: Opentype/Truetype fonts can embed a small-caps variant of the font inside the same font, and this can be activated using Opentype typographic features (which can be embedded into any Truetype,

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Opentype/Truetype fonts can embed a small-caps variant of the font inside the same font, and this can be activated using Opentype typographic features (which can be embedded into any Truetype, Opentype or derived font including WOFF and EOT).

So you would use the "Black" font, but activate the "smcp" Opentype feature in whatever software you're using. It'll probably be called "Small Caps" if you're using graphic design or word processing software. Or if you are implementing this in software, you'll need to figure out how to activate Opentype typographic features in whatever API you're using, and activate the "smcp" one.

If the font you're using doesn't support this feature, you either won't get small caps or your software will try to create "fake small caps" from the existing capital letters.

The small caps variant of a font will not just be the capital letters shrunk down, because that would also reduce the thickness of the strokes. Instead, the small caps variant will designed to have the same stroke thickness, and probably also the same or scaled counters (usually resulting in shorter and fatter letters) as the capitals, meaning they'll look bolder than if you had just shrunk the capital letters.

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