Title Case Converter
Capitalise the first letter of every word and lower the rest, so a messy heading becomes a clean one in a single paste. Punctuation, spacing and line breaks are left exactly as they were.
This is start case: every word gets a capital. Editorial styles such as AP and Chicago lowercase short prepositions and articles, so if you need strict house style, treat this as the first pass rather than the last word.
Writing body copy rather than a heading? Use sentence case
Title Case Examples
Including the three cases where naive title-case converters produce visibly wrong output.
| Input | Output | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| the quick brown fox | The Quick Brown Fox | The basic conversion: every word capitalised. |
| don't stop believing | Don't Stop Believing | The apostrophe does not start a new word — "Don't", not "Don'T". |
| tHE mESSY hEADING | The Messy Heading | Stray capitals inside words are lowered, not preserved. |
| a tale of two cities | A Tale Of Two Cities | Every word is capitalised, including "of" — this is start case, not AP style. |
| top 10 tips for 2026 | Top 10 Tips For 2026 | Digits are untouched and do not break the word matching. |
| "quoted heading" here | "Quoted Heading" Here | A leading quotation mark does not stop the first letter being capitalised. |
| e-commerce and web-design | E-Commerce And Web-Design | Hyphens separate words, so both halves get a capital. |
| café société | Café Société | Accented letters capitalise correctly. |
How Title Case Is Applied
The whole conversion is a lowercase pass followed by one Unicode-aware regular expression, and each part of that expression exists for a reason.
The text is lowered first
Without this step, "tHE mESSY hEADING" would keep its interior capitals. Lowering first means the output is consistent regardless of how the input was capitalised.
Words are matched with a Unicode class
The pattern matches letters and numbers from any script, so accented and non-English words are handled the same way as ASCII. A word may also contain apostrophes, which is what keeps contractions whole.
The first letter is raised, not the first character
Raising the first character would fail on a word that starts with a quotation mark or bracket. Raising the first letter means '"quoted"' still becomes '"Quoted"'.
Hyphens separate words
A hyphen is not part of the word pattern, so "e-commerce" becomes "E-Commerce". That matches how most style guides treat hyphenated compounds in titles.
Title Case vs the Alternatives
Same heading, four treatments. Row two is what you want for anything longer than a headline.
Shared input: the lord of the rings: don't panic
| Transformation | Result | Reach for it when |
|---|---|---|
| Title Case | The Lord Of The Rings: Don't Panic | It is a heading, title, menu label or button. |
| Sentence case | The lord of the rings: don't panic | It is a sentence, subtitle or body copy. |
| UPPERCASE | THE LORD OF THE RINGS: DON'T PANIC | You want maximum emphasis on a short line. |
| lowercase | the lord of the rings: don't panic | You are using a deliberately lowercase style. |
Where Title Case Needs a Human
Automated title case gets you 90% of the way. These are the four places you should read the output before shipping it.
Short words are capitalised too
AP and Chicago lowercase articles, conjunctions and short prepositions unless they start the title. This tool capitalises them, so "The Wind In The Willows" needs manual correction to "The Wind in the Willows".
Acronyms are flattened
NASA becomes Nasa because the text is lowered first. Restore acronyms manually, or convert the rest of the heading and type the acronym back in.
Brand capitalisation is lost
Names styled unusually — iPhone, eBay, YouTube — come out as Iphone, Ebay and Youtube. Always check brand names after converting.
Roman numerals look wrong
"Part iii" becomes "Part Iii". Numerals in titles are common enough that it is worth scanning for them specifically.
Where Title Case Belongs
Different surfaces have different conventions, and using the wrong one is one of those small things that reads as careless.
Page titles and H1s
Title case is standard for page titles in most style guides. Keep it consistent across a site — mixing title and sentence case between pages is very visible in a search result listing.
Buttons and menu labels
Short interface labels almost always use title case. Anything longer than three words usually reads better in sentence case.
Spreadsheets and name lists
PROPER() does the same job but needs a helper column. For a one-off list of names, pasting here is faster — just check any name with unusual capitalisation afterwards.
Email subject lines
Title case in a subject line reads as formal and slightly promotional. Sentence case tends to test better for one-to-one email.
Reasons to Use Title Case
Standardising a set of headings
Running every heading in a document through the converter makes an inconsistent set uniform in seconds.
Cleaning up imported data
Names and titles exported from an old system often arrive in all caps. Title case makes them readable again in one pass.
Menu and product names
Product and menu names conventionally use title case, and consistency there matters more than which style guide you follow.
Fixing all-caps titles
An all-caps title converted to title case immediately reads faster, because the word shapes come back.
Frequently Asked Questions
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