📰 Text Case for Headlines

What This Tool Does

This tool formats headlines into proper title case — capitalizing the right words according to standard style conventions. Paste a headline and it applies title case correctly, capitalizing the important words while leaving small words like articles and short prepositions in lowercase (except where they begin the headline). It is a quick way to make headlines, titles, and headings look polished and professionally styled.

Title case looks simple but has real rules that are easy to get wrong — knowing which small words stay lowercase, and handling the first and last words correctly. Doing it by hand is fiddly and inconsistent, especially across many headlines. This tool applies the conventions automatically, giving you correctly styled headlines every time.

How Title Case Works

Title case capitalizes the first letter of the major words in a heading — nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns — while keeping minor words lowercase. The minor words are typically articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or), and short prepositions (in, on, at, to). The important exception is that the first and last words of the title are always capitalized regardless of what they are, so a title never begins or ends with a lowercase word.

These rules are what make title case trickier than it looks. It is easy to wrongly capitalize a small word, or to wrongly lowercase one that should be capital, and people are inconsistent about it. There are also slightly different style conventions, but the common principle — capitalize the significant words, lowercase the minor connecting ones, always capitalize the first and last — produces the clean, professional look readers expect from headlines and titles. Applying these rules automatically ensures consistency, which matters when you have many headlines to style.

Quick Tips

• The first and last words are always capitalized, whatever they are.
• Small words — articles, short conjunctions, and short prepositions — stay lowercase in the middle.
• Major words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) are capitalized.
• Applying it automatically keeps many headlines consistent, which manual styling struggles to do.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is title case?

It is a capitalization style for headlines and titles that capitalizes the major words while keeping minor words like articles and short prepositions lowercase — except the first and last words, which are always capitalized.

Which words stay lowercase in title case?

Typically articles (a, an, the), short coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or), and short prepositions (in, on, to) — unless they are the first or last word, which are always capitalized.

Why use title case for headlines?

Because it is the conventional, professional style for headlines and titles. Applying it correctly and consistently makes content look polished, while inconsistent capitalization looks careless.

Is my text private?

Yes. The formatting happens entirely in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded or stored. You can format headlines privately.