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pattyclarke
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April 21, 2009
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Thoughts on capitalization for a menu design

  • April 21, 2009
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I hope I'm posting this correctly. Things have changed a lot since I frequented the Adobe forums years ago. I work part-time for a local restaurant in an accounting capacity and recently they asked me to redesign their bar menu. I'm enjoying the creative process of designing a pleasing look for the menu but I'm struggling with capitalization of menu item descriptions. Currently the menu is inconsistent with capitalizing words which I know is wrong, but I'm not sure what is the best way to go.

All menu items have a heading that is capitalized like "Salmon Sandwich" and then the description below will say "Grilled salmon, Applewood smoked bacon with Swiss cheese. Or, "Reuben Sandwich" —"Classic Reuben with corned beef, sauerkraut and swiss on rye with Russian dressing." Should swiss be capitalized, should Russian be capitalized, should something like Ortega chili be capitalized?

Thank you in advance for your thoughts.

Patty

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    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
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    May 9, 2009

    Patty,

    One of the casualties of the forum changeover was the renaming of this particular forum from ATM Mac and Type Forum to just Adobe Type when the two platforms (Mac and Windows) were merged, but still maintaining the old Typography Forum.

    Me feeling is that your question would generate a lot more interest over in the Typography Forum:

    http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/typography

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    pattyclarkeAuthor
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    May 12, 2009

    Thank you Ramon. I thought I was in the typography forum. Not easy to navigate this new set-up.

    Patty

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