{"id":4187,"date":"2016-06-09T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2016-06-09T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:22:40","slug":"prejean-creative-tells-you-why-upper-and-lower-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/2016\/06\/09\/prejean-creative-tells-you-why-upper-and-lower-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Prejean Creative Tells You Why \u2013 Upper and Lower Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"facebook_like_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prejeancreative.com%2Fpc_blog%2F2016%2F06%2F09%2Fprejean-creative-tells-you-why-upper-and-lower-case%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=200\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:200px; height:20px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The terms \u201cuppercase\u201d and \u201clowercase\u201d have interesting origins that date back to the early days of the printing press. One of the earliest methods of printing involved painstakingly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typesetting\">arranging pieces of metal type<\/a> to form words and sentences. The raised type was then inked and printed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/640px-MetalTypeZoomIn.jpg\" alt=\"640px-MetalTypeZoomIn\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/640px-MetalTypeZoomIn.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/640px-MetalTypeZoomIn-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All those tiny pieces needed to be stored and organized, so typographers used special wooden boxes called cases. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/education\/grammar\/where-we-get-the-words-uppercase-and-lowercase\">Grammar Girl<\/a> has noted in her excellent blog, by convention, the capital letters were stored in the higher, or \u2018upper,\u2019 case, and the smaller letters were stored beneath, in the \u2018lower\u2019 case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4189\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/metal_type.jpg\" alt=\"metal_type\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/metal_type.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/metal_type-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prejeancreative.com\/pc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/metal_type-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\nEven though our modern type now resides in the computer, not wooden boxes, the terms \u2018uppercase\u2019 and \u2018lowercase\u2019 persist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><em>Image credit (top): Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terms \u201cuppercase\u201d and \u201clowercase\u201d have interesting origins that date back to the early days of the printing press. 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