Lowercase Is a Mood

The whole site is one click away from lowercase. There is a bare a/A button in the masthead, next to Home. Click it and every heading, title, date and excerpt renders lowercase. Click again and it goes back. The active letter is bold, so the button says which mode you are in.

Display-only

The feature is a single CSS rule applied to the body when the toggle is on:

body.lc, body.lc * {
  text-transform: lowercase !important;
}

That is the whole thing. It is a rendering choice, not a content change. The source, the front matter, the page titles and the RSS feed all stay proper case. Search engines read the unmodified markup. So this is free: a purely visual preference that costs nothing in legibility of the underlying content, and nothing in SEO.

Why bother

Lowercase reads quieter. All-caps carries weight and formality; lowercase drops the volume. For a personal site that is mostly short notes and links, that is the right register. It is also a small joke: a site whose whole point is few words, styled to say them as softly as possible.

The state persists in localStorage, so the mood survives reloads.

One button, two letters

The button itself is just a and A with a slash. No box, no border, no icon. The active letter gets weight. It is the smallest control that can state a binary choice about typography, which is exactly what it is.