fix broken forced case (#3509)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/lettering/font.py b/lib/lettering/font.py
index a554183e..cb399890 100644
--- a/lib/lettering/font.py
+++ b/lib/lettering/font.py
@@ -363,16 +363,16 @@ class Font(object):
         skip = []
         previous_is_binding = True
 
+        # forced letter case
+        if self.letter_case == "upper":
+            word = word.upper()
+        elif self.letter_case == "lower":
+            word = word.lower()
+
         for i, character in enumerate(word):
             if i in skip:
                 continue
 
-            # forced letter case
-            if self.letter_case == "upper":
-                character = character.upper()
-            elif self.letter_case == "lower":
-                character = character.lower()
-
             glyph, glyph_len, binding = glyph_set.get_next_glyph(word, i, previous_is_binding)
             previous_is_binding = binding