When doing graphic design, the “Lorem ipsum” text is a common placeholder for layouts and typographic elements. The text is based on one of the works of the Roman philosopher Cicero, and although it sounds like Latin it has mutated and is actually a big mess of deletions and insertions of both Latin and non-Latin words. This sounds a bit crazy, but the point is that when using a placeholder text with no textual meaning, there will be a 100% focus on the design elements. According to Wikipedia, different versions of this text has been used at least since the 60′s, so it’s certainly well established among designers.
However, if you’re not concerned of being a little distracted by textual content, this de facto standard fake-Latin mumbo jumbo could be replaced by another text from the Ciceros of our time, Monty Python:
Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Panties…I’m sorry…Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bach. Names that will live for ever. But there is one composer whose name is never included with the greats. Why is it that the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern schplenden schlitter crasscrenbon fried digger dingle dangle dongle dungle burstein von knacker thrasher apple banger horowitz ticolensic grander knotty spelltinkle grandlich grumblemeyer spelterwasser kurstlich himbleeisen bahnwagen gutenabend bitte ein nürnburger bratwustle gerspurten mitz weimache luber hundsfut gumberaber shönedanker kalbsfleisch mittler aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm? To do justice to this man, thought by many to be the greatest name in German Baroque music, we present a profile of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern schplenden schlitter crasscrenbon fried digger dingle dangle dongle dungle burstein von knacker thrasher apple banger horowitz ticolensic grander knotty spelltinkle grandlich grumblemeyer spelterwasser kurstlich himbleeisen bahnwagen gutenabend bitte ein nürnburger bratwustle gerspurten mitz weimache luber hundsfut gumberaber shönedanker kalbsfleisch mittler aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.
It’s mostly gibberish anyway.