November 16, 2008

PlEASE, PlEASE ME

As someone who works with type for a living, let me give you some advice: Don't mix uppercase letters with lowercase letters outside of title case scenarios. It is just bad news. The thing that is totally mindblowing is that it seems that when people make this mistake, they frequently do it with the one letter that is the worst possible letter to do it with: the letter L. For example:



You do realize that a lowercase L looks like an I, right? And when all of your letters are capitals except for the l, that it will look like a capital I? If you don't believe that this is a consistent mistake, check out this blog that is dedicated to the problem: www.lowercasel.blogspot.com. It is mindblowing to browse through the blog. It is like people are trying in be INTENTIONAllY confusing.

By the way, bonus points to Renée Zellweger for the additional grammar error on the word "Rock's".

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