The small alphabetic characters, whether accented or not, as distinguished from the capital alphabetic characters. The concept of case also applies to alphabets such as Cyrillic and Greek, but not to Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and some other languages. Examples of lower-case letters are a, b and c. Contrast with Common Naming for Layout Values .

Small letters, as distinguished from capital letters. Abbreviated lc.

the small letters of any font, as opposed to the capital letters.

the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

See case sensitive