Posted on Friday 28 October 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Many professional designers will already know what Lorem Ipsum is, for the whole rest the following text will maybe look a bit like Latin with a few typos, but it will definitely not make much sense:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Now what is it good for? Let’s say you’re working on a website layout for a weblog. The content posted on the weblog will change each day, so you can’t use a definitive text as there simple is no definitive text. Now of course you could just copy and paste some random text, but that’s not really the optimal solution. Why?
Where text is visible in a document, people tend to focus on the textual content rather than upon overall presentation, so publishers use lorem ipsum when displaying a typeface or design in order to direct the focus to presentation. “Lorem ipsum” is also said to approximate a typical distribution of letters in English, which helps to shift the focus to presentation.
As you can see, there’s a real logical reason behind Lorem Ipsum. There are a lot of web services to generate Lorem Ipsum text, here’s one of them, but as a Mac user a Dashboard Widget would most likely be the prefered option and so it’s not surprising that there’s already more than one. My personal fav is this one.
Fredi
