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So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero's De Finibus in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type specimen book.
So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero's De Finibus in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type specimen book.
It's difficult to find examples of lorem ipsum in use before Letraset made it popular as a dummy text in the 1960s, although McClintock says he remembers coming across the lorem ipsum passage in a book of old metal type samples.
So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero's De Finibus in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type specimen book.
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Don't bother typing “lorem ipsum” into Google translate. If you already tried, you may have gotten anything from "NATO" to "China", depending on how you capitalized the letters. The bizarre translation was fodder for conspiracy theories, but Google has since updated its “lorem ipsum” translation to, boringly enough, “lorem ipsum”.
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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 the days before computerized design a little less painstaking.
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Lorem ipsum is so ubiquitous because it is so versatile. Select how many paragraphs you want, copy, paste, and break the lines wherever it is convenient. Real copy doesn't work that way.
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So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. It's like the props in a furniture store—filler text makes it look like someone is home.
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One word of caution: make sure your client knows that lorem ipsum is filler text. You don't want them wondering why you filled their website with a foreign language, and you certainly don't want anyone prematurely publishing it.
55 min agoComing full circle, the internet's remixing of the now infamous lorem ipsum passage has officially elevated it to pop culture status.
23 hours agoThere was that time artists at Sequence opted to hand-Sharpie the lorem ipsum passage on a line of paper bags they designed for Chipotle—the result being a mixture of avant-garde, inside joke, and Sharpie-stained tables.
YesterdayBelow are the original Latin passages from which Lorem Ipsum was derived, paired with their 1914 translations by H. Rackham.
55 min agoOne word of caution: make sure your client knows that lorem ipsum is filler text. You don't want them wondering why you filled their website with a foreign language, and you certainly don't want anyone prematurely publishing it.
55 min agoComing full circle, the internet's remixing of the now infamous lorem ipsum passage has officially elevated it to pop culture status.
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Carter 33 min ago
Explore the far reaches of the galaxy with this space-themed dummy text generator, with quotes from TV classics like Star Trek and real astronauts themselves.
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A Gary Busey themed lorem ipsum generator to fill your project with a never ending stream of “buseyisms,” quotes taken directly from the actor's extensive filmography.
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Explore the far reaches of the galaxy with this space-themed dummy text generator, with quotes from TV classics like Star Trek and real astronauts themselves.
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A Gary Busey themed lorem ipsum generator to fill your project with a never ending stream of “buseyisms,” quotes taken directly from the actor's extensive filmography.
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