Lorem Ipsum – What Every Designer Should Know about Placeholder Text
July 9, 2008 by Eric Eggertson
Filed under Marketing
I had to pass on this link.
For anyone who has wondered about the Latin text that graphic designers since the 1500s use when presenting a design, this site traces Lorem ipsum (etc.) back to the 2000-year-old source, and includes translations.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing
elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore
et dolore magna aliqua.
Even better, they’ve got a text generator that gives you however many paragraphs of obscure latin text that you need, without obvious duplication of phrases.
(Now, if lipsum.com would get rid of the annoying banner ad that talks to you. I can’t stand any site that starts playing sound when I visit. Talk about violating my personal space.)
OMG, thank you for the link. I had a hunch it might be Cicero, but never bothered to look it up. This is quite a trip back to my highschool days when I was one of those weird kids who were really good at Latin :))
Alina: Salutatio!