History Main / AllLowercaseLetters

* '''in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' orcs talk like this.'''

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also see [[NoPunctuationPeriod no punctuation period]].

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

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

* the title of ''[[FanFic/LegolasByLaura legolas by laura]]''

* because it is written in the perspective of two different people, half of the john green/david levithan book ''[[WillGraysonWillGrayson will grayson will grayson]]'' is written this way.
* in [[DouglasCoupland 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.
* feminist author {{bell hooks}}' pen name.
* author [[AndrewJOffutt andrew j. offutt]] likes to write his name in all lowercase.
* [[EECummings e. e. cummings']] editor published him this way to make him stand out, and now everybody writes his name this way.
* don marquis wrote a series of newspaper columns in the early 20th century supposedly typed by archy the cockroach, who, while he had the strength to work the keys (by climbing up on top of the type writer and jumping down on the keys) did not have enough strength to work the shift. there was a whole cast of characters in archy's world, including a cat mehitabel. some of the {{archy and mehitabel}} columns were collected into a series of books.
* 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 osmosis]], doing this deliberately in a publication became a mean of insult in hungarian.
* [[Literature/AfterTheQuake after the quake]]'s chapter titles are all written in lowercase. the english version of the book also has the title in lowercase.

* [[TheImmortalsSeries the immortals series]] does it on covers. even the author's name, yes.

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

* bond, not to be confused with [[{{JamesBond}} the other guy]]
* [[Music/TheCars the cars]]

* [[NineInchNails nine inch nails]]
* [[Music/PeterGabriel peter gabriel]] signs his work as such.

* [[Music/{{Silverchair}} silverchair]]
* [[Music/{{Slint}} slint]]'s landmark album ''spiderland'' has (very minimal) liner notes written in this style.
* an early example is [[Music/TheBeatles the beatles]]' second album ''with the beatles''
* [[Music/{{Mothy}} mothy]]
* [[Music/{{Iamamiwhoami}} iamamiwhoami]]; their song titles (such as "b", "u-1", and "; john") are all lowercase letters as well

* the [[BeastieBoys beastie boys]] albums ''paul's boutique'' and ''hello nasty'' take this trope [[UpToEleven up to eleven]] by having the liner notes be a simple fold-out with all the lyrics printed in lowercase without punctuation, making for a [[WallOfText wall of text]] that can be difficult to follow at times. ''check your head'' side-steps the issue entirely by not having lyrics, while ''ill communication'' has all the lyrics written normally but in an eye-strainingly small font.

* Creator/AdultSwim.

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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 [[PaintingTheMedium distinctive font]].

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* ''{{cat planet}}''
* ''{{the white chamber}}'' (title of the game)

* planet's speech in ''[[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri sid meier's alpha centauri]]'' is never capitalized. it also constantly refers to specific people as "earth<name>" (e.g. earthdierdre).
* ''luminesweeper'' for {{game boy advance}} uses lowercase arial bold throughout its on-screen text.

* vell-os telepathy in ''[[{{escape velocity}} ev nova]]'' is depicted as all-lowercase with {{no punctuation period}}.
* ''{{dont take it personally babe it just aint your story}}''

* ''Webcomic/{{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}} are also evident in his {{concept art}} [[http://tea-san.deviantart.com/art/Gamma-Zeta-5061159 here]].

* ''[[Webcomic/{{XKCD}} xkcd]]'' in some of the earlier comics.
* '''in ''Webcomic/{{order of the stick}}'' orcs talk like this.'''

* ''[[DamagedTape damaged tape]]'' used to be titled in all lowercase, before it moved to an official website--the titles of each new strip are still this trope, however.

* ''{{chainsawsuit}}'', though it occasionally uses capital letters for emphasis.
* davan in ''{{something positive}}'' writes like this in instant messenger. it becomes a minor plot point when eva's ex pretends to be davan online, but fails to fool jason because he writes with correct capitalization.
* ickle's name from ''[[MyMilkToof my milk toof]]'' is always spelt in lowercase to exaggerate his size.
* alda henning from the ''[[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20101018.php breeder]]'' arc in ''[[{{Unity}} unity]]'', who only capitalizes the name of her mistress

* luna lovegood speaks this way in ''[[Webcomic/VoldemortsChildren voldemort's children]]'', even though no other character does.

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* sloshy from "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner homestar runner]]" uses this in their logo.
* indie developer [[http://www.auntiepixelante.com auntie pixelante's blog]].
* mr.coconut, the [[{{Neopets}} neopets]] editorial's most recent meme.

* [[YouTube youtube]] video captions generated using their transcribe audio feature are often like this.

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* lampshaded in an episode of {{the simpsons}} where marge tried a {{bland name product}} version of vitamin water, and after noticing the label was in all-lowercase, commented that it's like drinking e.e. cummings.

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* [[SerialKiller serial killer]] ted bundy always signed letters like this: "peace, ted"
* a whole lot of internet forum users. sometimes inverted by having every letter capitalized like [[TitleCase title case]].

* officially, the "it's a small world" attraction at [[DisneyThemeParks disney theme parks]] is "properly" spelled with all lowercase letters. it's still frequently referred to using capitalization though, even by disney themselves.

* many transcriptions of latin and greek texts use only lower-case letters. this is because the original texts in the classical period inverted this trope - they 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}} nor any spaces, but are given spaces and some punctuation in modern renditions.

* [[ZacharyQuinto zachary quinto]] writes his rare blog postings and his twitter in all lowercase letters. sometimes without paragraph breaks, as well.
* christopher poole (aka, moot, mootykins) creator of [[TheImageboardThatMustNotBeNamed 4chan]] and it's spin-off canv.as always types like this when replying to his users, due to the [[InternetTroll nature of users]] in question no one knows if it's purposeful or if he's a moron.

* ''[[{{Ptitle4ag27p7v}} pictures for sad children]]'' uses this to add to its cynical and fatalist tone

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

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* ''{{heretic}}'' and ''{{hexen}}'', except for the title logos.

* ''[[{{DamagedTape}} damaged tape]]'' used to be titled in all lowercase, before it moved to an official website--the titles of each new strip are still this trope, however.
* ''[[{{Achewood}} achewood's]]'' roast beef speaks like this dogg complete with no punctuation because he is hella quiet and subdued very much a defining characteristic

* AdultSwim.

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* sloshy from "[[HomestarRunner homestar runner]]" uses this in their logo.

* [[Bjork | björk]]

* [[Bjork björk]]

* this is how angolan-portuguese author valter hugo mãe writes his entire books and signs his own name.

* thisis how angolan-portuguese author valter hugo mãe writes his entire books and signs his own name.

* as a result of originally being forum names, a number of [[LetsPlay lets players]]. ones that come up regularly here include {{slowbeef}}, {{pokecapn}} and medibot.

* {{adult swim}} is, of course, stylized as [adult swim].

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.

also see [[NoPunctuationPeriod no punctuation period]]