typically, the height of a small capital glyph will be one ex, the same height as most lowercase characters in the font. in fonts with relatively low x-height, however, small caps may be somewhat larger than this. for example, in some tiro typeworks fonts, small caps glyphs are 30% larger than x-height, and 70% the height of full capitals. to differentiate between these two alternatives, the x-height form is sometimes called petite caps, () preserving the name "small caps" for the larger variant.