Hey all,
I've only fairly recently started hands on type design. My first fully fledged typeface is slowly taking shape, and I have been wondering about including small caps. In terms of design and imagined use for my typeface I see small caps as a good addition. Unlike adding for example additional scripts, I figured adding small caps might be rather straight forward in terms of design time investment.
With all my capitals designed, how should I go about creating the small caps in an efficient way? Do you have some favourite scripts you use to help you generate raw small caps from the capitals, or maybe use some FontLab specific feature or action to help you with it?
And as a (maybe obvious) side question... Do you usually include small caps for italic versions as well?
Any help is appreciated. Also pointing out obvious things is more than welcome, I am rather new to this after all.
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These are all attributes that can be adjusted fairly accurately in InDesign or Quark, by applying values to the basic capitals.
So I would suggest that you play around with variants of these values, examining text settings, until you come up with something that looks good to you, before doing anything in FontLab.
One other thing to consider is the “x-height” of old style figures (if you have them in the font), and how it relates to small cap height.