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This also misses that Lorem Ipsum is effectively gibberish for most people. It's impossible to get hung up on the content.
It is literally gibberish, for everyone.
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It is literally gibberish, for everyone.
I thought it was essentially Latin, so gibberish for most but possibly readable for those with a penchant for dead languages?
An interesting comparison of the "Modern" typesetter's lorem ipsum and the likely source text is in the Wikipedia article:
lorempixel.com
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No. I live in a pet free building and also travel too much for the poor thing to be left alone. I didn't mention five corgi plushies: one memory foam pillow and four Unicorgis. One pair of the Unicorgis are set to fly -- they had wings and the previous owner left hooks in the ceiling so it was pretty self evident what I needed to do...
How quirky!
https://teespring.com/shop/corgi-symbol_copy_1
:D
Just wanted to comment on the clarity and effectiveness of the home page. Love it! So many user-friendly checkboxes are ticked off. Nice look, great description, plenty of examples, advanced usage section that's very easy to take in, credits at the bottom with some backend tech used, a welcoming contact link... All of this accomplished (landing page and documentation) in just a few scrolls of the mouse. I went from n…
I eventually settled on Pixabay, but if Lorem Picsum has added more images recently, I might need to give it another look.
I'm personally partial to PlaceKitten[1] though around halloween I will sometimes switch it up with PlaceZombie[2] This one looks nice in that you wouldn't be embarrassed if it goes live since the images are generally nice looking but part of the appear of YAPHS (Yet Another Placeholder Service) is that it is really obviously a placeholder so you catch it before it goes live. [1] https://placekitten.com/ (warning: co…
What's with ppl and kittens!? :)
Tangentially, I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon. http://neil.panchal.io/articles/quantum-lorem-ipsum/ https://github.com/neilpanchal/quantum-lorem-ipsum Edit: Created a Github repo
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I wasn't aware that Lorem Ipsum was conceived with uniform distribution of word lengths in mind. I couldn't find any information about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum > The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin. Could you please p…
"The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English." via the 'Why do we use it?' section on https://www.lipsum.com/
I think the assertion that designers want to have a perfect normal distribution of word lengths is arguable. I’d be curious to analyze large datasets of books to see what the actual distribution of word lengths is. Heck, this may be an opportunity to actually fix vanilla Lorem Ipsum and write a script that can generate paragraphs that simulate real world distribution of word lengths! Looks like I have a project ahead of me this upcoming weekend :-).
How is something like this funded? Doesn’t this cost money to host?
It does indeed. DigitalOcean is kind enough to sponsor the infrastructure, and BelugaCDN provides us with CDN services. Any other costs I cover out of pocket / via carbon ads.