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Small caps. You could guess it already from the name, small caps are small capitals. Capitals which have the same height as lowercase characters.
你可能看名字就猜出來(lái)了，小型大寫(xiě)就是小號(hào)的大寫(xiě)字母。和小寫(xiě)字母一樣高度的大寫(xiě)字母。
Why are small caps needed? Because of several typographical reasons. First of all a whole word set in caps will look awful, it will drown out the rest of the text. Second, in lots of typefaces the capitals are not designed and spaced to work together, but to be followed by a lowercase character. Small caps however are designed to purely work together. They will give a more pleasurable, harmonized result.
為什么會(huì)需要小型大寫(xiě)？基于幾個(gè)排印上的原因。首先，全部設(shè)置大寫(xiě)的單詞看起來(lái)一塌糊涂，會(huì)讓所有文本湮沒(méi)其中，難以辨識(shí)。其次，大部分字體中的大寫(xiě)，根本就不是為大寫(xiě)連排而設(shè)計(jì)的，它們的大寫(xiě)字母間距是為后面跟隨小寫(xiě)字母而設(shè)計(jì)的。小型大寫(xiě)才是專(zhuān)為大寫(xiě)連排而設(shè)計(jì)的。它們會(huì)得到更舒服和諧的效果。
Having said that small capitals are capitals on x-height, it's mostly not 100% true. To optically give them the same height, the small caps will have to be slightly bigger than lowercase characters of the same font (see drawing).
前面說(shuō)小型大寫(xiě)是和小寫(xiě)字母一樣x-高度的大寫(xiě)字母，其實(shí)是不太準(zhǔn)確的。要得到和小寫(xiě)字母同樣的視覺(jué)高度，同字體的小型大寫(xiě)就必須比小寫(xiě)字母稍微的更大一些。
英文原文
本文鏈接：http://www.95time.cn/design/doc/2007/5153.asp 
出處：藍(lán)色理想
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