Examples of Initial Caps

There is a wonderful variety of ways to use initial caps. Here are several examples, which I hope will inspire you to play and create even greater and more interesting ways to use them.

Typeface is Bodoni Poster Compressed.

In InDesign, I set the letter “O” in a text block of its own so I could custom text wrap it. Typeface is Schmelvetica.

I set the “W” separately from the text. I used the Direct Selection Tool (the white pointer) in InDesign to reshape the text block with an angle on the left to match the angle of ...

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