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True classical latin didn't have lower case. Initial letters were written marginally larger, but what we'd now (mostly) think of as uppercase is what all the letters looked like.


Amazing how we inherited concepts in philosphy, politics, art and other areas FROM A CIVILIZATION THAT SHOUTED IN CAPS.


That’s called “Small caps”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps


No it isn't.

From the first sentence of the link, my emphasis:

> with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters (capitals) but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures.[1] T


How does that differ from what you wrote?


They ARE the standard size of the surrounding text, not smaller. They have a larger initial letter, for the first letter of a paragraph, sometimes.


They are normal baseline size, not smaller than the surrounding text.


It sounds more akin to a drop capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial




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