Apply all caps and small caps
When you format text as small caps, Illustrator automatically uses the small-cap characters designed as part of the font, if available. Otherwise, Illustrator synthesizes the small caps using scaled-down versions of the regular capital letters.
Regular capital letters (top) compared to small-cap letters
(bottom)
- Select the characters or type objects you want to change. If you don’t select any text, the setting applies to new text you create.
- Choose All Caps or Small Caps from the Character panel menu.
To specify the size for synthesized small caps, choose File > Document Setup, and choose Type from the pop‑up menu at the top of the dialog box. For Small Caps, type a percentage of the original font size for text to be formatted as small caps. (The default value is 70%.)
To change the capitalization
style of text to uppercase, lowercase, title case, or sentence case,
use the Type > Change Case command.