Small caps are capital or uppercase letters that are a smaller size than regular capitals in a given font. They are about the size of normal lowercase letters, opposed to matching in scale with ALL CAPS. Small caps allow the font to be more readable, it is less harsh than ALL CAPS, balancing out the composition.
Examples:
*Baskerville does have small caps.
Ligatures are two or more letters combined into one character. These are often employed to emphasize sounds letters create, but the most important function is to improve the appearance of the font. The ligature creates a smoother transition or connection between characters by connecting crossbars, removing dots over the i, or otherwise altering the shape of the characters. Some common ligatures are: fi, ff, or fl.
Example:
*Baskerville does have ligatures.
The difference between apostrophes and footmarks is their purpose in grammar. Apostrophe are utilized for quotations and references while footmarks are employed to list measurements. Inch marks and quotation marks fall into this same category. The rounder the mark will go in the quotation category while straight lines go with prime marks.
A hyphen is a punctuation mark used to divide or compound words. While an em-dash is punctuation used to note a pause in thought–just like this. Similar to the em-dash is the en-dash, and this punctuation is a substation for the word "to."
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