For a book of fairy tales, I used (working!): \def\Initial{\DroppedCaps% {\color[red]} {Serif} {2.5\baselineskip} {3pt} {2\baselineskip} {3}} \starttext \Initial Once upon a time... \input tufte \stoptext But that gives now: <to be read again> \unskip \\->\ifhmode \unskip \prewordbreak \crlfplaceholder \ifcase \raggedstatus \h... \somefontsize ->2.5\\ baselineskip \lowleveldefinefont ...aledfontsize \somefontsize \or \scaledfontsize \local... \dododefinefont ...inefont {#2}\rawfontidentifier \csname \rawfontidentifier... \dodefinedfont ...nedfont][#1]\fi \thedefinedfont \the \everydefinedfont ... l.7 \Initial O nce upon a time... \input tufte It works, if I use absolute values for font size and vertical offset, like \def\Initial{\DroppedCaps% {\color[red]} {Serif} {36pt} {3pt} {28pt} {3}} I also tried \setupinitial / \placeinitial like below; I got my defined font, but only ever in base font size. %\definefontsynonym[Initial][WieynkInitialen] \setupinitial[font=WieynkInitialen,n=3,state=start,command=\Initial] % I also tried \NiceDroppedCaps and \LineDroppedCaps that I found in the sources, but didn’t get further. So, what’s the preferred way to get dropped capitals / initials? I’d like to wikify that, since it seems nowhere documented. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)