User Interface Capitalization Guidelines

UI Item

Capitalization Style

Example in Mifos

Tab labels

Headline

Clients & Accounts

Group labels

Headline

Manage Accounts
System Information

Sub-group labels

Sentence

Organization preferences
Manage loan products

Group items

Sentence

View system users
Define new savings product
Capitalization of resulting pane titles should match the capitalization of the item that was clicked.

Left nav region titles

Headline

Administrative Tasks
Quick Start

Process steps

Sentence

Select data
Enter data

Text box labels

Sentence

Holiday name
From date

List box labels

Sentence

Repayment rule
Current status

List box contents

Headline

Same Day
Next Working Day
Decline Balance Equal-Principal Installment
- Select - (note single hyphen + space before and after)

Table titles

Headline

 

Table contents

Sentence

 

Check box lables

Sentence

Include in loan cycle counter

Radio button lables

Sentence

Same for all loans
By last loan amount