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font-variant-caps

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The font-variant-caps CSS property controls the use of alternate glyphs used for small or petite capitals or for titling.

The font-variant-caps property controls the use of alternate glyphs used for small or petite capitals or for titling.

When a given font includes capital letter glyphs of multiple different sizes, this property selects the most appropriate ones. If petite capital glyphs are not available, they are rendered using small capital glyphs. If these are not present, the browser synthesizes them from the uppercase glyphs.

The value is a single keyword. For each value, if the font doesn’t support the OpenType value, then it synthesizes the glyphs. Fonts sometimes include special glyphs for various caseless characters (such as punctuation marks) to better match the capitalized characters around them. However, small capital glyphs are never synthesized for caseless characters.

Syntax example: font-variant-caps: normal;

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