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My name is Marcin Wichary (he/him). I’ve worked as a UX designer, typographer, front-end person, and manager at Google, Medium, and Figma. I’ve also written a book about keyboards and typing, gave talks, and published essays about design, typography, and technology.

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“Whoever is doing this had some fun with adding these portions.”

I hate lorem ipsum with passion, but guess what? There’s more intentionality in it than I assumed, and even easter eggs, as this fun 25-minute mini documentary from Emily Zhang/​Rabbit Hole shows:

You can tell that this was not the work of an amateur. The garbled text is done with a lot of care and knowledge. You can see a lot of rational decisions about why it looks the way it does in there. They are making very careful additions, such as adding letters… the “-and”s and the “-ng”s… The “y” got stuck in because that’s an English letter. […] I think the fact that it is garbled Latin text, and that it has those other letters in a fairly Latin-based alphabet amount of frequency, speaks to that it was done very, very carefully.

Just a fun watch all around.