Comments on: Capitalize Your Headlines Properly, Please

By: Michael Cheung

Michael Cheung — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:42:33 +0000

Don’t be so quick to dismiss newspapers that use sentence case in their headlines. The majority of top newspapers – from The Washington Post to The Los Angeles Times – use sentence case. The New York Times remains an exception.

By: Folks

Folks — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:23:08 +0000

My friends. Capitalized captions are used only in US, European style is on other hand like normal sentence..real old media, capitalized words in captions are young/modern US design style:)

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:01:12 +0000

In my experience, 80% of the publications that use sentence case aren’t worth reading.

“Most prefer sentence case; it saves space in character counts.”

That doesn’t make any sense. What do character counts have to do with capitalization?

By: Ryan Stoddart

Ryan Stoddart — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:32:07 +0000

Just a note: with the exception of a select few newspapers, most DO NOT use this style any longer. Most prefer sentence case; it saves space in character counts.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:29:51 +0000

Good. Sloppiness will not be tolerated!

By: @problogdesign

@problogdesign — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:27:16 +0000

Completely agree with you Matt. The headlines on my site are all styled to uppercase in the CSS, but I'm still careful to make sure that the capitalization is right just for the RSS readers and HTML title.

Wouldn't even dream of having it wrong on the page itself!

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:07:33 +0000

Maybe that's why they closed?

By: JPM

JPM — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:02:28 +0000

>Have you ever seen a printed newspaper without compliant case? Probably not.

The newspaper I used to work for use this style. Drove me crazy, too. (And it was a major metro, at one time 700,000 circulation, though down to 300,000 when it closed.)