Greeking
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Greeking is a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols, not always from the Greek alphabet. The name is a reference to the phrase "Greek to me", meaning something that one cannot understand, so that it might as well be in a foreign language.
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[edit] In computing
Greeking refers to the automatic rendering of text characters as unreadable symbols or lines in the layout preview function of word processing documents, either to speed up screen display[1] or because the graphics display capabilities of the monitor are insufficient for rendering extremely small texts.[2]
[edit] In visual media
Greeking involves inserting nonsense text or, commonly, Greek or Latin text in prototypes of visual media projects (such as in graphic and web design) to check the layout of the final version before the actual text is available, or to enhance layout assessment by eliminating the distraction of readable text.[3] Text of this sort is known as "greeked text", "dummy text", or "jabberwocky text".[1] Lorem ipsum is a commonly used example, though this is derived from Latin, not Greek.
[edit] In typography
Greeked text is also used in typography to evaluate a certain typeface's appropriateness, overall style or type color.[4]
[edit] In the arts
Greeking in theatre, television, and film production art-department work refers to the process of changing or hiding corporate trademarks that have not been "cleared" legally for use in the production.[citation needed]
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- Lorem Ipsum generator in many languages and charsets
- Lorem Ipsum Generator generate lorem ipsum in paragraphs, words or sentences
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