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1 | loopy

July 18th, 2002 at 6:25 pm

Great link… I *used* to have a plug-in for Dreamweaver that did this but have lost it somehow. BTW – it is Latin, not Greek

2 | Jade

July 18th, 2002 at 6:27 pm

that could come in handy..

3 | Jennifer

July 18th, 2002 at 8:54 pm

Loopy – sorry… you're right. Technically the text is "latin" – in the graphic design world they call it "greek" text (or "dummy" text). "greek" not being a literal description…

4 | ste

July 18th, 2002 at 9:21 pm

Yes, the term 'greeking' simply means to fill up the area with non-readable text that might simulate a typical set of text. Historically, early designers chose to use greek letters because then the text would be obvious nonsensical and would be replaced with the real text when the copy checkers ran through the design. At least, that's the way I learned it in my magazine production class 😉

5 | Jennifer

July 19th, 2002 at 7:48 am

You see that! Learn something new everyday. Actually, I didn't know that was the reason they call it "greek" text. (Shows where I got (most of) my education from… on the job! LOL!)

6 | Amy

July 19th, 2002 at 7:13 pm

When I was doing design for a company, I always kept a lorem_ipsum.txt file lying around. Except that I made a few modifications.

I slipped in a lot of 'fnord's.

The clients who got it, thought it was hysterical. Most didn't get it, so I just never said a word.

7 | Toys and Merchandise

July 26th, 2002 at 7:26 am

Excuse my ignorance… what's a fnord?

Btw, goddesses… you have a very well designed and informative site!

Regards,
Markus

8 | Jennifer

July 26th, 2002 at 9:12 am

isn't it what Pinky from Pinky and the Brain says every now and then? (just kidding! LOL!) Actually, I don't know either…

9 | Jennifer

August 6th, 2002 at 10:04 am

because I'm terribly terribly bored…
fnord

10 | Amanita.net

July 21st, 2002 at 4:37 pm

Call Me (on the line)
You can now listen to this site over the phone, thanks to Dave's tutorial (found via ScriptyGoddess). To hear it,

11 | The Trommetter Times

July 22nd, 2002 at 3:53 pm

It's All Greek to Me
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12 | Live in the Delirious Cool

September 27th, 2002 at 12:26 pm

Greek-ify me.
While testing my new design with some placeholder text yesterday, I ran across this lorem ipsum text generator from scriptygoddess.