Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/30/lorem-ipsum-but-for-images.html
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That’s how I feel inside when thinking about politics.
But I agree, the problem with using this as placeholder images, say if you are making a mockup, is that a pictures carry context and you’ll spend a lot of time explaining to a client that, “no, there won’t be a duck there,” or worse, “I know you like the duck, but we can’t use that duck. How about another duck?”
let’s see what I get for 250/350
looks like I get a link in Discourse.
there may be a way to get the embed but I forget
I once had a client think that the term “dummy text” referred to him specifically.
This problem has no solution.
That’s very nice but I’ll stick with PlaceCage for now.
Just attach an “under construction” gif like we used to do in the old days.
Hah! I’ve had clients complain that they couldn’t read it. One asked why we put French in there.
My boss is the actual living case study for the need for Lorem Ipsum. Incredibly eye for detail, zero attention span for context/filter. The other day, I was opening up a browser window in the conference room to show a website I had been working on. She sat bolt upright, and said, edging into panic, “Go back, Go back”
Me: Wha…what did you see, [boss]?
Colleagues in the Room: [grip table]
Boss: Something, something about unemployment numbers! Why did we post that?!
Me: What, Where?
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long story short, it had been a “suggested reading” story on Firefox’s “new tab” screen. Crisis narrowly averted.
throwing a “.jpg” onto the end of the url (ie https://picsum.photos/id/315/250/350.jpg seems to work
You could just use a rectangle. Seems to me this could lead to a document going out the door with an un-substituted photo of a puppy.
I don’t think these are right at all, as they are actual content. I think probably Lorem Ipsum for images should be some sort of random colored shapes which have just enough structure to look like real images, but not actually be of anything.
Perhaps deep-dream images through a heavy mosaic filter.
pozzumne habere hamberder?
Coincidentally there’s a virtually identical “kitten ipsum” site out there that does the same thing as picsum, but exclusively with kittens
This client intentionally left blank.
A rectangle? Next thing you’ll tell us is to use some weirdo app like “Freehand” or “Inkscape” for layouting instead of MS-Office as serious people do. GIFs are industry standard and they still will be industry standard in 1000 years!
Of course these photos will end up being left in on the final product. Especially in corporate brochures and websites where the actual photos used resemble these no-meaning images anyway.
For client presentations, Lorem Ipsum is always a disaster.
Here I was, writing an article on Ambien, and I needed a meaningless placeholder image. Voila:
oops.
But what document wouldn’t be improved with a picture of a puppy?