Do you really think graphic arts supply houses
So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of…
In particular, the garbled words of lorem ipsum bear
Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it,…
The passage experienced a surge in popularity during
Lorem ipsum, or lipsum as it is sometimes known, is dummy text used in laying out print, graphic or web designs. The…
Placeholder text will be too distracting.
So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. It’s like the props in a furniture…
To some, designing a website around placeholder
Among design professionals, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the filler text. Controversy, as in Death to Lorem Ipsum. The strength…
The same WordPress template might eventually be
So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. It’s like the props in a furniture…
The strength of lorem ipsum is its weakness: it doesn’t communicate.
Among design professionals, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the filler text. Controversy, as in Death to Lorem Ipsum. The strength…
The French lettering company Letraset manufactured a set
The decade that brought us Star Trek and Doctor Who also resurrected Cicero—or at least what used to be Cicero—in an attempt to make…
Don’t bother typing “lorem ipsum” into Google translate
Don’t bother typing “lorem ipsum” into Google translate. If you already tried, you may have gotten anything from “NATO” to “China”,…
McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that
As an alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of De…