1 00:00:06,740 --> 00:00:10,860 Okay, in this video, we're going to look at how to bring in 2 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:13,680 Lorem Ipsum or this placeholder text 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,020 which is super useful when you don't have the copy yet, 4 00:00:16,020 --> 00:00:18,000 but you still need to work on the design. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,550 So let's go and do that. 6 00:00:19,545 --> 00:00:21,405 The first thing to get Lorem Ipsum 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,880 is that I'm going to actually push this out of the way, 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,350 placeholder text is what's called and InDesign most people call Lorem Ipsum. 9 00:00:28,350 --> 00:00:30,450 I'm going to grab the Type tool and I'm going to draw 10 00:00:30,450 --> 00:00:32,240 a type box that goes from this margin 11 00:00:32,235 --> 00:00:36,465 all the way to this margin and it's half the page. 12 00:00:36,465 --> 00:00:38,405 I'm going to go up to Type, 13 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,220 and I'm going to go down to Fill with Placeholder Text, 14 00:00:41,220 --> 00:00:45,330 and that my friends is how you insert this mixed up Latin words. 15 00:00:45,330 --> 00:00:46,820 They are actual Latin words, 16 00:00:46,820 --> 00:00:51,010 but they're jumbled up and from a distance they look like proper language. 17 00:00:51,005 --> 00:00:52,925 Why do we use them in design? 18 00:00:52,925 --> 00:00:56,065 It's mainly because you probably don't have the text yet and 19 00:00:56,060 --> 00:00:59,290 you need something in there to stop picking fonts and styles and things. 20 00:00:59,285 --> 00:01:00,935 Often when I'm starting a project, 21 00:01:00,935 --> 00:01:02,545 at the very same time, 22 00:01:02,540 --> 00:01:04,570 a copywriter will be starting the project, 23 00:01:04,565 --> 00:01:06,505 okay, so I don't have the text yet. 24 00:01:06,505 --> 00:01:09,855 So I need to start styling it and I will switch it out letter on. 25 00:01:09,850 --> 00:01:15,170 The other times I'll do it is when I'm pitching a design to a client and it's a concept, 26 00:01:15,170 --> 00:01:18,890 and I don't want them getting into the minutiae of doing copy changes. 27 00:01:18,890 --> 00:01:22,360 So I just go and pick some random texts from their websites. 28 00:01:22,355 --> 00:01:24,505 I'll end up with meetings and instead of them talking 29 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:26,590 about the design and what they like about that, 30 00:01:26,585 --> 00:01:29,005 they end up kind of picking holes in the type. 31 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,450 They say, "Oh, you can't write that in there or that in there," and it's hard to say, 32 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:33,950 "Don't worry about the type, okay, 33 00:01:33,950 --> 00:01:35,240 and with the text and its content, 34 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:36,960 it's just the style we're looking at." 35 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,340 So often Lorem Ipsum is the way to go to get started. 36 00:01:40,335 --> 00:01:42,335 Though I have had on many occasions, 37 00:01:42,330 --> 00:01:43,680 people emailing me saying, 38 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,610 I don't speak Latin or that it's broken and that the fonts aren't loading, 39 00:01:48,605 --> 00:01:51,145 something is happening; you might want to just explain 40 00:01:51,140 --> 00:01:53,810 that you've used mixed-up Latin when you've seen the concepts, 41 00:01:53,810 --> 00:01:56,010 especially if it's going over via email. 42 00:01:56,005 --> 00:01:59,145 So you've designed it and the copywriting is happening afterwards. 43 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:02,980 What you can do is work out what the word count is, so check the word count. 44 00:02:02,975 --> 00:02:06,415 You have your cursor flashing Type tool cursor flashing in here, anywhere, 45 00:02:06,410 --> 00:02:09,580 go to Window and go to Info, 46 00:02:09,575 --> 00:02:11,305 and that should, after a second, 47 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:13,940 tell you this is 347 words. 48 00:02:13,940 --> 00:02:16,340 So if you know 300 words are coming, 49 00:02:16,340 --> 00:02:19,290 you can delete a few and get it down to 300, 50 00:02:19,285 --> 00:02:21,385 or you can reach out to the copywriter and say, 51 00:02:21,380 --> 00:02:26,680 "You need to be writing to these numbers and you need to write to 347, roughly." 52 00:02:26,675 --> 00:02:29,035 Which you can do if you're being told how many numbers, 53 00:02:29,030 --> 00:02:32,030 instead of trying to delete and edge trying this word count out. 54 00:02:32,030 --> 00:02:35,850 A lot of people would just jump out to a website called lipsum.com. 55 00:02:35,850 --> 00:02:38,180 Lipsum.com here is an ugly sight, 56 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:39,440 but it's really usable. 57 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,000 People use this one all the time. 58 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,550 If you're a designer, click on 'words,' say I need 500 words, 59 00:02:44,545 --> 00:02:46,865 I'm going to click Generate Lorem Ipsum, 60 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:50,270 and that is exactly 500 words that I could use. 61 00:02:50,270 --> 00:02:53,300 I'm going to copy and paste that into InDesign. 62 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:55,750 All right, back to InDesign. 63 00:02:55,820 --> 00:02:59,390 So let's leave it there, and in the next videos we'll look at getting 64 00:02:59,390 --> 00:03:02,600 this into columns and bringing in texts from say, 65 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,430 Word documents, all right. Bye bye.