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Title case isn’t accurate

  • December 23, 2022
  • 11 replies
  • 1322 views

The title case isn’t accurate. As it also capitalizes:

  1. articles (such as “a,” “an,” and “the”)
  2. conjunctions (such as “and,” “but,” and “or”), and
  3. prepositions (such as “at,” “by,” “of,” “to,” and “on”).

In my opinion, the better naming would be “Capitalize”. Figma team can also consider adding “Title Case” and “Sentence Case” options separately.

11 replies

Kat_Jenkinson

Yes, please! We have several components that require Title Case and it would be incredibly helpful to our designers if I could set it in the component


carynleiwe
  • New Participant
  • April 26, 2023

Yeah there’s a plugin called Proper Title Case but there are limitations with what I’m hoping to achieve

  • the plugin works on only one text block at a time. When selecting multiple text blocks, only one gets updated.

  • it cannot be applied on text styles, which is very important!


Kate_Paullin

Any improvement expected on this front? I’d love to build this in to our button components, but I can only do it if proper title case is used. Otherwise, it’s misleading and pointless.


Laurence_Davis

This would be really useful. Have used the plugin but it’s a bit of a manual workaround compared to the possibility of setting proper title case for components such as buttons and styles for headings etc.


Bri_Long
  • New Member
  • August 1, 2023

As a UI writer it would be amazing if there was a way to set our own Title Case guidelines (like always lowercase a, an, or unless starting a sentence). Complex lift for sure. But different brands can have different guidelines set by copy editors for Title Case handling (as is our case).


Brand_Yu
  • August 28, 2023

Keep this thread alive. I’d love to see the real Title Case.


  • November 26, 2023

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gerda
  • New Member
  • May 6, 2024

This topic existed before already, but got closed.
However, we still need a better Title Case option that doesn’t capitalize prepositions or articles, unless they’re the start word.

While each style guide might have some slight variation, there are enough commonalities that could be applied to how users expect Title Case to work.

One huge use case from the comments is to use the Title Case text style in components like buttons. Doing it manually without the case set is time consuming and open to errors.


Steven Ll.
  • New Member
  • May 7, 2025

+1

This feature would be useful!


Johnson_Greg
  • New Member
  • September 5, 2025

This would be helpful for designers working in any type of organization. Design teams typically create standards for how things like headings, navigation, form labels, button text, and many other things are capitalized. I’ve seen this first hand in product design, marketing, and advertising.

 

As mentioned by ​@gerda, it would be great to be able to choose from different style guide standards  (Chicago style, APA style, MLA style, or AP style) because different teams will choose to follow different standards for various reasons.


Lindsay Giachetti

Still not resolved? Don’t become AI’s lunch Fix now!

 

Look at the lengths users went to describe this issue. If ChatGPT can figure it out, so can Figma.