Once upon a time, in an office (not) far away, a designer slouched, his eyes darting across the mock-ups displayed on his screen. His face wore a confused expression and the quizzical, slightly worried look cast a shadow across his brow.
"It's wrong somehow" said the designer, his eyes shifting rapidly from section to section, "but . . . what is it? I can't put my finger on it!"
A shadowy figure across the desk raised himself from his seat. The room seemed to darken in his presence. The figure bent across the partition and spoke in a low voice:
"Your content filler, it's screwing up your eyes, distracting you from the visual presentation".
The designer, visibly rocked by the timbre of the figure’s awesome voice absorbed this information.
'Was he right? Were the content boxes filled with X's distracting him from the visual presentation?'
The designer rolled back in his chair bowing slightly and, his voice trembling, enquired meekly, "What should I do, oh one whom they call 'colleague'?"
"Use lipsum you fool! It’s been around for years"
...Oh, yeah.
And the designer designed happily ever after.
The End.
We already knew of lipsum right? (Lorem ipsum - just in case you don't.)
Well, designers sometimes get tired of using the same old generated lipsum text. If you’re one of those designers then point your eyes at the following resources, you might find they cheer your day up a bit.
- Zombie Ipsum
- Hipster Ipsum
- Samuel L. Ipsum
- Bacon Ipsum
- And my personal favourite: Cupcake Ipsum
EDIT: As Steph Gray below mentioned, here's a more relevant Lipsum generator to us Gov folks:
EDIT 2: For all the Back to the Future fans out there:
Enjoooooy :-)