lowercasing

Making letters small

Lowercasing is converting text to lowercase letters.

In computing and data processing, lowercasing standardizes strings for comparison or storage: The search function lowercases all queries before matching.

Editors lowercase words that shouldn't be capitalized: She spent an hour lowercasing the author's random capitals.

typography

minuscule

Extremely small in size

capitalizationUsing big letters properly
uppercaseCapital letter form
title caseCapitalizing principal words

sentence case · camelCase · formatting · ASCII · letterform · baseline · x-height · descender · typesetting · word processing

programming

text processing

Manipulating written digital content

normalizationAdjusting to a standard
case-insensitiveIgnoring letter capitalization
regexText-matching notation

parsing · comparison · hashing · API · concatenation · tokenization

accessibility

readability

Ease of understanding text

legibilityClearness of text
screen readerProgram converting text to audio
assistive technologyDisability-compensating devices and software

inclusive design · user-friendly · text-to-speech · font size · contrast · universal design · cognitive load · plain language

lowercasing

minuscule

text processing

readability

lowercasing

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