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  • Form Over Function

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    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 eventually be home to a fitness blog, a photography website, or the online journal of a cupcake fanatic. Lorem ipsum helps them imagine…

  • Because it’s the Internet

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    There was that time artists at Sequence opted to hand-Sharpie the lorem ipsum passage on a line of paper bags they designed for Chipotle—the result being a mixture of avant-garde, inside joke, and Sharpie-stained tables. Those with an eye for detail may have caught a tribute to the classic text in an episode of Mad Men (S6E1 around 1:18:55 for anyone…

  • De finibus bonorum et malorum

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    At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus, qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti, quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint, obcaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa, qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore,…

  • Original Source Text

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    Below are the original Latin passages from which Lorem Ipsum was derived, paired with their 1914 translations by H. Rackham.

  • Ipsum All the Things

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    Coming full circle, the internet’s remixing of the now infamous lorem ipsum passage has officially elevated it to pop culture status.

  • When to Use Lorem Ipsum

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    Generally, lorem ipsum is best suited to keeping templates from looking bare or minimizing the distractions of draft copy.

  • Controversy in the Design World

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    Some claim lorem ipsum threatens to promote design over content, while others defend its value in the process of planning.

  • Meaning of Lorem Ipsum

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    Lorem ipsum was purposefully designed to have no meaning, but appear like real text, making it the perfect placeholder.

  • Fuzzy Beginnings

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    Creation timelines for the standard lorem ipsum passage vary, with some citing the 15th century and others the 20th.

  • Origins and Discovery

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    Lorem ipsum began as scrambled, nonsensical Latin derived from Cicero’s 1st-century BC text De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.