Formats, rules for differing elements things can break, designs agreed upon can have unintended consequences and look much different than expected. This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won’t fix it. Prototype test items of real content and data in designs will help.
All those things that convey the important signals that go beyond the mere textual, hierarchies of information, weight, emphasis, oblique stresses, priorities, all those subtle cues that also have visual and emotional appeal to the reader. Rigid proponents of content strategy may shun the use of dummy copy.
Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure that you can show different text, different data using the same template. When it’s about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes.
Using dummy content or fake information in the Web design process can result in products with unrealistic assumptions and potentially serious design flaws.
When it’s about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, profiles or user in social networks.
That's not so bad, there's dummy copy to the rescue. But worse, what if the fish doesn't fit in the can, the foot's to big for the boot? Or to small? To short sentences, to many headings, images.
Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure that you.
