I came across this recently where, IIUC, the lowercase was superscript while the uppercase was normal or subscript.
What is this style called?
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Regardless of how it is achieved, it is called a "drop cap" or "dropped capital."
Your example without any other context suggests it is a sloppy hack to emulate the effect without having proper control of e.g. baseline offset caused by: ignorance; aesthetic choice; lack of software support; all of the above.
Normally, there would be one drop cap at the start of a paragraph only and usually only one per chapter or section. The fact that there are several in-line suggest an aesthetic choice.
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You'll be relieved to know that I copied and pasted some text superscript and pasted it into a document and the text was typing out in what you see above. That design is not out there in the wild. – 1.21 gigawatts Oct 11 '19 at 23:12
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+1 for pointing out it should be sparsely used. I find that sentence super-hard to read. – Criggie Oct 12 '19 at 19:58
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please don't take what I wrote as a complaint. I don't really like it per se, but context is everything. I mean, I grew up looking at xeroxed fanzine from the early 70s and believe me, the ones you see online are the good ones people choose to photograph. Evn so, there was a lot of talent and intelligence and it is not so easy to write off some choices as lack of training. And I love sloppy hacks. – Yorik Oct 15 '19 at 14:30
