For the Love of Lorem
Got Some Lorem Ipsum?
If you are involved with print and/or website content and technology, you're probably quite familiar with "Laurem ipsum" text. It's the placeholder text many layout designers need to help fill their designs with psudo content. Designers use this faux text to see how content flows in the sections of any given layout design.
Placeholder text (aka filler text, laurem ipsum, fake text, faux text, etc.) is especially valuable whenever working on responsive layouts for the web. Designs can shift radically from device to device, so it's a huge advantage to stress test a layout with content that isn't always ideal for the design.
If a design "breaks" from varied content, the design should be improved or replaced until it can handle that varied content. This is the only way a designer can ensure the end-user's content choices (whatever they may be) will work, too!
Got Some Spicy Lorem Ipsum?
If you use lorem ipsum text a lot, it can sometimes get a bit... boring. So it's always nice to have some quick options, to spice up a design session with a little humor (or food) packed into your design for everyone testing it.
Here's a list of some of my favorite flavors of lorem ipsum text generators:
- Samuel L. Ipsum
- Fillerama
- Bacon Ipsum
- Cupcake Ipsum
- Cheese Ipsum
- Trollem Ipsum
- DeLorean Ipsum
- Cat Ipsum
- Skate Ipsum
- TV Ipsum
- Sagan Ipsum
- Corporate Ipsum
- Bob Ross Lipsum
Strategic Lorem Ipsum
Don't forget, that lorem ipsum can also be used to strategically show designs to your stakeholders. In this case you might not want to use any generated text that has profanity (depends on how well you know your audience), but nevertheless using food-based filler text can be a great ice breaker for a big approval meeting!
It never hurts to show off a new experimental design concept - with all the placeholder text working subliminally to make your stakeholders feel happy, positive... and little bit hungry!
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