by Melina Leon
2017 Fall Intern
Imagine randomly hitting the keys on
your computer, creating nonsense words as you type. I like to imagine that is
how Lorem Ipsum—the filler text that often comes standard with many digital
publishing programs—started. However, it actually started with a printer from
the 1500s who scrambled up one of Cicero's
works, which may be why it’s often mistaken for Latin.
To my surprise, though, Lorem Ipsum
isn’t readable Latin. The text doesn’t mean anything at all. It does consist of
some Latin words, but the words go through “Greeking,” a process that makes the
text unreadable.
Lorem Ipsum is the dummy text of
the design world. The purpose of it is to make it easier for designers to get
an idea of how their work will look until they have the final text to insert.
Another purpose of this filler text is to avoid any distractions
that readable text could cause during the layout process.
It’s a shame I can’t write my college
papers using Lorem Ipsum!
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