Capitalization
Title case
With this type of case, all words are capitalized, except for minor words that are not the first or last word of the title.
Elements using “Title Case”
- Page titles
- Table titles
- Graph titles
- Widget/Card titles
- Chart legends and axis descriptions
- Tabs
- Pills
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Words to capitalize
- Major words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and all words of 4 letters or more
- The first word of a title or a subtitle
- The first word after a colon or em dash in a heading
- The second part of hyphenated major words
- The second part of phrasal verbs: Sign Up
- Team names, including the word “team”
Words NOT to capitalize
- Articles (“the”, “an”, “a”)
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions (and, or, but)
- “To” in an infinitive
- “Report” and “tool” if they are not part of the title
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Sign up for Our Newsletter Award-winning Platform Contact Support team Select A Custom Plan Get Started With Semrush Organic Positions Report | Sign Up for Our Newsletter Award-Winning Platform Contact Support Team Select a Custom Plan Get Started with Semrush Organic Positions report |
Sentence case
With this type of case, most words in a titles or headings are in lowercase. You should capitalize only:
- The first word of the title, heading, or subtitle
- Proper nouns
Elements using “Sentence case”
- Modal window titles
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- Notice titles
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- Buttons
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- Field labels
- Checkboxes
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- Menus
- Dropdown items
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- Tags
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- Links
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- Bulleted and numbered lists
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- Filter names (including filters in the report headers)
- Company business units (Marketing department, R&D unit)







