If you have ever seen a set of construction documents, or seen an architect writing, you may have seen a lot of upper-case. I was asking myself, why is this the norm? Why do architects write in all caps?
Architects write in all caps for the legibility and standardization. Largely, this is from the days of all documents being produced by hand, where achieving regularity from person to person was very important. Upper-case also helps to keep construction documents neat and tidy.
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