Small caps and small text generator

The page opens on small capitals, which sit on the baseline and read as an even, quiet line. Position switches to superscript, which floats the letters up, or subscript, which drops them below. Those two are the ones people mean by tiny text.

Swap the boxes to get ordinary text back. Type on the left and the result updates as you go.

A typographer's small capitals are a second cut of a typeface. Unicode's are something else. ʀ is the symbol for a uvular trill in the International Phonetic Alphabet, ɴ a uvular nasal, ɢ a voiced uvular stop. Linguists needed a way to write those sounds, so the letters were encoded as the notation called for them, most of the set sitting together from U+1D00 in a block named Phonetic Extensions, with ʀ, ɴ, ɢ, ʙ, ʜ, ɪ, ʟ and ʏ left behind between U+0262 and U+029F, in the older IPA Extensions block.

So the set is whatever phoneticians happened to want. There's no small capital X anywhere in Unicode, so X stays lowercase. A small capital Q only arrived in 2018, and few fonts draw it yet, so Q borrows ǫ, an o with a tail.

F and S do exist, but they arrived late and from a different block, so they sometimes sit a shade differently from their neighbors depending on the font.

Superscript and subscript were assembled the same haphazard way, for math and phonetics rather than for decoration, and they're missing more.

Superscript covers 25 letters. Unicode added a q in 2021, but most phones and computers still show it as a box, so q stays plain. Subscript is thinner and leaves nine plain (b, c, d, f, g, q, w, y and z), so a word with a b or a g in it comes back part-shrunk and part-normal. Six of those don't exist in Unicode at all, and no font can draw a character that isn't there. Subscript w, y and z were added in 2026, and the tool doesn't use them yet.

Small capitals are the complete-looking option, and the reason this page starts there.

Small capitals have no case of their own. Every letter renders as a capital shape, so "Quiet" and "quiet" produce the same thing and the text comes back lowercase when you convert it.

Worth knowing before putting a name through it. As with everything in this family, a screen reader reads these as phonetic symbols rather than as the word, and search matches none of them.

Superscript is the same conversion with the raised letters given a page of their own, and a chart of exactly which ones exist. Bold goes the other way, for when small isn't the point.

Paste any of it into the Unicode converter to see which block each character came from.