Title Case Converter

There is no convert button. The title updates as you type, so you can adjust the wording and watch the capitals change.

1. Type or paste one title or headline into the Input box. The text can be in any case, because the tool lowercases it first.
2. Read the result in the box labelled Title Case Text.
3. Check proper nouns, acronyms and the word after any colon, which the tool cannot judge for you.
4. Press Copy to use the title, Download .txt to save it, or Use as input to edit further.

For example how to train your dragon becomes How to Train Your Dragon, and PLEASE READ THIS becomes Please Read This. The processing happens in your browser, so draft headlines and unpublished titles stay private.

The text is lowercased and split into words at spaces and line breaks. Each word is then capitalised unless it exactly matches one of these small words: a, an, the, and, but, or, for, nor, of, on, in, at, to, by, up, as, vs, via, per, so, yet, from, into, with, over. The first and last word of the whole text are always capitalised, so a title never ends on a small word.

Verbs such as is, be and go are not on the list, so they are capitalised, which is correct. Longer prepositions such as about and between are capitalised, but from, into, with and over stay lowercase. That choice is closest to Chicago style. AP and APA capitalise words of four letters or more, so if you follow either guide, capitalise those four words after converting.

The rules are mechanical, so a few patterns need a look.

• The word after a colon. Most guides capitalise it. The tool treats the whole text as one run, so learning from the past: a guide with tips gives Learning from the Past: a Guide with Tips. Change the a to A.
• Small words next to punctuation. A word with punctuation stuck to it, such as in: or a small word in brackets or quotation marks, does not match the list and is capitalised.
• Hyphenated words. Only the first part is capitalised, so self-help becomes Self-help.
• Phrasal verbs. In Sign up Today the particle up stays lowercase, though many editors capitalise it.
• Accented first letters. A word that starts with an accented letter, such as élan, is converted incorrectly, with the capital landing on the second letter. Fix those by hand.
• Several titles at once. Only the first word of the first line and the last word of the last line are forced to a capital. A later line that begins with a small word, such as the, keeps it lowercase. Convert titles one at a time, or check the start of each line.
• Names and acronyms. McDonald, iPhone and NASA need manual correction.

Title case is the convention for books, films, articles and many headlines in print. Many websites have moved to sentence case for headings, so look at how existing headlines on your site are written and match them. The capitalized case converter gives every word a capital, which suits names and labels, while the sentence case converter suits headings written as sentences.

Titles also have to fit. Search results usually show only around 60 characters of a page title, and the character counter will tell you where you stand. When the title is ready, the meta tag generator builds the title and description tags for the page.