Absolutely pointless rambling because I'm tired, re: small caps
I like small caps. They're considered bombastic because of semantics regarding the current form of written language, but in a vacuum I like their advantages. Each letter has only one glyph associated with it; you don't have upper and lower case variants. No letters need to dip into the space below the 'line' and all of them uniformly hit the top of their size. It looks clean, and generally simplifies the character set.
re: Absolutely pointless rambling because I'm tired, re: small caps
@Felthry Even caps that are very similar have something that makes them distinct at a glance. Like E and F, one is the same as the other with an extra line missing... But that created gap is immediately recognizable.
re: Absolutely pointless rambling because I'm tired, re: small caps
@Felthry Yeah, that's legitimate. But part of that too is that lower case generally has more samey shapes while uppers tend to look fairly definitive, at least to me. Lowers have a lot of "vertical line that extends up, down, or neither," circle, most of a circle, arch...