🅰️ Title Case Converter

What This Tool Does

This tool converts your text into proper title case — the capitalization style used for headlines, titles, and headings. Paste a line of text and it capitalizes the words that should be capitalized while correctly leaving small words like “and,” “of,” and “the” lowercase, unless they begin the title. The result looks polished and professional, the way a well-edited headline should.

Getting title case right by hand is surprisingly fiddly, because the rules about which small words stay lowercase are easy to forget. This tool applies those rules consistently, so your headings, article titles, video titles, and email subject lines come out looking intentional rather than randomly capitalized.

The Rules of Title Case

Title case follows a clear convention. You capitalize the first and last words of the title no matter what, and you capitalize all the major words in between — nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. What stays lowercase are the short connecting words: articles like “a,” “an,” and “the,” short conjunctions like “and,” “but,” and “or,” and short prepositions like “of,” “in,” and “on.” The exception is when one of those small words is the very first or last word, in which case it gets capitalized too.

This is why “The Lord of the Rings” is capitalized the way it is — “The” is capitalized because it starts the title, “of” and the second “the” stay lowercase because they are small connecting words in the middle. Style guides differ slightly on the fine points, particularly around longer prepositions, but the convention above produces clean, professional titles that read correctly to almost everyone.

Quick Tips

• Capitalize the first and last words of every title, regardless of what they are.
• Keep short articles, conjunctions, and prepositions lowercase in the middle of a title.
• If you are writing for a specific publication, follow its style guide, which may differ on fine points.
• Avoid capitalizing every word — it is a common mistake that looks less polished than true title case.

Frequently Asked Questions

What words are not capitalized in title case?

Short articles (a, an, the), short conjunctions (and, but, or), and short prepositions (of, in, on) stay lowercase in the middle of a title. They are capitalized only when they are the first or last word.

Is title case the same as capitalizing every word?

No. Capitalizing every word is a different, less polished style. True title case deliberately leaves small connecting words lowercase, which is the convention used by publications and style guides.

Why is the first word always capitalized?

By convention, the first and last words of a title are always capitalized regardless of what they are, so even a title beginning with “The” or “A” starts with a capital letter.

Do different style guides disagree on title case?

Yes, on fine points like how to treat longer prepositions or certain short verbs. The common convention this tool uses produces clean, widely accepted results; follow a specific style guide if your publication requires one.