Three ways to make text look small
| Style | What it looks like | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Small Caps | Capital shapes at lowercase height: ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ | Every letter except x |
| Superscript | Tiny raised letters: ᵗⁱⁿʸ | Every letter except q, plus digits and + − = ( ) |
| Subscript | Tiny lowered letters: ₜₑₓₜ | Only 17 letters, plus digits and + − = ( ) |
Small caps is the most readable of the three. Superscript gives the classic “tiny text” look. Subscript is the most limited and is mainly useful for chemical formulas such as H₂O and short math.
Why some letters stay full size
These characters were not designed as a tiny font. Small capitals come from phonetic notation, and superscript and subscript letters come from linguistics and math. Unicode only encoded the letters those fields needed. A few gaps:
- There is no small capital X in Unicode, so x stays a normal x in Small Caps.
- A superscript q exists only as a recent character outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, and few fonts include it, so FontBlaze leaves q plain.
- Subscript b, c, d, f, g and q do not exist. Subscript w, y and z were only added in Unicode 18.0 in 2026 and almost no fonts can show them yet, so FontBlaze leaves them plain too.
Some generators fill these gaps with lookalike letters from other alphabets. FontBlaze does not, because those substitutes change how the text is read and searched.
Tiny text: what people use it for
- A whisper-quiet line under a name in a bio.
- Footnote-style asides, such as a tiny “ᵃᵈ” or “ⁿᵉʷ”.
- Exponents and formulas: x², H₂O, 10⁶.
Tiny letters are hard to read for many people, and some screen readers announce them as modifier letters. Use them for decoration, not for information people need.