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Kanye Ipsum: Add some confidence to your placeholder text

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39 pointstylucaskelley16 comments

These things are quite fun, but don't be tempted to use them as placeholder text for anything a client or a user will see. They won't understand the point - lorem is clearly just a placeholder, anything vaguely English isn't.

I'd have preferred something vaguely English the first time I encountered the lorem text. It would have saved me a lot of confusion.

Rather than thinking, "Oh, nonsensical text with typographic characteristics similar to English to show how the layout works with this template", I thought "Oh, this sample article that is supposed to be an example of good use of this template is in the wrong language...somehow my installation got screwed up and it installed the wrong template set".

I then spent two or three hours trying to figure out how to tell the software I wanted my examples in English before I came across an explanation of the lorem text.

How about a Donald Trump -ipsum?

“I know words, I have the best words”

Dorem Trumpsum

the jquery dependency could be replaced with 5 lines of js by using querySelector & textContent. a jquery plugin should just be a wrapper around the main lib.

yeah of course not the most serious or thought out project haha, made it more just to play around with some tools and have a good time

the project should strive to be as serious as Kanye is about Kanye :D

nothing can be that serious tho D:

That was my first thought as well.

Oh another fun Loren Ipsum generator, how wonderful!

> This is a jQuery plugin

Nope, cya

I like how the minified version is 30KB and the original one is only 12.6KB.

shoutout to sourcemaps being big haha

Should probably have named it yeepsum...

"There are some lame fake accounts trying to make Kanye-isms that are not Mark Twain level."

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