shape of characters![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
In printing, uppercase characters, small capitals and lowercase characters can be straight (roman) or slanted (italic).
italic ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Type style with characters slanting to the right; it is used mostly to identify titles, quotations and foreign words.
lowercase ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Smaller version of a letter that is generally used for most text wherever a capital letter is not required.
small capital ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Capital letter that is the same height as a lowercase letter and is used mainly to write symbols.
uppercase ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Capital letter used mostly at the beginning of a sentence and for proper names.