If you’ve spent any time around designers or the Internet, you’ll at least have a passing familiarity with a chunk of text so pervasive online that it’s almost invisible. Called Greeking or Lorem ...

Have you ever visited a website that’s under construction and seen a jumble of Latin text? Most likely, what you saw was Lorem Ipsum filler text. In the 1980s, the general public became exposed to ...

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about the surprising histories behind names like “ASDA”, “wi-fi”, “Tesco”, “Quality Street“, and “Lego”. But the first time I came across “lorem ipsum”, the text ...

Lorem ipsum was conceived as filler text, formatted in a certain way to enable the presentation of graphic elements in documents, without the need for formal copy. It was in this edition of the De ...

My excitement over JRR Tolkien's forthcoming Beowulf translation had some calling me, in no uncertain terms, a geek. Perhaps that's why I'm so taken with this valiant attempt at translating Lorem ...

Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the ...