All of us are familiar with Lorem Ipsum, even if we don't know it by name. Designers use it as a way to simulate text in a design project. In fact, Lorem Ipsum has been around for a lot longer than you think. It's not a new designer trick. The print and design industries have used this Latin text for the last 500 years to replicate the look of actual text:
However, you may be wondering, why Lorem Ipsum? Why use a dead language to fill a space when you could just as easily copy and paste a phrase like your text here over and over again?
Lorem Ipsum isn't just a filler text, it also provides an illusion. In content, just like what you're reading here, there is variation. You'll have two-letter words next to nine-letter words. There is no repeating pattern.
However, when you use a repeated phrase as your text placeholder, it can taint the entire project. The human eye will get distracted by the repeating pattern. This, of course, will pull attention away from your overall...