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Title Case for Headings and Buttons

SHOULD

SHOULD: Use Chicago-style Title Case for headings, buttons, and menu items — capitalize principal words, lowercase short articles, conjunctions, and prepositions.

Use Chicago-style Title Case consistently for headings, buttons, and menu items

Bad

Good

Why it matters

Mixed casing across a single surface makes headings stop reading as headings and buttons look half-finished. Chicago Title Case gives one deterministic rule — capitalize principal words, lowercase short articles, conjunctions, and prepositions — so labels stay predictable as the product grows. The rule is scoped to product UI: marketing pages deliberately invert it and use sentence case, because long persuasive headlines set in Title Case read as shouting. Pick the casing from the surface you are on, then never mix the two within it.

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.