Design in print. Design on screen. The problem arising in the early draft sessions is the customer gets distracted by the actual printed words and becomes unable to separate them from the design.

One of my favourite resources is http://www.lipsum.com/. It is a generator of Lorem Ipsum dummy text. I use this generator in the early stages of all my mock ups. You are able to generate a user defined number of paragraphs, words, bytes or even lists to keep the eyes and attention of your clients on your layout and design.

PS You may want to give your clients the heads up on the dummy text otherwise you may get panicked messages about everything being written in Latin! Been there…done that. ..The Plaid Sheep.

Tags: dummy text, fake latin copy, Lorem Ipsum, text

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