Letter Case Style

A Letter Case Style is a text style that ...

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Lower Case to being an Upper Case.
• Example(s):
  • a Title Case Style.
  • an ALL-CAPS Style.
  • a Sentence case Style.
  • a lowercase Style.
  • a camelCase Style.
  • a PascalCase Style.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Italic Type.
• See: Engineering Drawing, Orthography, Typography, #Terminology, English Alphabet, Font, Ascender (Typography), Descenders, Antiqua (Typeface Class), Long s, Italic Type, Text Figures.

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References

• http://titlecase.com/

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/letter_case#Case_styles Retrieved:2016-3-7.
  • In English, a variety of case styles are used in various circumstances:
    • Sentence case : “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
      The standard case used in English prose. Only the first character is capitalised, except for proper nouns and other words which are generally capitalised by a more specific rule. Generally equivalent to the baseline universal standard of formal English orthography mentioned above
    • Title case : "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog." or
      "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
      Also known as "headline style" and "capital case". First character in all words capitalised, except for certain subsets defined by rules that are not universally standardised. The standardisation is only at the level of house styles and individual style manuals. (See further explanation below at Headings and publication titles.) A simplified variant is start case, where all words, including articles, prepositions, and conjunctions, start with a capital letter.
    • All caps : "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG."
      Also known/written as "all-caps". Capital letters only. This style can be used in headings and special situations, such as for typographical emphasis in text made on a typewriter. With the advent of the Internet, all-caps is more often used for emphasis; however, it is considered poor netiquette by some to type in all capitals, and said to be tantamount to shouting. Long spans of Latin-alphabet text in all upper-case are harder to read because of the absence of the ascenders and descenders found in lower-case letters, which can aid recognition.
    • Small caps : ""
      Capital letters at the size of a lowercase "x". Slightly larger small-caps can be used in a fashion. Used for acronyms, names, mathematical entities, computer commands in printed text, business or personal printed stationery letterheads, and other situations where a given phrase needs to be distinguished from the main text.

       ; Lowercase : "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
      No capital letters. This style is sometimes used for artistic effect, such as in poetry. Also commonly seen in computer commands and SMS language, to avoid pressing the Shift key in order to type quickly.

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/letter_case Retrieved:2016-2-5.
  • In orthography and typography, 'letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formally majuscule (see Terminology) and smaller lower case (also small letters, or more formally minuscule, see Terminology) in the written representation of certain languages. Here is a comparison of the upper and lower case versions of each letter included in the English alphabet (the exact representation will vary according to the font used):

    Typographically, the basic difference between the majuscules and minuscules is not that the majuscules are big and minuscules small, but that the majuscules generally have the same height. The height of the minuscules varies, as some of them have parts higher or lower than the average, i.e. ascenders and descenders. In Times New Roman, for instance, b, d, f, h, k, l, t are the letters with ascenders, and g, j, p, q, y are the ones with descenders. Further to this, with old-style numerals still used by some traditional or classical fonts — although most do have a set of alternative Lining Figures — 6 and 8 make up the ascender set, and 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 the descender set.

    Letter case is often prescribed by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular discipline. In orthography, the uppercase is primarily reserved for special purposes, such as the first letter of a sentence or of a proper noun, which makes the lowercase the more common variant in text. In mathematics, letter case may indicate the relationship between objects with uppercase letters often representing "superior" objects (e.g. X could be a set containing the generic member x). Engineering design drawings are typically labelled entirely in upper-case letters, which are easier to distinguish than lowercase, especially when space restrictions require that the lettering be small.

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