Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Such is the first clause of а placeholder text that can be found anywhere you look, from templates to websites to marketing and ad copy. The problem is, unless you speak ...

Tweeking turns any Twitter handle’s Tweets into a surprisingly readable block of text suitable for use instead of lorem ipsum placeholder text. Tweeking turns any Twitter handle’s Tweets into a ...

Sometimes, when we’re putting together an issue of the LRB, we use Lorem Ipsum, a chunk of phoney Latin dummy text that’s been used by printers and typesetters since the 16th century. We paste it into ...

Photograph by Flickr user Blake Burkhart. “Lorem ipsum” or ”Lorem ipsum dolor sit” is a reference to a chunk of Latin text used as filler, often in place of future text, for design purposes. It’s ...

Once in a while I’ll dabble in web development. Nothing too serious (I’m far from a graphic artist), but when I start piecing together various blocks of text, I often rely on filler content to aid me ...

If you’ve spent any time around designers or the Internet, you’ll at least have a passing familiarity with a chunk of text so pervasive online that it’s almost invisible. Called Greeking or Lorem ...