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Swash caps? Admitting that it's not the most urgent issue to learn in typography, it's interesting to quickly pay attention to this topic. Not every font family has a Swash variant. Most common are swash capitals, but also swash lowercase characters and swash-beginnings and -endings exist.
我承認，這不是學(xué)習(xí)字體設(shè)計最迫切需要了解的一節(jié)，但是這個話題很有趣，我們稍稍關(guān)注一下就好了。不是所有的字體家族都包含有花式的變體。最常見的一般是花式大寫，但同樣也有花式的小寫以及花式的首字和尾字。
Sometimes you want to set a whole line in capitals. It's possible to do this with roman capitals, although sometimes it's better to choose small capitals which are designed for this purpose. Roman capitals are not, but mostly they don't cause problems. Swash capitals however do. Swash capitals are mostly designed to give some extra visual pleasure to your designs. The caps are meant to be followed by lowercase characters (number 1), or used as an initial (number 2), but not to be combined with eachother. Only with some fonts it's possible to combine swash capitals with normal roman caps (number 3).
有時候你想要設(shè)置整行的大寫�？梢杂么髮懻w來完成這一任務(wù)，雖然小型大寫可能是更好的選擇——那才是為此而設(shè)計的。大寫正體不是為了大寫連排而設(shè)計的，但多數(shù)情況下它們也不會造成麻煩。而花式大寫就不一樣。花式大寫的設(shè)計目的通常是用來為設(shè)計增添一些額外的視覺愉悅。其大寫是為后面跟隨小寫字母而設(shè)計的（圖1），或是用于首字下沉排版（圖2），但絕非用于大寫連排。只有某些特定的字體才有可能出現(xiàn)花式大寫與普通正體大寫的連排（圖3）。
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出處：藍色理想
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