Wrong letter cases

When someone writes a title with the wrong letter cases ex: "my Title", is this considered a typo? If not, what is the name of this error?

Solution 1:

A typo is unintentional mistyping, in contrast to other mistakes where you believe what you have typed is correct but it isn’t. Some examples:

• you mean to type t but accidentally type T,

• you typed the correct capitalization in a title but your software autocorrects it, to force the wrong formatting, and you fail to notice and prevent it.

When you mistakenly believe that it should be a T but are wrong (according to an accepted standard, or even just the opinion of your audience) that is not a typo, but a more culpable mistake. It's not a typing error.

If we didn’t make the error ourselves we don’t know if it is a typo or a misunderstanding of style, spelling, etc. However, we often make assumptions and call things typos if it seems likely that they are.

Some examples,

• “Uprgading to 6.0 from 5.8” would be called a typo since the author is assumed to have understood how to spell “upgrading” but accidentally swapped two letters.

• Capitalization that an observer sees, and believes to be an error of style, is more likely to be called a “mistake” not a “typo” when the observer can’t imagine how the mistake could have arisen just in something like a slip of the fingers on the keyboard.