single small caps alphabet. The generator assembles one from phonetic letters scattered across several blocks:

Block	Examples
IPA Extensions	ʙ ɢ ʜ ɪ ʟ ɴ ʀ ʏ
Phonetic Extensions	ᴀ ᴄ ᴅ ᴇ ᴊ ᴋ ᴍ ᴏ ᴘ ᴛ ᴜ ᴠ ᴡ ᴢ
Latin Extended-D	ꜰ ꜱ

Two letters don't fit the pattern. A small capital q exists only as a rare phonetic letter that many fonts lack, so the tool uses the look-alike ǫ. There is no standard small capital x, so x stays a normal lowercase x, which happens to have the right height anyway. Because these letters were designed for linguists, a few may sit a hair higher or look slightly heavier than the rest, depending on the font.

In a document or on a web page, don't paste Unicode small caps. Use the font feature instead: the text stays real letters, so spell check, search and screen readers all work.

• Microsoft Word for Windows: select the text, open the Font dialog (Ctrl+D) and check Small caps, or press Ctrl+Shift+K.
• Word for Mac: Format → Font → Small caps, or Cmd+Shift+K.
• CSS: font-variant: small-caps; for lowercase letters, or font-variant-caps: all-small-caps; to shrink capitals too.

The Unicode version is for places that strip formatting: Instagram, TikTok and X bios, Discord nicknames, game names and comment boxes.

The tool's compatibility marks cover Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Facebook and X. Each mark says either works or may break, meaning some devices could draw empty boxes or the app could shorten the text. They are informed guesses from the characters' Unicode versions and widely installed fonts; apps change, so look at your profile once it is saved.

Small caps are mostly old characters and display on current phones and computers. They still can't be used in @usernames, and Facebook does not accept them in profile names; posts and comments work.

To your eyes, ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ is a word. To a screen reader it is five unrelated phonetic letters, which may be read as "latin letter small capital s" and so on, or left out. Click How a screen reader may hear it to see the names for the first characters of your text. Search engines and in-app search also usually miss small caps words.

So use small caps for a short tagline or a section label, and write your name, links, prices and hashtags in ordinary letters.

Accented letters have no small capital forms; the tool can put the accent on top as a combining mark or leave those letters plain. The counter reports characters and UTF-16 code units; most small caps use one unit each, which keeps them friendlier to the 150-character Instagram bio than math-style letters. Nothing you type leaves the page.