Would lowercase alerts be easier to read?

Discontinued Software Weather Watcher - Suggestions
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Have you thought about making the weather alerts all lowercase instead of uppercase? I know the data comes in all uppercase but it’s difficult to read like that. Too bad it isn’t true mixed-case.

Here’s the options:

  1. Leave it uppercase.
  2. Use Lower-case. The easiest option.
  3. Use Sentence-case. Ignore the proper nouns at least apply capitals based on punctuation.

Here’s an example of all three - which is easiest for you to read?:

  1. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 6 AND 8 PM IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY AND BETWEEN 7 AND 9 PM EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE.

  2. the snow is expected to develop between 6 and 8 pm in the shenandoah valley and between 7 and 9 pm east of the blue ridge.

  3. The snow is expected to develop between 6 and 8 pm in the shenandoah valley and between 7 and 9 pm east of the blue ridge.

And some food for thought: Typographers recommend avoiding uppercase for long text because people read by words by shape, not letter-by-letter. Because uppercase text lacks the ascenders and descenders of the lowercase letters, we loose much of the word shape - slowing us down.

-Matt