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Japanese translation: ミディアムキャピタル,メディアムキャップ


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English term or phrase:Medium Capitals
Japanese translation:ミディアムキャピタル,メディアムキャップ
Entered by: Katalin Horvath McClure
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04:55 Sep 5, 2007
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Tech/Engineering - Advertising / Public Relations / Guiddline to make newsletter, brochure
English term or phrase: Medium Capitals
It is defined as follows in the URL below, but does anyone know if there is any proper Japanese words for this term? Or should I just use it as it is, Medium Capitals...? And also, I'm not sure the meaning of full capitals in the following definition.
"A set of capital-shaped letters that are scaled between small capitals or lowercse x-height and the full capitals of the design."
(http://www.tdc.org/views/typedictionaryM.html)
komachi
Japan
Local time: 04:04
ミディアムキャピタル 
Explanation:
おそらくカタカナとなります。
Small, medium and full capital letter all have the shape of capital (upper case) letters (such as A, B, C, D, E ..., not a, b, c, d, e ...), but they have different heights.
すべて大文字の形をしていますが、高さが違います。
一番高いがFull capital (普通の大文字)で、一番低いがSmall capital (小文字の高さと一緒)です。Mediumというのはその間の中高です。
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Katalin Horvath McClure
United States
Local time: 15:04
Grading comment
Katalin-san, (& KathyT-san and sigmalanguage-san) thank you very much. Easy to understand.
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4 +2ミディアムキャピタル 
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medium capitals
ミディアムキャピタル 


Explanation:
おそらくカタカナとなります。
Small, medium and full capital letter all have the shape of capital (upper case) letters (such as A, B, C, D, E ..., not a, b, c, d, e ...), but they have different heights.
すべて大文字の形をしていますが、高さが違います。
一番高いがFull capital (普通の大文字)で、一番低いがSmall capital (小文字の高さと一緒)です。Mediumというのはその間の中高です。

Katalin Horvath McClure
United States
Local time: 15:04
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Grading comment
Katalin-san, (& KathyT-san and sigmalanguage-san) thank you very much. Easy to understand.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  KathyT: Small caps are mostly スモールキャップ in Japanese, so presumably the shorthand メディアムキャップ would also be fine.
15 mins

agree  sigmalanguage: そうですね。多分カタカナですね。
5 hrs
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Sep 5, 2007 - Changes made by Katalin Horvath McClure:
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