Style
Using all capitals is acceptable in a title; however, consider a small‑cap style for a
slightly more readable look, especially if using a bold font in conjunction with the
uppercase style. A drop‑cap for the first letter may also be used. Some argue that all
capitals is never okay because people cannot easily decipher the letter codes as they
read when the letters are all the same height. As the argument goes, lowercase letters
are read easily because of the different heights of various letters, resulting in specific
shapes for each word. These shapes allow a reader to scan a word rather than look at
it letter by letter. This makes words that are in all capitals, and therefore all the same
shape, harder to read, resulting in more time taken to read the same words. However,
a title on a layout usually needs a lot of emphasis in order to attain its proper placement as number one or two in the hierarchy of layout elements. Often, the all‑capital