# ALL CAPS POST ==\> all caps post **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 11, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998 "2017-07-11T14:30:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/1 "2017-07-11T14:30:37Z")
In the “Just punch lines” thread, I posted a punch line in all caps. (In the joke, it’s supposed to be the voice of God, coming out of the sky.) But the post, consisting only of the text: DAMMIT, MISSED AGAIN! got turned into: dammit, missed again! (Didn’t have quite the same ring to it. Jehovah just doesn’t come across the same when his voice looks more like e.e. cummings.) So, we’ve got a mechanism for turning all-caps posts into no-caps posts, do we? Got it. Guess I missed the memo, but I can understand the reason for it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/2 "2017-07-11T14:38:22Z")
THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM.banana ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/3 "2017-07-11T14:46:31Z")
DAMMlT, MlSSED AGAlN! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/4 "2017-07-11T14:50:25Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > DAMMlT, MlSSED AGAlN! FAKE CAPITAL LETTERS? FOR SHAME!fnord ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/5 "2017-07-11T15:00:02Z")
DAMMIT, aMISSED AGAIN! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/6 "2017-07-11T15:02:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM.banana And an elegant one it is! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/7 "2017-07-11T15:09:16Z")
I wonder if you can get around it this way? That would be a “no.” ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/8 "2017-07-11T15:13:30Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > And an elegant one it is! POST BACKGROUNDS AREN’T WHITE SO F8F8F8 IS EVEN MORE ELEGANT, IMO.See? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/9 "2017-07-11T16:01:22Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > POST BACKGROUNDS AREN’T WHITE SO F8F8F8 IS EVEN MORE ELEGANT, IMO.See? No. Still using white, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/10 "2017-07-11T16:52:11Z")
F8F8F8 is offwhite. FFFFF is white. \*\*This is text in FFFFFF. This is text in WHITE. This is text in F8F8F8.\*\* I increased the size and bolded the text to help show the difference. At least on my screen, the first two examples are still visible, but the third is not without highlighting the post. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/11 "2017-07-11T16:59:50Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > F8F8F8 is offwhite. FFFFF is white. > > \*\*This is text in FFFFFF. > > This is text in WHITE. > > This is text in F8F8F8.\*\* > > I increased the size and bolded the text to help show the difference. At least on my screen, the first two examples are still visible, but the third is not without highlighting the post. Mine looks the same for all three. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/12 "2017-07-11T17:04:41Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/13 "2017-07-11T20:53:57Z")
It seems different devices (or browsers) get served different style sheets. The F8F8F8 trick works great on all my PC & Wintablet browsers. It’s certainly the trick I use when I need it. But on Tapatalk on my Android phone **Inner Stickler** ’s FFFFFF test is fully invisible, his WHITE text is dead black (😕) and his F8F8F8 text is a subtle low-density gray barely visible against the whiter (fully white?) background. IOW, color choice is not a general solution to camouflaging text for all users on all devices. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/14 "2017-07-11T20:57:51Z")
I can see the first two on my phone if I squint real hard. I can’t see the third. Either way, none of the three really leaps out at me. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/15 "2017-07-11T21:00:28Z")
Late add: I also tried opening the thread straight from the website (no app) in Chrome on my Android phone. It worked like my PCs do: F8F8F8 is the background color. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/16 "2017-07-11T21:04:57Z")
how did **Kayaker** do it in post #3? mc nm, I see lT now ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/17 "2017-07-11T21:21:11Z")
And the font I see for SDMB posts also shows l and I as slightly different: l has a slight rightward tail on the bottom, and is a little narrower on the upright part. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/18 "2019-05-08T00:48:56Z")
Test: THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLE ETA:[Why didn’t this work a few minutes ago when I posted this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21630340&postcount=14) ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/19 "2019-05-08T01:53:20Z")
𝔻𝔸𝕄𝕄𝕀𝕋, 𝕄𝕀𝕊𝕊𝔼𝔻 𝔸𝔾𝔸𝕀ℕ! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998/20 "2019-05-08T01:55:54Z")
𝓓𝓐𝓜𝓜𝓘𝓣, 𝓜𝓘𝓢𝓢𝓔𝓓 𝓐𝓖𝓐𝓘𝓝! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps-post-all-caps-post/790998.md?page=2)