First Paragraph Styling in Deckle

Give every chapter's opening paragraph a classic book-design treatment (a drop cap, raised cap, or small caps line) applied automatically, without touching each chapter by hand.

What You Can Do

• Choose Plain (no special treatment), Drop Cap, Raised Cap, or Small Caps for the very first paragraph of every chapter.
• Control a drop or raised cap's size (2-5 lines), color, and whether it uses your heading font.
• Set exactly how many words at the start of a chapter get the small-caps treatment, and at what size.

How to Set a First-Paragraph Style

1. Open Styles and select the First Paragraph category.
2. Choose Plain, Drop Cap, Raised Cap, or Small Caps from the Style dropdown.
3. For Drop Cap or Raised Cap, set line height, color, and whether it borrows your heading font.
4. For Small Caps, set how many words get the treatment and at what size.

Plain vs. Drop Cap vs. Raised Cap vs. Small Caps

• Plain: no special treatment; the first paragraph reads like any other.
• Drop Cap: a large first letter that sinks into the following lines of text, the classic novel-opening look.
• Raised Cap: a large first letter that sits above the line rather than sinking into it.
• Small Caps: the opening few words rendered in small capital letters instead of an enlarged single letter.

A Couple of Things Worth Knowing

💡 Drop cap and raised cap settings are identical except for how the letter sits relative to the surrounding text. Every other setting (lines, color, font, spacing) works the same for both.

💡 This applies to every chapter's first paragraph automatically. You're not styling one chapter at a time.