Very clever idea. I’ll be using this soon.

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“If you are a designer like myself greeking is a part of your typical design concepting process. You put together a nice design, drop in the typical latin text that starts with “Lorum ipsum” and you’ve got a nice example of how the work in progress will look once the final copy is in place.

There’s only one problem.

The typical Latin body of text does not truly represent typical English word length…”

“…It’s not rocket science, but why not use actual English literature text instead of greek?”

I get complaints whenever I use “Greeked” text. I’ll probably still get “this isn’t my text” (which they haven’t supplied yet), but at least it won’t be the “this doesn’t make sense” comment anymore.

It will also be nice laying out interesting text that’s very well written. Laying out a lot of text you end up reading it repeatedly as you work, little bits at a time. Some of my clients write well, some don’t, but most of them write on subjects that don’t interest me much. Using Greek isn’t much better. While I don’t try to read it, my eye keeps getting drawn to words that look familiar. It will be a pleasant change to work with a little classic literature instead of the dreaded Greek or my least favorite foreign language Real Estate.