For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names due to capital letters being stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...
The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory. Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot o ...
But with road signs, the priority is to comprehend what you’re seeing from as far away as possible—and a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters is better at accomplishing that than all caps.