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It’s greeked to me

March 28, 2012 by Denise Felton 3 Comments

As a document designer and a stitcher, this hoop hit me dead center. Kim of A Dork with a Needle has interpreted greeked text in embroidery. These famous words are used to stand in for the copy when a publication is being designed before the writing has been finished. Kim chose these words because she wanted to practice her skills at embroidering text. But whether or not she meant to, she created stitchery that would hang proudly on the wall of any ad agency, newspaper, magazine, or editor’s office. So very cool. See more at her blog post.

Added 3/29/12: You’ll notice I said greeked text, not Greek text. Greeked is the term used for this kind of placeholder text. You can find out more about the history of lorem ipsum greeked text by following the link in Kim’s post. Or check out the description on About.com.

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Comments

  1. Cassie says

    March 28, 2012 at 9:26 pm

    Psst… that’s Latin, not Greek.

  2. michelle says

    March 29, 2012 at 3:04 am

    latin

  3. Nana says

    March 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    OH,MY..at 63 yrs old I remember my LATIN!

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