2021

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Education Sports

To some, designing a website around placeholder

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

Among design professionals, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the filler text. Controversy, as in Death to Lorem Ipsum. The strength of lorem ipsum is its weakness: it doesn’t communicate. To some, designing a website around placeholder...

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Education Sports

The same WordPress template might eventually be

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

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. The same WordPress template might...

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Technology

The strength of lorem ipsum is its weakness: it doesn’t communicate.

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

Among design professionals, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the filler text. Controversy, as in Death to Lorem Ipsum. The strength of lorem ipsum is its weakness: it doesn’t communicate. To some, designing a website around placeholder...

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Politics

The French lettering company Letraset manufactured a set

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

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. The French lettering company Letraset manufactured a...

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News

Don’t bother typing “lorem ipsum” into Google translate

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

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...

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Education Focus Technology

McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

As an alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of De Finibus which challenges McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that the dawn of lorem ipsum was as...

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Technology Travel

how did the classical Latin become so incoherent?

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

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...

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Education Focus Technology

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” Before & After magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate...

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Focus Technology

The purpose of lorem ipsum is to create a natural

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

The purpose of lorem ipsum is to create a natural looking block of text (sentence, paragraph, page, etc.) that doesn’t distract from the layout. A practice not without controversy, laying out pages with meaningless filler text can...

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