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Originally Posted by bookman156
It's standard typographical practice, certainly since Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style, to add a little letter-spacing with small caps. I usually have 0.05em. If you're using true small caps it looks better, if just reduced caps it doesn't really help.
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That book recommends a letter space of 10% of the size. So for a standard 1em size, that would be .1em and not .5em. This is not just with small caps, but with words with 3 or more uppercase letters next to each other.