Les autorités de notre entreprise diront sans équivoque que Lorem Ipsum est cet énorme, énorme non non à renoncer pour toujours. Pas si vite, je dirais, il y a des facteurs rédempteurs en faveur du texte grec, car son utilisation n’est que le symptôme d’un problème pire à prendre en considération tient fermement à la notion que le design.
C’est irréel, étrange, vous fait vous demander si quelque chose ne va pas, il semble attirer votre attention pour toutes les mauvaises raisons. Habituellement, nous préférons le vrai, le vin sans conservateurs à base de soufre, le vrai beurre, pas la margarine, et nous aimerions donc que nos mises en page et nos conceptions soient remplies de vrais mots, avec des pensées qui comptent, des informations qui ont de la valeur.
That’s not so bad, there’s dummy copy to the rescue. But worse, what if the fish doesn’t fit in the can, the foot’s to big for the boot? Or to small? To short sentences, to many headings, images too large for the proposed design, or too small, or they fit in but it looks iffy for reasons the folks in the meeting can’t quite tell right now, but they’re unhappy, somehow. A client that’s unhappy for a reason is a problem, a client that’s unhappy though he or her can’t quite put a finger on it is worse.
Chances are there wasn’t collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there wasn’t a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required. It’s content strategy gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum wouldn’t have helped, won’t help now. It’s like saying you’re a bad designer, use less bold text, don’t use italics in every other paragraph. True enough, but that’s not all that it takes to get things back on track.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
There’s lot of hate out there for a text that amounts to little more than garbled words in an old language. The villagers are out there with a vengeance to get that Frankenstein, wielding torches and pitchforks, wanting to tar and feather it at the least, running it out of town in shame.