Comments on: The Other Reason why Lorem Ipsum is Bad for Designs

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Use uinames and uiblurbs instead of lorem | Sike's playground — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:26:04 +0000

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By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:56:38 +0000

Good point, I think is very interesting.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:48:03 +0000

Back in the day, I used to ‘motivate’ my clients to send me real copy by putting in titles that would catch their eye and make them slightly freak out. So a page’s big title text would be a song title by Bow Wow Wow: “Giant Size Baby Thing”

When I started doing that, I started getting actual copy from them faster than you’d believe.

It’s also easy to search for specific text like that to make sure you got all your temporary content removed before launch, so it avoids both problems.

By: CaptainNick

CaptainNick — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:46:54 +0000

^ What he said.

The whole point of lorem ipsum is to take the emphasis ‘off’ the content and onto the design…so it’s better we can’t read the answer surely as it means we’re looking at the design…

Lorem ipsum is just made up filler text created for design.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:05:01 +0000

That’s why I used different kind of lorem ipsum: http://chrisvalleskey.com/fillerama/

By: John

John — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:37:12 +0000

If you’re designing online using lorem ipsum filler text is also a disaster for SEO with sites taking a long time to unrank for Latin words contained in the text. Much better to use a couple of paragraphs of carefully keyworded text. As most designers are not skilled in SEO this aspect often escapes their notice.

By: P2C

P2C — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:01 +0000

@Sacha – thanks for the article. was an excellent read. i agree typography is important but these days you have clients updating content endlessly. so how do you justify spending time on typography with “dynamic” content when you’re selling a design

By: Krev

Krev — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:47:30 +0000

Technically, lorem ipsum is not Latin.
[Wikipedia]”The lorem ipsum text is typically a section of a Latin text by Cicero with words altered, added and removed that make it nonsensical in meaning and not proper Latin.”[/Wikipedia]

By: Sacha

Sacha — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:48:10 +0000

The mistake you make is thinking that type and design are two separate things. You should read this article:

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:11:55 +0000

Also, please fix the kerning on your November (Nov) timestamps