Have you ever visited a website that’s under construction and seen a jumble of Latin text? Most likely, what you saw was Lorem Ipsum filler text. In the 1980s, the general public became exposed to ...

Designed as a placeholder for work-in-progress documents, those quasi-Latin words now appear on mugs, tote bags and T-shirts.

Lorem ipsum was conceived as filler text, formatted in a certain way to enable the presentation of graphic elements in documents, without the need for formal copy. It was in this edition of the De ...

A frozen food pack went viral last month. Online, I mean. Nothing to do with E. coli. As for the pack’s contents, the wrapping was too frosted to see. Making browsers settle for the label: “Lorem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever need to add some filler text to a Word document? You know, the “lorem ipsum” stuff you routinely see in document mock-ups, presentation materials, and the like. There’s a secret Word shortcut ...

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type ...