There are various uses for proper small capitals in languages that use a Latin alphabet, and occasionally a font may also provide these for Cyrillic or Greek languages. Now that I have finished (I hope!) updating the 'main' (i.e. Latin) fonts in 2023 I am revising the lipsum files for these and taking the opportunity to include details of small capitals, where available, as well as italics and the available font weights. Those details are also in the main languages PDFs for these fonts.
Unlike my main tables, here the fonts are listed in alphabetical order by name within the style.
I have attempted to find out which SC codepoints are available, and shown then in the main codepoint files with a ' +SC', but for a few fonts I could not find any glyph information.
These Didone-style fonts tend to be very light.
Name | Identifier | No. | Languages for SC | Codepoints | Main languages PDF |
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Antykwa Poltawskiego | antpolt | 2.004 | antpolt-sc languages | Yes, +SC | antpolt main languages |
Berenis ADF Pro | BerenisADFPro | 2.009 | BerenisADFPro-sc languages | Yes, +SC | BerenisADFPro main languages |
Latin Modern Roman | lmroman | 2.021 | lmroman-sc languages | Yes, +SC | lmroman main languages |
TeX Gyre Schola | texgyreschola | 2.050 | texgyreschola-sc languages | Yes, +SC | texgyreschola main languages |
Some of these fonts have very pleasing proportions, others are rather tiny. Many lack italics or a bold weight.
Name | Identifier | No. | Languages for SC | Codepoints | Main languages PDF |
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Gentium Plus | GentiumPlus | 1.036 | GentiumPlus-sc languages | Yes, +SC | GentiumPlus main languages |
Alegreya | Alegreya | 2.002 | Alegreya-sc languages | Yes, +SC | Alegreya main languages |
EB Garamond | EBGaramond | 2.013 | EBGaramond-sc languages | Yes, +SC | EBGaramond main languages |
Fanwood Text | FanwoodText | 2.014 | FanwoodText-sc languages | Yes, +SC | FanwoodText main languages |
Junicode | Junicode | 2.019 | Junicode-sc languages | Yes, +SC | Junicode main languages |
Linden Hill | LindenHill | 2.026 | LindenHill-sc languages | Yes, +SC | LindenHill main languages |
OFL Sorts Mill Goudy | OFLGoudyStM | 2.033 | OFLGoudyStM-sc languages | Yes, +SC | OFLGoudyStM main languages |
TeX Gyre Pagella | texgyrepagella | 2.049 | texgyrepagella-sc languages | Yes, +SC | texgyrepagella main languages |
These are the most common style of font among those I have looked at, and probably most suitable for general use with serifs.
Name | Identifier | No. | Languages for SC | Codepoints | Main languages PDF |
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Charis SIL | CharisSIL | 1.022 | CharisSIL-sc languages | Yes, +SC | CharisSIL main languages |
Common Serif | CommonSerif | 3.007 | CommonSerif-sc languages | Yes, +SC | CommonSerif main languages |
Doulos SIL | DoulosSIL | 1.027 | DoulosSIL-sc languages | Yes, +SC | DoulosSIL main languages |
FreeSerif | FreeSerif | 1.035 | Only a-z æ ø þ ß ð ł ơ ư. | Yes, +SC | FreeSerif main languages |
LibertinusSerif | Libertinus Serif | 1.053 | LibertinusSerif-sc languages | Yes, +SC | LibertinusSerif main languages |
Noto Serif | NotoSerif | 1.113 | NotoSerif-sc languages | Yes, +SC | NotoSerif main languages |
Source Serif 4 | SourceSerif4 | 2.044 | SourceSerif4-sc languages | SC Unknown | SourceSerif4 main languages |
TeX Gyre Bonum | texgyrebonum | 2.046 | texgyrebonum-sc languages | Yes, +SC | texgyrebonum main languages |
TeX Gyre Termes | texgyretermes | 2.051 | texgyretermes-sc languages | Yes, +SC | texgyretermes main languages |
Vollkorn | Vollkorn | 2.054 | Vollkorn-sc languages | Yes, +SC | Vollkorn main languages |