font-variant

Summary

The font-variant property enables you to select the small-caps font within a font family.

normal: Selects a font that is not a ‘small-caps’ font, usually the available ‘normal’ font.
small-caps: Selects a ‘small-caps’ font. If not small caps variant is available, the browser generates a small caps approximation.
inherit: Inherits the font-variant setting from its parent.

A simple example to show the effect achieved when small-caps are applied to a text paragraph.

<p>I think WebPlatform rocks.</p>

The CSS applied to the HTML above.

p {
  font-size: 300%;
  font-variant: small-caps;
}

In (CSS Fonts Module Level 3, W3C Working Draft 11 December 2012), this property is extended. However, no browser seems to support these changes yet.

CSS Fonts Module Level 3: W3C Candidate Recommendation
Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification: W3C Recommendation