CSS
.dropcap
{
float:left;
color:#D4D4C7;
line-height:70px;
padding-top:2px;
font:100px Times, Georgia, serif;
}
HTML
<span class="dropcap">T</span>his starts with a dropcap.
Note that IE will cut the drop cap if line height is too small.
More at mandarin design, html dog and armen’s alpha design.
Magazines use the drop cap technique and CSS2 includes the first-letter pseudo class, but we want more control and we want to use use inline style so we are using a span to make the first letter of the paragraph big.
source: mandarin design
