Capitalization helps communicate the importance of specific words and can be used to indicate a change in meaning. To keep this effective, we need to limit what we capitalize.
Basics As of February 2023, use title case for three types of UI content:Page titles Left navigation (main navigation) Titles on All Capabilities page tiles Use sentence case the rest of the time. Capitalize the first letter of proper nouns (product names, countries, acronyms, and people's names) regardless of where they appear in a sentence. Capitalize product names as described on the page Product and capabilities: capitalization, trademarks, and usage . Don't capitalize articles (a, an, the) or prepositions (of, on, for, in, to, with, etc.) unless they're at the beginning of a sentence. Do Don't Top 5 transaction traces Top 5 Transaction Traces New Relic is a proper noun. New relic is a proper noun. Try the new dashboards. Try the new Dashboards. Statue of Liberty Statue Of Liberty
Capitalization by location Copy type Example Left navigation, page title, capability tile Errors Inbox Subheading, body copy, etc. Explore and triage all your errors in one place with errors inbox. Button, link, etc. Explore errors inbox
Title case Copy type Example Navigation or page title Errors Inbox, Metrics & Events, Service Levels Proper nouns in any location Send your Amazon CloudWatch logs to New Relic.
Sentence case Copy type Example bits of data Kb, Mb, Gb Subheadings and chart names Slowest 5 transactions Buttons Create a dashboard Descriptions and body copy Have you tried the new errors inbox?
Lowercase Copy type Example 1 bit of data 1 b File extensions json, gif, pdf Metrics over time rpm, ppm
Uppercase Copy type Example Bytes of data B, KB, MB Abbreviated numbers above 999 1 k, 1 M, 1 B Acronyms API, CDN, HTTP Time zones PDT, CST, BCN Time periods AM or PM
Units of measurement Memory, bandwidth, and drive space abbreviations have varied rules for capitalization.
Always include a space between the value and unit of measurement. A single bit of data is lowercase (b) whereas 1,204+ bits is sentence case (13 Kb). Bytes are always uppercase (13 KB, 512 MB). Weights and distance are lowercase with no periods after the abbreviation (ft, lbs, km).
Do Don't 32 Kb/s 32 kb/s 16 s 16s 0.43 MB .43 MB 15 ft 15 ft.