WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:10.860 Okay, in this video, we're going to look at how to bring in 00:00:10.860 --> 00:00:13.680 Lorem Ipsum or this placeholder text 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:16.020 which is super useful when you don't have the copy yet, 00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:18.000 but you still need to work on the design. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.545 So let's go and do that. 00:00:19.545 --> 00:00:21.400 The first thing to get Lorem Ipsum 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:23.880 is that I'm going to actually push this out of the way, 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:28.350 placeholder text is what's called and InDesign most people call Lorem Ipsum. 00:00:28.350 --> 00:00:30.450 I'm going to grab the Type tool and I'm going to draw 00:00:30.450 --> 00:00:32.235 a type box that goes from this margin 00:00:32.235 --> 00:00:36.465 all the way to this margin and it's half the page. 00:00:36.465 --> 00:00:38.400 I'm going to go up to Type, 00:00:38.400 --> 00:00:41.220 and I'm going to go down to Fill with Placeholder Text, 00:00:41.220 --> 00:00:45.330 and that my friends is how you insert this mixed up Latin words. 00:00:45.330 --> 00:00:46.820 They are actual Latin words, 00:00:46.820 --> 00:00:51.005 but they're jumbled up and from a distance they look like proper language. 00:00:51.005 --> 00:00:52.925 Why do we use them in design? 00:00:52.925 --> 00:00:56.060 It's mainly because you probably don't have the text yet and 00:00:56.060 --> 00:00:59.285 you need something in there to stop picking fonts and styles and things. 00:00:59.285 --> 00:01:00.935 Often when I'm starting a project, 00:01:00.935 --> 00:01:02.540 at the very same time, 00:01:02.540 --> 00:01:04.565 a copywriter will be starting the project, 00:01:04.565 --> 00:01:06.505 okay, so I don't have the text yet. 00:01:06.505 --> 00:01:09.850 So I need to start styling it and I will switch it out letter on. 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, 00:01:15.170 --> 00:01:18.890 and I don't want them getting into the minutiae of doing copy changes. 00:01:18.890 --> 00:01:22.355 So I just go and pick some random texts from their websites. 00:01:22.355 --> 00:01:24.500 I'll end up with meetings and instead of them talking 00:01:24.500 --> 00:01:26.585 about the design and what they like about that, 00:01:26.585 --> 00:01:29.000 they end up kind of picking holes in the type. 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, 00:01:32.450 --> 00:01:33.950 "Don't worry about the type, okay, 00:01:33.950 --> 00:01:35.240 and with the text and its content, 00:01:35.240 --> 00:01:36.960 it's just the style we're looking at." 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:40.335 So often Lorem Ipsum is the way to go to get started. 00:01:40.335 --> 00:01:42.330 Though I have had on many occasions, 00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:43.680 people emailing me saying, 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:48.605 I don't speak Latin or that it's broken and that the fonts aren't loading, 00:01:48.605 --> 00:01:51.140 something is happening; you might want to just explain 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:53.810 that you've used mixed-up Latin when you've seen the concepts, 00:01:53.810 --> 00:01:56.005 especially if it's going over via email. 00:01:56.005 --> 00:01:59.140 So you've designed it and the copywriting is happening afterwards. 00:01:59.140 --> 00:02:02.975 What you can do is work out what the word count is, so check the word count. 00:02:02.975 --> 00:02:06.410 You have your cursor flashing Type tool cursor flashing in here, anywhere, 00:02:06.410 --> 00:02:09.575 go to Window and go to Info, 00:02:09.575 --> 00:02:11.300 and that should, after a second, 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:13.940 tell you this is 347 words. 00:02:13.940 --> 00:02:16.340 So if you know 300 words are coming, 00:02:16.340 --> 00:02:19.285 you can delete a few and get it down to 300, 00:02:19.285 --> 00:02:21.380 or you can reach out to the copywriter and say, 00:02:21.380 --> 00:02:26.675 "You need to be writing to these numbers and you need to write to 347, roughly." 00:02:26.675 --> 00:02:29.030 Which you can do if you're being told how many numbers, 00:02:29.030 --> 00:02:32.030 instead of trying to delete and edge trying this word count out. 00:02:32.030 --> 00:02:35.850 A lot of people would just jump out to a website called lipsum.com. 00:02:35.850 --> 00:02:38.180 Lipsum.com here is an ugly sight, 00:02:38.180 --> 00:02:39.440 but it's really usable. 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:41.000 People use this one all the time. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.545 If you're a designer, click on 'words,' say I need 500 words, 00:02:44.545 --> 00:02:46.860 I'm going to click Generate Lorem Ipsum, 00:02:46.860 --> 00:02:50.270 and that is exactly 500 words that I could use. 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:53.300 I'm going to copy and paste that into InDesign. 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:55.750 All right, back to InDesign. 00:02:55.820 --> 00:02:59.390 So let's leave it there, and in the next videos we'll look at getting 00:02:59.390 --> 00:03:02.600 this into columns and bringing in texts from say, 00:03:02.600 --> 00:03:05.430 Word documents, all right. Bye bye.