Recently I was in a training course and the facilitator was showing us how to create a training course online. He was using an example to show us the final product and in this example the course text was just full of what I thought was gibberish. I had seen similar gibberish in different documents and sample texts and I just assumed that someone had mashed the keyboard down until the page was filled. I was wrong however, because this type of gibberish I learnt, is called Lorem Ipsum.
Lorem Ipsum is dummy text that printers use in order to fill a sample page of text. It has been determined that if you are creating a sample page and filling it with actual text, the person who views the page will be distracted by reading the sample text, when the purpose of the sample is to highlight the design not the content. Lorem Ipsum was designed to fill in the content with text which is not in English, but looks similar, so that it doesn't distract the reader from the over look of the sample. Lorem Ipsum has been in use since the 1500s, and is not simply a group of random letters, it is actually Latin and was discovered, in recent times, to link directly to a piece of Latin literature, "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero. So next time you are looking at a group of what appears to be gibberish on a sample document, you will know that this is in fact Lorem Ipsum, and if you spoke Latin, then many of the words might actually mean something to you!
To read more on Lorem Ipsum check out this website.
No comments:
Post a Comment