Comments on: I hate Lorem Ipsum and Lorem Ipsum Users

By: tom

tom — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:30:06 +0000

You win. Any argument that has age on its side has to be right.

By: Coco

Coco — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:14:25 +0000

Try again then…as I said before:

Wonderful, lorum ipsum has been with us for 600 years; do we think by this discussion which is only eight years old we will be able to sweep all of that history away? Fie! to them all qui non ipsum optimus consectetur.

http://www.jholman.com/scripts/quote/filler.php

appears to be blacklisted and is described as malicious. Perhaps Anonymous would like to let Holman know.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:54:16 +0000

I can’t see it Coco…

By: Coco

Coco — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:29:57 +0000

I guess this site is inactive. I left a reponse here on 21 October but still cannot see it….lorum ipsum dolor sit amet, fugiat nulla.

By: rafa

rafa — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:56:24 +0000

WTF? It’s just Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet lorem ipsum dolor sit amet!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:28:27 +0000

I work for a legal website and more often than not I use Lorem Ipsum. I’ve tried copying and pasting content from other pages or building around content from other websites we manage, but they’re not “real” either.

You slate Lorem Ipsum, but you, and everyone else who stated their hatred for place-holder text, fail to give any sort of real alternative. I’d love to have real information to play with and I always demand that the information for the page be written before I design it, but on the (frequent) occasions where it is not finished there’s nothing better than having Lorem Ipsum there.

If there’s a real alternative when you are not capable of using the right information then I’d like to hear it.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:51:59 +0000

Tom, I am with you on this one. I HATE Lorem Ipsum and designers that insist on using it. If you are going to use dummy text, I would rather see something like “Text content here. Text content here. Text content here.” copy and pasted five thousand times than some stupid gibberish that means nothing. I’m probably going to offend a lot of people out there when I say this, but people who use Lorem Ipsum come off as D&D or LOTR geeks who are too lazy to come up with a different solution. I understand that there are times you don’t want a client to nit pick spelling and think that your filler text is the real thing… but come on… at least have the decency to use real words in there or put a “Sample Text” overlay across the text body or something. It drives me nuts to see Lorem Ipsum as a consumer, as a client, as a product manager, and as a designer.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:35:17 +0000

The text is used as a temporary solution for designing page layouts. It has nothing to do with imagination and text content. It’s a temporary text used to show to a client of what a certain layout / box on a page will look like with text.

For those that complain about it, well all I can say is, common sense went past you a long time ago.

By: Alfred Reinold Baudisch

Alfred Reinold Baudisch — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:10:26 +0000

I got to this post from Getting Real book. I always hated the dummy approach, because there is no way to see how the final site will really look like when it is out.

And that is a problem even for making the help docs, as we still don’t know the real doubts.

From the book “Do as your customers do and you’ll understand them better.”

By: Steven Sacks

Steven Sacks — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:18:17 +0000

The reason Lorem ipsum exists is because of dumbass fucking clients who nitpick the text instead of looking at the design or layout.

“You misspelled that word.”
“You left off the TM on our company name.”
“I have to clear this copy with legal.”