All lowercase letters: Difference between revisions

 

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* "i'm lovin' it." actually, all [[McDonald's|mcdonalds]]' advertising since the switch to this slogan.

* vitamin water labels.

* the got milk? commercials.

 

* in addition to his more well known logo-like signature, [[Norman Rockwell|norman rockwell]] occasionally signed his paintings in all lowercase cursive.

 

* the title of ''[[Legolas By Laura|legolas by laura]]''

 

* because it is written in the perspective of two different people, half of the john green/david levithan book ''[[Will Grayson Will Grayson|will grayson will grayson]]'' is written this way.

* in [[Douglas Coupland|douglas coupland]]'s novel ''jpod'', a number of characters from a lesbian commune spell their names entirely in lower case, because they see upper case as "privileging" certain letters over others.

* this is how angolan-portuguese writer [[Valter Hugo Mae|valter hugo mãe]] writes his entire books and signs his own name.

 

* ''[[dinnerladies]]''' title text.

* ''[[jackass]]'' credits

* ''[[thirtysomething]]''

 

* lots of song lyrics are written this way without punctuation to give a flow-of-consciousness feel and look more poetic. see also poetry, below.

* sillyworld by stone sour is written this way

* [[BTS (band)|bts]] member j-hope usually stylizes his artistic name under this trope. also, the second mixtape member rm released, ''mono.'' has its title and all its tracks names styled in lowercase.

 

* [[Adult Swim|[adult swim]]]'s logo.

* [[TBS|tbs]] (the one in the usa, not the japanese one) is stylized with all lowercase letters, as is the slogan "very funny".

 

* ''[[Jump Start|jump start]]'' uses this for the speech of small children, originally as a [[Translation Convention|translation convention]].

* moe from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes|calvin and hobbes]]'' talks like this, in addition to having his own [[Painting the Medium|distinctive font]].

 

* this and [[No Punctuation Period|lack of punctuation]] (other than parentheses) were the signature style (and it spawned plenty of [[Follow the Leader|imitators]]) of e e cummings poetry

* [[Archy and Mehitabel|archy the cockroach]] types in lowercase because his body is too small to depress the shift key and another key at the same time.

 

* ''[[heretic]]'' and ''[[hexen]]'', except for the title logos.

* ''[[Cat Planet|cat planet]]''

* several characters in ''[[Undertale|undertale]]'' talk this way, more notoriously sans, napstablook, and alphys. the usual implication is that characters that speak in lowercase do so to accurately represent their depressive, low self-esteem personalities (blooky, alphys at her lowest), or because they are too lazy to capitalize properly (sans). {{spoiler|nope, turns out sans is in the "depressive, low self-esteem" group too, he just disguise it better.}}

 

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court|gunnerkrigg court]]'' uses the [http://www.blambot.com/font_aleandwenches.shtml ale and wenches font], which has some letters look the same in uppercase and lowercase. tom siddell's melancholic use of this and [[No Punctuation Period|no punctuation]] are also evident in his [[Concept Art|concept art]] [http://tea-san.deviantart.com/art/Gamma-Zeta-5061159 here]{{Dead link}}.

* because most dialogue in ''[[homestuck]]'' is typed, not spoken, several characters 'speak' like this, including jade, john, dave, aradia, sollux, nepeta and eridan.

* ''[[Minus (Webcomic)|minus]]'' (title text)

* ''[[Pictures for Sad Children|pictures for sad children]]'' uses this to add to its cynical and fatalist tone

* '''in ''[[The Order of the Stick|the order of the stick]]'' orcs talk like this.'''

** capital letters intrigue mungu.

** also, the cartoonist goes by an all-lowercase "fluffy," although this is claimed more to be for typographic purity.

 

* [http://www.metroid2002.com/ this] famous ''[[metroid]]'' fansite uses this style.

* sloshy from "[[Homestar Runner|homestar runner]]" uses this in their logo.

* the guardian newspapers title is written like this, [[Private Eye|along with the rest of the paper]].

* [[Zachary Quinto|zachary quinto]] writes his rare blog postings and his twitter in all lowercase letters. sometimes [[Wall of Text|without paragraph breaks]], as well.

 

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[[category:Language Tropes]]

[[category:Painting the Medium]]