Gimme that old time Lorem Ipsum

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Posted by Grant Hutchinson | December 10, 2002 | LINK

Comments

This kicks gludius maximus (or minimus, as the case may be).

vis10n | Dec 10, 2002 08:33 AM

I posted this weeks ago to typographer.com. I'm going to sulk now.

David Earls | Dec 10, 2002 09:02 AM

I posted this weeks ago to typographer.com. I'm going to sulk now.

Oh dear. Please don't do that. I'm just sorry I didn't read it on your site first. Really.

Grant Hutchinson | Dec 10, 2002 09:14 AM

well, Mr. Earls, I *did* read the link on your site and it is a very good one -- for all of you history/minutiae buffs, don't miss it.

plain*clothes | Dec 10, 2002 09:29 AM

The part of this I find difficult to swallow is: Lipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. I've seen a lot of historical type specimens, and I don't recall ever seeing Lorem Ipsum on any of them. The classical printer's most famous choice of text was Cicero's denunciation of Lucius Catilina: Quousque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra....

So, while I don;t want to dismiss the story related on the Lorem Ipsum site, I really would like to see some evidence or, at least, a citation for the source of the story.

John Hudson | Dec 10, 2002 12:41 PM

lorem-ipsum.info/generator3 generates sanitized and randomized dummy copy in non-english charsets besides the traditional lipsum, e.g. chinese, arabic, letzebuergisch etc.

Marek Moehling | Mar 13, 2005 07:47 PM