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Andreas Kling 66c04b98f1 Documentation: Add HIG document about writing UI text 
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Guidelines for user interface text in SerenityOS

Capitalization

SerenityOS employs two capitalization styles:

  • Book title capitalization
  • Sentence-style capitalization

Book title capitalization

In this style, we capitalize the first letter of the first and last word, as well as all words in between, except articles (a, an, the); the seven coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so); and prepositions with up to four letters (at, by, for, with, into, ...)

Examples:

  • Create New Layer
  • Copy URL
  • Move to Front
  • Save and Exit
  • Sort by Name

Used for:

  • Button text
  • Icon labels
  • Menu names
  • Menu items
  • Tab titles
  • Window titles
  • Tooltips

Sentence-style capitalization

This style follows basic English sentence capitalization. We capitalize the first letter of the first word, along with the first letter of proper names, weekdays, etc.

Examples:

  • An error occurred
  • Use system defaults
  • Copy the selected text
  • Enable Linux compatibility hacks

Used for:

  • Check box labels
  • Group box labels
  • List items
  • Messages (as in message boxes)
  • Radio button labels
  • Status bar text
  • Text box labels