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“five rules for cleaner documentation” — Uppercase, Lowercase, Title Case and Sentence Case

5 words · 36 characters · four conversions, no sign-up

Enter this string in the converter and these are the four outputs it returns. Nothing here is stored or guessed: the same regular expressions that run in your browser were run at build time, so the page and the tool agree character for character.

Where each form belongs

FormResultTypical use
UPPERCASEFIVE RULES FOR CLEANER DOCUMENTATIONLoud labels, ticker codes, shouting about a deadline
lowercasefive rules for cleaner documentationEmail addresses, URL slugs, file names
Title CaseFive Rules For Cleaner DocumentationHeadlines, button labels, menu items
Sentence caseFive rules for cleaner documentationBody copy, descriptions, help text
Characters365 words
Letters32rest is punctuation or digits
Capitals in Title Case5one per word

How the rules behave on this string

Every conversion starts from the same tidy-up: runs of spaces collapse to one and the ends are trimmed, while line breaks are preserved. Uppercase and lowercase then apply directly. Sentence case lowercases everything and re-capitalises the first letter after a full stop, question mark, exclamation mark or line break. Title case lowercases everything and re-capitalises the letter that follows the start of a line, a space, a quote, a bracket or an apostrophe.

Title Case here is a blanket rule: every word gets a capital, including the short ones. Writers who follow AP or Chicago style would leave of, the and and lowercase in a headline, so the Title Case line above is a starting point rather than a finished house style.

Before any conversion runs, the string measures 36 characters and 5 words; the letter-to-punctuation split is 32 to 4, and the vowels number 14, or 44% of the letters. The longest token, “documentation”, carries 13 characters against 3 in “for”, against an average of 6.4. Entry 41 of 76, it produces 5 capitals in Title Case — 16% of its letters.

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Frequently asked questions

What does each of the four results mean?
They are four separate passes over the same 36-character string. UPPERCASE and lowercase are the obvious ones. Title Case capitalises the first letter of every word, and Sentence case capitalises only the first letter of each sentence while forcing everything else down. The converter on the homepage builds them with the identical rules.

Which one should I paste into my document?
For a headline or a section title, Title Case is the conventional choice in English web copy, with the caveat that style guides keep short articles and prepositions lowercase. Sentence case reads more naturally in product interfaces and is what most design systems now ask for.

Converting a whole paragraph, a JSON key list or a batch of headlines? The CaseLabNow case converter takes free text up to several thousand characters, and the case reference library has a page for every string listed here.