On 2/16/2013 12:06 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
2013/2/16 Stephan Stiller <stephan.stil...@gmail.com>:
Of course in my worldview, all-caps writing is deprecated :-)
This is a presentation style which makes words more readable in some
conditions, notably on plates displayed on roads (cities are extremely
rarely written in lowercase, as this is more difficult to read from
far away when driving). Capitals anyway do not exclude preserving
distinctions (so there's a capital Ess-Tsett which preserves the
distinction with SS, anc accents are still present, even if they are
difficult to distinguish from far away on roads)
This may be a French thing.
A./
For US, see discussion here:
http://www.studio360.org/2011/jan/21/design-real-world/
For Germany, look at
http://www.ace-online.de/fileadmin/user_uploads/Der_Club/Presse-Archiv/Bilder/Verkehr/Autobahn/Autobahn_01.jpg
or google "Autobahnschilder" for more
PPS: Sweden has quite a bit of UPPERCASE, but seems to use mixed case
for some purposes (such as legends on warning signs and minor
destinations on road signs).
Deprecation only concerns long texts, presented in multiline
paragraphs, for which capitals make the text less easy to read.
