Capitalization helps communicate the importance of specific words and can be used to indicate a change in meaning. To keep this effective, we need to limit what we capitalize.
Use sentence case most of the time. Capitalize the first letter of proper nouns (product names, countries, acronyms, and people's names) regardless of where they appear in a sentence. Don't capitalize feature names or pages of our UI unless they're at the beginning of a sentence. See this list for how to capitalize product, feature, and capabilities . Don't capitalize articles (a, an, the) or propositions (of, on, for, in, to, with, etc.) unless they're at the beginning of a sentence. Do Don't Top 5 transaction traces Top 5 Transaction Traces Lew Cirne is a proper noun. Lew cirne is a proper noun. Try the new dashboards. Try the new Dashboards. Statue of Liberty Statue Of Liberty
Copy type Example 1,024+ bits of data Kb, Mb, Gb Headings, subheadings, and chart names Slowest 5 transactions
Copy type Example 1 bit of data 1 b File extensions json, gif, pdf Time periods am, pm Metrics over time rpm, ppm
Copy type Example Bytes of data B, KB, MB Abbreviated numbers above 999 1K, 1M, 1B Acronyms API, CDN, HTTP Time zones PDT, CST, BCN
Memory, bandwidth, and drive space abbreviations have varied rules for capitalization.
Always include a space between the value and unit of measurement. A single bit of data is lowercase (b) whereas 1,204+ bits is sentence case (13 Kb). Bytes are always uppercase (13 KB, 512 MB). Weights and distance are lowercase with no periods after the abbreviation (ft, lbs, km).
Do Don't 32 Kb/s 32 kb/s 16 s 16s 0.43 MB .43 MB 15 ft 15 ft.