Lorem ipsum. Greeking. Often known as dummy text, graphic designers know those terms well.
In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is placeholder text (filler text) commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout, by removing the distraction of meaningful content. The lorem ipsum text is typically a section of a Latin text… with words altered, added and removed that make it nonsensical in meaning and not proper Latin.
How do Mac graphic designers create latin text, or dummy text, or lorem ipsum in documents? One of the best ways is free– LittleIpsum.
This clever little app resides in the Mac’s Menubar and gives you one-click access to dummy words, dummy sentences, or dummy paragraphs.
LittleIpsum is smart, too. Not only does it create words, sentences, or paragraphs, it can wrap generated text in HTML tags, too.
The output is random latin but uses actual latin words. You won’t need an internet connection to use LittleIpsum, either. All the text resides on your Mac is available with a click to the Menubar.
Latin text for free.