: Open type sans serif fonts with true small caps I am designing the front cover page for my book in Adobe Illustrator. I would like to have a nice sans serif font for my main title. I chose

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Small caps in sans typefaces are somewhat rare. There are some classics available if you dig deep (and have a copy of "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst handy, which is how I originally found some of them).

The OpenType Futura issued by the Neufville type foundry includes true small caps and a full range of weights in both regular and condensed. They are sold online by Bauertypes (it helps if you can read Spanish). The versions sold by Adobe, FontFont, etc. do not include small caps.

Monotype's OpenType issue of Gill Sans also includes small caps.

FF Quadraat Sans is an elegant face with true small caps.

Veer publishes Marlowe, a cousin of Avant Garde, which includes small caps and an array of Avant Garde-esque quirky ligatures.

Adobe's elegant Hypatia Sans Pro has small caps, many alternate glyphs, stylistic sets and custom ligatures in a very useful range of weights. Tom Phinney drew the roman when he was at Adobe, but the Italic was added a year or so ago.

Other classics such as Frutiger, Franklin Gothic, the various Helveticas and Univers are as barren of small caps as they are of serifs.

[Later addition:] It's also worth noting that Calibri, which comes bundled with OSes, is a very versatile typeface with true small caps.

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