The Eternal Lorem Ipsum

http://ephemer.kapsi.fi/FhtagnGenerator.php?count=500&format=text&fhtagn=yes

Cthuvian Ipsum Generator

and of course, this post reads better while listening to http://www.biglionmusic.com/music/lorem-ipsum/ :slight_smile:

My favorite is a list of disclaimers. I have my own that I have collected over the years but here are a couple of good ones.

http://webcatt.net/humor/disclaimer.html

http://coolsig.com/disclaimers1.html

10 print "Lorem Ipsum"
20 goto 10

A noble gesture to garner the design community vote, for sure, but if programmers need to sling Lorem Ipsum to do their job, something is deeply, horribly, terribly wrong with the state of technology in the world.

So please donā€™t learn anything about Lorem Iosum!

Iā€™m a designer, and I hate lorem ipsum. Let me tell you why.

Firstly, mockups that use lipsum typically assume that all pieces of content will be filled with equal amounts of text. Typical lipsum mockups with equally-sized blocks of latin therefore give a free pass to designs that break with uneven or unusually large amounts of content (like vertically aligned columns). They also fail to uncover issues where narrow columns and textareas create ā€˜riversā€™ of whitespace when words donā€™t quite fit into the space.

Secondly, using realistic text in wireframes is a great way to expose pieces of content that donā€™t make sense in practice. Perhaps the content would be redundant, or would be difficult to fill in real-world scenarios. Either way, thatā€™s not something you want to discover at the late stages of the design process (or worse, post-release). You donā€™t necessarily have to write your own copy - just pasting in something from another website with similar content will typically do.

Thirdly, because lipsum is not to be read, it allows designers to forget about readability and text legibility in favour of shaping text sections to fit into their design. Thatā€™s risky practice, and at worst it creates unusable content and websites with text that looks pretty canā€™t be consumed. And thatā€™s killer.

Granted, sometimes there arenā€™t any alternatives. Sourcing realistic content - even when itā€™s copypasted from somewhere else - is a time-consuming exercise. But Iā€™d always recommend trying it out before signing off a design, because the alternative is just too, too risky.

My personal favorite generates random text in the style of Noam Chomsky:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440546-chomsky-random-text-generator/

Iā€™ve added http://placeape.com to the mix of placeholder image sites. Check it out. Thatā€™d be cool! :slight_smile:

Brilliant http://jeffsum.com

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Even more brilliant!

Of course, the Fyre Festival.

Me and another colleague started to do a website to generate random things like numbers, telephones, social security numbers, names and of course, Lorem Ipsum
https://randommer.io/Text

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Not quite Lorem Ipsum, but commentary on pangrams which I think also applies ā€“ how weird are these ā€œdemoā€ words compared to reading typical, real written content? :thinking:

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Since December, we also created an Funny Office Ipsum

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