Title Case Converter

Capitalize every word of your headline — free, instant, runs in your browser.

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What is Title Case?

Title Case is a capitalization style where the first letter of every word is uppercase and the remaining letters are lowercase. The converter above splits your text into words — it understands spaces, underscores, hyphens and camelCase boundaries — capitalizes each word and joins them back with single spaces.

Title Case examples

hello world example → Hello World Example
the lord of the rings → The Lord Of The Rings
user profile settings → User Profile Settings

Where is Title Case used?

Title Case is the classic style for headlines, article and blog post titles, book and movie names, section headings and product or feature names. Many design systems also use it for page titles and card headers.

Title Case and style guides

Strict style guides such as AP, Chicago and APA keep minor words — articles (a, an, the), short prepositions (of, in, on) and coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or) — in lowercase unless they are the first or last word. This tool capitalizes every word (sometimes called Start Case), so if you follow one of those guides you may want to lowercase the minor words by hand after converting.

Common mistakes when converting case

Expecting editorial Title Case. The Title Case button capitalizes every word, including short ones: "the lord of the rings" becomes "The Lord Of The Rings". Style guides like AP and Chicago keep words such as "of", "the" and "and" lowercase, so adjust those by hand afterward.
Losing apostrophes. Word-based styles (Title Case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case, CONSTANT_CASE) split on anything that is not a letter or digit, so "don't stop" turns into "Don T Stop" or "don_t_stop". Remove or restore apostrophes after converting.
Sentence case and proper nouns. Sentence case lowercases the whole text, then capitalizes only the first letter of each sentence, so "i visited NASA in june. it was fun." becomes "I visited nasa in june. It was fun." Re-capitalize names and acronyms yourself.

Pro tips

Rescue a Caps Lock accident with InVeRsE CaSe. Text typed as "hELLO wORLD" while Caps Lock inverted your Shift key flips back to "Hello World" in one click.
Acronyms split cleanly. "HTMLParser" converts to "htmlParser" with camelCase and "html_parser" with snake_case, because the word splitter detects where an acronym ends and the next word begins.
Only letters alternate. In aLtErNaTiNg CaSe, digits, spaces and punctuation stay in place and do not break the pattern: "abc 123 def" becomes "aBc 123 dEf".

Frequently asked questions

Which words does this Title Case converter capitalize?

Every word: the first letter becomes uppercase and the rest lowercase, so 'hello world example' becomes 'Hello World Example'. Style guides like AP and Chicago make exceptions for short words such as 'and', 'the' and 'of' — adjust those by hand if you follow a specific guide.

Is Title Case the same as Start Case?

In practice, yes. Both capitalize the first letter of every word. The term 'title case' sometimes implies style-guide exceptions for minor words, while 'start case' always capitalizes everything — which is what this tool does.

Does Title Case work on text that is in ALL CAPS?

Yes. The remaining letters of each word are lowercased first, so 'HELLO WORLD' becomes 'Hello World'. Acronyms that should stay uppercase, such as NASA or HTML, need to be restored manually.

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