History Main / AllLowercaseLetters

* zacharyquinto writes his rare blog postings and his twitter in all lowercase letters. sometimes without paragraph breaks, as well.

* zachary quinto writes his rare blog postings and his twitter in all lowercase letters. sometimes without paragraph breaks, as well.

* [[EECummings e. e. cummings]] did this sometimes, and now everybody writes his name this way.

* moe from ''{{calvin and hobbes}}'' talks like this, in addition to having his own [[PaintingTheFourthWall distinctive font]].

* in the hungarian book ''pál utcai fiúk'' (''the boys from paul street'') nemecsek ernő's name is written in the titular gang's book with all lower case and with black ink as a mean of dishonor. due to [[PopCulturalOsmosis pop cultural osimosis]], doing this deliberately in a publication became a mean of insult in hungarian.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{jump start}}'' uses this for the speech of small children, originally as a {{translation convention}}.
* moe from ''{{calvin and hobbes}}'' talks like this, in addition to having his own [[PaintingTheFourthWall distinctive font]].

* many instances of latin and greek texts use only lower-case letters, since the original texts in the classical period had no capital or lower case distinction, and everything was capitalized. it is much easier on the eyes to read all lower-case letters, however, in most modern typefaces, so the modern practice inverts the [[BoldInflation completely capitalized]] original text. such ancient texts in their original forms also contained {{no punctuation period}}, but are given some in modern renditions

a stylistic choice in which all text is in lowercase letters.[[spoiler:NOT LIKE THIS]] it can be thought of as the opposite of [[BoldInflation writing in all caps]] when [[LargeHam emphasizing a point]], in which case it can be used to give a melancholic feel to whatever you're writing. it is [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma not generally thought of as orthographically correct]], giving it (if only in the eyes of advertisers) a casual, hip feel.

a stylistic choice in which all text is in lowercase letters. it can be thought of as the opposite of [[BoldInflation writing in all caps]] when [[LargeHam emphasizing a point]], in which case it can be used to give a melancholic feel to whatever you're writing. it is [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma not generally thought of as orthographically correct]], giving it (if only in the eyes of advertisers) a casual, hip feel.

* chaos from {{xenosaga}} which is done in contrast to the all caps KOS-MOS

* ''[[{{Ptitlechw7pjpl}} minus.]]'' (title text)

* ''[[{{XKCD}} xkcd]]'' in some of the earlier comics.

** currently averted with the homestuck and xenosaga examples.

* many instances of latin and greek texts use only lower-case letters, since the original texts in the classical period had no capital or lower case distinction, and everything was capitalized. it is much easier on the eyes to read all lower-case letters, however, in most modern typefaces, so the modern practice inverts the [[BoldInflation completely capitalized]] original text. such ancient texts in their original forms also contained NoPunctuationPeriod, but are given some in modern renditions

* two of the founding members of [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas the black eyed peas]], will.i.am and apl.de.ap.

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

*** [[BoldInflation THOUGH MORE OF THEM TYPE LIKE THIS.]]

a stylistic choice in which all text is in lowercase letters. it can be thought of as the opposite of [[BoldInflation writing in all caps]] when [[LargeHam emphasizing a point]], in which case it can be used to give a melancholic feel to whatever you're writing. it is [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma not generally thought of as orthographically correct]], giving it a (if only in the eyes of advertisers) a casual, hip feel.

* an early example is [[TheBeatles the beatles]]' second album ''with the beatles''

* [[ToriAmos tori amos]]. she even has an album title in all lowercase letters (''from the choirgirl hotel'').

* [[PeterGabriel peter gabriel]] signs his work as such.

* [[{{Silverchair}} silverchair]]
* [[{{Slint}} slint]]'s landmark album ''spiderland'' has (very minimal) liner notes written in this style.

* [[{{Mothy}} mothy]]
* [[{{Iamamiwhoami}} iamamiwhoami]]; their song titles (such as "b", "u-1", and "; john") are all lowercase letters as well