Latin: it’s all Greek to me…
A device graphic designers employ when they’re working on a layout that includes blocks of text, is greeking. It can be accomplished by simply sketching horizontal lines with a pencil, or, with the advent of design software, by dropping indecipherable paragraphs into text boxes. Many designers call the placeholder text Lorem Ipsum, because these are the first two words of the most commonly used greeking text.
There are alternatives. You might consider using the colorful hillbilly greeking text, or perhaps hypertext will suit your next design project.
October 31, 2007 at 6:35 pm
I always used LoremIpsum.net but was particularly fond of the Quark Xtension Jabber which provided Greek text in Esperanto, Politispeak, and Klingon in addition to the usual Latin. That is until I became an InDesign whore.