1) Small capitals are uppercase characters set at the same height/weight as lowercase letters used in running text to prevent capitalized words from appearing too large on the page. Also used in place of italics. Small caps draw attention more than regular capitals and are more aesthetically pleasing.
2) The original Futura design concept included small capitals. Dropped from original metal issue of the type and first offered digitally by Neufrille Digital under the Futura ND family.
3)Ligature is two or more letters joined together to form one character. Helped some practical typesetting problems. fi and ae. Futura does not have ligatures. The font is too geometric it would look very awkward. A font that does use ligatures is Mrs. Eaves.
5) The difference between a foot mark and apostrophes is footmarks are straight while apostrophes are curved.
6) Hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes are somewhat similar in appearance but different in length and meaning. Hyphens glue words together and notify the reader of two or more elements in a sentence that are linked. En dashes connect things that are related to each other in distance. Like may-september issue of a magazine. Em dashes are similar to parenthesis and are for additional thoughts to be added.
