About the Title Case Converter
Title case is the convention for headlines, book titles, section headings and navigation labels. The input is lowercased first, then the first letter of every word is capitalised, so a heading typed with caps lock on, all in lowercase, or in a mixture of both comes out consistent. The capital is applied after a space, a hyphen, an opening bracket or a quotation mark, which keeps Well-Known and a quoted phrase looking right.
Two behaviours to watch. Because the text is lowercased before anything else, words that carry internal capitals lose them: NASA becomes Nasa, iPhone becomes Iphone, macOS becomes Macos. Apostrophes count as word boundaries too, so O'Brien comes out correctly but don't becomes Don'T. Scan the result for brand names and contractions and fix those by hand.
Every word is capitalised rather than skipping the short ones, because AP, Chicago and MLA disagree about which words to lowercase and about the length threshold for doing so. Capitalising all of them gives a predictable starting point you can edit down to your house style. For sentence case, camelCase or kebab-case instead, the Case Converter has them all, and Slug Generator turns the finished heading into a URL.
How to use
- Paste the heading.
- Copy the title-cased result.
- Lowercase any short words by hand if your style guide requires it.
Common questions
- Does it lowercase "of", "the" and "and"?
- No. It capitalises every word for predictability. Style guides disagree on which words to skip, so adjust by hand if needed.
- Does it fix an all-caps title?
- Yes. It lowercases the rest of each word, so AN ALL CAPS TITLE becomes An All Caps Title.
- What about words after a hyphen?
- The letter after a hyphen or opening bracket is capitalised too.