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I want to use the small caps of the font CormorantGaramond-Light.ttf. With XeLaTeX I could just do

\documentclass {article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Cormorant Garamond Light}

\begin{document}
\scshape Hello World
\end{document}

How can I do the same in plain TeX without using fontspec?

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You can use \fontname\font in the LaTeX document to see what font is used by fontspec. For example:

\documentclass {article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CormorantGaramond-Regular.ttf}

\begin{document}
\scshape \fontname\font, Hello World
\end{document}

You can see in this example:

"[CormorantGaramond-Regular.ttf]/OT:script=latn;language=dflt;+smcp;mapping=tex-text"

So, your plain TeX document can look like:

\font\f="[CormorantGaramond-Regular.ttf]/OT:script=latn;language=dflt;+smcp;mapping=tex-text"

\f Hello world

\bye

Note that the font feature +smcp does this folk: it switches the font to the Caps and Small caps mode.

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You need to find the font-filename that houses the sc version you want. I don't have your exact font, but I show the technique, here for XeTeX.

\font \ariblk="[ariblk.ttf]" at 11pt
\font \corsclight="[CormorantSC-Light.ttf]" at 11pt

Default
\ariblk  Arial Black
\corsclight And now CormorantSC-Light
\bye

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  • I think there is no sc version of the font. So how is latex able to set small caps?
    – M0M0
    Jun 1, 2021 at 3:17
  • I think you are using another font: your example calls Cormorant Garamond Light, while Steven's calls CormorantSC-Light.
    – jarnosz
    Jun 9, 2021 at 20:46
  • @jarnosz I believe you are right that our fonts are different. However, the technique should apply. Wipet's answer is better, because he specifies an option from the base-font for automatically accessing the sc version.
    – Steven B. Segletes
    Jun 9, 2021 at 20:56
  • @StevenB.Segletes indeed.
    – jarnosz
    Jun 10, 2021 at 22:28

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