Okay, in this video, we're going to look at how to bring in
Lorem Ipsum or this placeholder text
which is super useful when you don't have the copy yet,
but you still need to work on the design.
So let's go and do that.
The first thing to get Lorem Ipsum
is that I'm going to actually push this out of the way,
placeholder text is what's called and InDesign most people call Lorem Ipsum.
I'm going to grab the Type tool and I'm going to draw
a type box that goes from this margin
all the way to this margin and it's half the page.
I'm going to go up to Type,
and I'm going to go down to Fill with Placeholder Text,
and that my friends is how you insert this mixed up Latin words.
They are actual Latin words,
but they're jumbled up and from a distance they look like proper language.
Why do we use them in design?
It's mainly because you probably don't have the text yet and
you need something in there to stop picking fonts and styles and things.
Often when I'm starting a project,
at the very same time,
a copywriter will be starting the project,
okay, so I don't have the text yet.
So I need to start styling it and I will switch it out letter on.
The other times I'll do it is when I'm pitching a design to a client and it's a concept,
and I don't want them getting into the minutiae of doing copy changes.
So I just go and pick some random texts from their websites.
I'll end up with meetings and instead of them talking
about the design and what they like about that,
they end up kind of picking holes in the type.
They say, "Oh, you can't write that in there or that in there," and it's hard to say,
"Don't worry about the type, okay,
and with the text and its content,
it's just the style we're looking at."
So often Lorem Ipsum is the way to go to get started.
Though I have had on many occasions,
people emailing me saying,
I don't speak Latin or that it's broken and that the fonts aren't loading,
something is happening; you might want to just explain
that you've used mixed-up Latin when you've seen the concepts,
especially if it's going over via email.
So you've designed it and the copywriting is happening afterwards.
What you can do is work out what the word count is, so check the word count.
You have your cursor flashing Type tool cursor flashing in here, anywhere,
go to Window and go to Info,
and that should, after a second,
tell you this is 347 words.
So if you know 300 words are coming,
you can delete a few and get it down to 300,
or you can reach out to the copywriter and say,
"You need to be writing to these numbers and you need to write to 347, roughly."
Which you can do if you're being told how many numbers,
instead of trying to delete and edge trying this word count out.
A lot of people would just jump out to a website called lipsum.com.
Lipsum.com here is an ugly sight,
but it's really usable.
People use this one all the time.
If you're a designer, click on 'words,' say I need 500 words,
I'm going to click Generate Lorem Ipsum,
and that is exactly 500 words that I could use.
I'm going to copy and paste that into InDesign.
All right, back to InDesign.
So let's leave it there, and in the next videos we'll look at getting
this into columns and bringing in texts from say,
Word documents, all right. Bye bye.