: Opposite of SmallCaps? What is the name of text stylization, where all letters are lowercase, but where "naturally" uppercase letters would occur, a lowercase letter scaled to uppercase size is
What is the name of text stylization, where all letters are lowercase, but where "naturally" uppercase letters would occur, a lowercase letter scaled to uppercase size is used? - The opposite of smallcaps, where lowercase letters are replaced with downscaled uppercase.
(a very inopportune example is in the lower-left of the picture below; the cursive lowercase 'a' looks like something entirely different...)
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I don't think there is a typographic term for this. You're right that some characters are effectively the same as upper- and lower-case, such as C or U, while others are radically different, such as G or A.
Dig around in old books from Adrian Frutiger and there's probably a term to describe this phenotypical discordance.
The opposite of small caps is just "lowercase".
In some instances "unicase" may be appropriate if only one glyph for a character exists.
(....and for the record it's not merely "aunt" which reads poorly... "flickering" looks pretty suspicious to me as well. And "click lovers" is also pretty close to inappropriate due to the "cl" not being clearly defined.... did you search for these specifically?)
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