Yummy Dummy Fillers

One of those things I keep an eye out for is relatively interesting placeholder text to use when setting type.

I seem to finally have found a multilingual dummy text page, created by Thorsten Hagen and Immo Seebörger of the Sachbearbeiters. Even though is geared more towards the web design crowd, the variety of texts on offer and the option to set length, weights and number of paragraphs on the page make it viable for use in print, as well as offering a quick preview of what could be on site. Another nice touch is the html format box at the bottom left, which can be copied right into your style sheet, sparing you a lot of hacking.

My one niggle with the site is the placement of the language buttons, as they made me think that they were responsible for changing the language of the site, not of the text. Other than that I can recommend it.

Via Fontblog

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