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Don’t worry, you’re not going mad. The sentence above is an example of Lorem Ipsum text, a type of filler text used since the 1500s, when it was used to create an example of printed type. Brought to the digital world in the 1980s, Lorem Ipsum is used as filler text in website and print mockups, to demonstrate how a design will look when completed.
Despite the nonsensical appearance, classic Lorem Ipsum text is anything but. It's made of random sentences from a Latin book called The Extremes of Good and Evil, a philosophical text written in 45 BC by the Roman polymath, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Dummy content works best if it doesn’t distract from the design it occupies. For English speakers, Lorem Ipsum text has a familiar distribution of word lengths and letters, so doesn’t distract nearly as much as the words “insert content here” pasted repeatedly.
Traditionally the text follows a standard format, as you can see in the first paragraph - although a number of fun alternatives have been developed and are freely available via generators on the web. Let's take a look:
If your web or print mockups need a little lovin', consider one of these.
Placeholder text with a delightful sprinkling of charming Samuel L. Jackson quotes. Can be used with or without expletives.
Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it?
If you’re a fan of cats (or just cat memes), you’ll appreciate having your mockups filled with this.
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Ever known someone who preferred to spout business nonsense over actual words? This should deliver some cringeworthy nostalgia.
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Created to mark Movember, this text aims to give the standard lorem ipsum text some glorious masculinity.
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This generator picks out the best of Futurama quotes, and slaps them together into a beautiful mishmash of comedic gibberish.
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