Cursive I

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Side by side, the small i is a thin letter beside a wide one: its width is 0.33 of the capital's. The capital I touches the cap height. The dot of the small i tops out between the x-height and the cap height, so with its dot the small letter rises 0.78 as far as the capital.

Capital I in cursive, a loop

The capital I is one line. It makes a tall closed loop on the right and a short bar on the left.

The loop is wider at the top than at the bottom, and its top touches the cap height. No other part of the capital encloses a space.

The short bar lies between the baseline and the x-height. Its right-hand end is a blunt tip, which stops short of the loop and leaves white space in between. Its left end is a sharp point, and that point is the part of the capital I furthest left.

A rounded curve that rests on the baseline joins the sharp point to the loop. On its left the loop comes down across this curve a little above the baseline, and it ends on the baseline in a blunt foot.

Small i, a line and a dot

The small i has two separate parts, a slanted line and a round dot above it.

The line has a blunt top at the x-height, and nothing leads into it from the left. On the baseline it bends to the right into a short upturned tail, which ends well under the x-height.

The dot floats clear of the line, between the x-height and the cap height. It sits up and to the right of the line's top. Nothing on the small i reaches further right than the dot.

A loop with a bar, a line with a dot

The capital I and the small i look nothing alike. The capital is a tall loop with a bar at its left, and the small letter is a short line with a dot. The dot belongs to the small i alone, and the enclosed space to the capital I alone.

An i before m, twice: impart and improper

Idly, impart, improper and isotope begin with the small i. A d follows it in idly, an m in impart and in improper, and an s in isotope.

Beside the small t and the small j

The small t and the small j both resemble the small i, each in its own way.

The small i and the small t are each a single slanted line that curves at the baseline into a short tail, turning up on the right. The small t is the taller of the two, and it has a bar across it at the x-height. The small i stops at the x-height and has its separate dot above.

The small j is like the small i higher up: a slanted line that tops out at the x-height, and a separate round dot over it. The two lines part at the baseline. The line of the small i stops there and turns into a short tail, while the line of the small j runs on under the baseline into a wide loop.

• Small t
• Small j

The capital is SCRIPT CAPITAL I

The Cursive style's text character for the capital I is SCRIPT CAPITAL I, U+2110, a character of the Letterlike Symbols block. The small i is U+1D4BE, MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL I.