Lorem Ipsum Text and Letraset®

Lorem Ipsum text is what can be called 'filler text' and is used in publishing to help with testing layout. It has been around since the 1500s and is still used to this day! It became quite popular, according to http://www.lipsum.com with the use of Letraset®.

Can you believe that this type of text has its origin in a piece of classical Latin literature produced in 45 BC? Amazing!

Lorem Ipsum text is used mainly to ensure that the reader is not distracted by the content that can be read while trying to concentrate on a page's layout. It is used today in many publishing programs and web page editors as default text. Lorem Ipsum text is popular due to it's distribution of letters being more 'normal' and thus makes text look like readable English.

For more information on Lorem Ipsum text, visit http://www.lipsum.com.

Letraset® is something I myself have used. I first discovered Letraset® when I was a child and it fascinated me! I would spend hours amusing myself by transferring random letters onto pages and anything that the letters would stick onto.

Letraset® consists of sheets of letters that can be transferred to any page by tracing over them. It's a bit difficult to explain how this works, but it uses what is called a method of 'dry transfer' or in lay terms, without the use of water or wet ink. Letraset® can be used for personalising letterheads, stationery and other uses where lettering is required.

With the use of computers and printers, Letraset® has become far less popular than it was in the 70s and 80s, due to it's time-consuming nature of transferring each letter by hand. This lettering system is still available, but is very rarely used.

For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letraset or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_transfer.