Bringhurst writes that small caps need to be designed to visually match the standard capitals of a font, and that purely geometrically generated small caps can only be a parody. For a long time it was obvious to me that "faux small caps" are a mistake that would only be made by clueless programmers of consumer software like MS Word, and those of their users which are equally clueless.
Now recently I encountered several examples of – I'd say bad – small caps in places where I wouldn't have expected them:
The back entrance of the US embassy in Berlin: 
The credits of the TV series Hemlock Grove: 
In both cases I'd expect the people in charge to have hired a designer that knows his/her business – but in both cases the small caps seem to be just scaled-down versions of the regular caps. What's going on here?
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