Case Studies

Type is written in very different ways, and is referred to in specific terms, below is a definition of what these terms are and mean.

Sentance case:
First letter of the sentence capitalised, all others lower case.

UPPERCASE:
All letters are capitalised.

lowercase:
No letters are capitalised.

Title Case:
The first letter of each word is capitalized, the rest are lower case. In some cases short articles, prepositions, and conjunctions are not capitalised.

Proper Case:
Used for proper nouns, the first letter of each word is capitalized.

Here is a selection of sentence cases not used in standard English, but common in computer programming and other specialised fields:

CamelCase:
First letter of each word capitalized, spaces and punctuation removed. This can be useful for technical situations where spaces are not allowed.

Start Case:
First letter of each word capitalized, spaces separate words. All words including short articles and prepositions start with a capital letter. For example: This Is A Start Case.

embedded_underscore:
Punctuation is removed and spaces are replaced by single underscores. Normally the letters share the same case (either UPPER_CASE_EMBEDDED_UNDERSCORE or lower_case_embedded_underscore) but the case can be mixed.

sTuDlYcApS:
Mixed case, with no semantic or syntactic significance to the use of the capitals. Sometimes only vowels are upper case, other times upper and lower case is alternated, but often it is just random. The name comes from the fact that it was used to imply coolness on the part of the writer, although nowadays it is more often used ironically. (It is also used to mock the violation of standard English case conventions by marketing people in the naming of computer software packages, even when there is no technical requirement to do so, e.g. Sun's naming of a windowing system NeWS.)