Hipster Ipsum

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Artisanal filler text for your site or project. Do you need some text for your website or whatever? sigh Okay…

The invention of online ispum lorem text generators for graphic designers was revolutionary. In fact, I can’t even remember what we did prior – did we rely on copy and pasting from Microsoft Word?! Eugh, no wonder that has been wiped from my memory!

For the benefit of non-designer readers to this blog, a brief explanation, as per Wiki:

In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is placeholder text (filler text) commonly used to demonstrate the graphics elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout… nonsensical in meaning and not proper Latin… used in order to direct the focus to the publication style and not the meaning of the text.

Quite as one would expect, it didn’t take long for more subversive renditions to make their debut appearance on the interweb. Sometime last year, Lorizzle, the Gangsta Lorem Ipsum generator emerged giving designer’s the opportunity to laugh at some pretty ghetto, Snoop Dogg inspired placeholder text thus providing a sharp injection of design humour to an otherwise painfully monotonous task. Did anyone actually send the gangsta version to client? Pray tell.

Anyways… the latest generator just arrived, HIPSTER IPSUM. It’s a little more client-friendly and packed full of all kinds of hipster buzzwords like tofu, organic, shoreditch, letterpress and the quintessential hipster buzzword du jour, “sartorial”. Yes, indeed. See for yourself…

Sample hipster ipsum generated text.

Sample text above was generated using the “Hipster, neat.” option but if you prefer a touch of Latin in your ipsum, the hipsters have it covered. Go play – and then tell us how it went down with clients!