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What Is Lorem Ipsum and Why Does It Drive Us Crazy?
Before we talk about Cupcake Ipsum, let's briefly touch on that famous Latin text we all know so well. When working on websites and crying "content, content!" at our clients, we usually type lorem ipsum into Google to pull up those Latin paragraphs (or those who know better go straight to www.lipsum.com) just to show clients what the page will look like.
Those lines that haunt web developers even in their dreams, lines whose meaning we don't even know. You know, these ones:
Reminder:
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. ..."
paragraphs that start like that and go on and oooon and on... 🙂
People have gotten so used to this Latin text that nobody even questions it anymore. But what if you're tired of this classic solution? That's exactly where Cupcake Ipsum comes in.
What Is Cupcake Ipsum?
There's not a day that goes by without people bringing the most unusual ideas to the most unusual topics. One of the products of this wonderful habit is Cupcake Ipsum. Cupcake Ipsum is a genuinely fun alternative text generator made for those who are tired of classic lorem ipsum.
This site greets us with the motto "SUGAR-COATED LOREM IPSUM GENERATOR", and this tool, which we can also call Cipsum for short, lets us prepare project previews filled with sweet, dessert-themed names for our clients. We're hoping our clients will love their projects even more because of it, of course! It's quite a handy tool for web designers and technology enthusiasts.
How to Use Cupcake Ipsum?
To use Cupcake Ipsum, we first go to www.cupcakeipsum.com. After meeting our smiling cupcakes, we follow these steps in order:
1. We set the number of paragraphs. How many paragraphs of text does our project need? We select that.
2. We choose the paragraph size. There are classically 3 options: Long, Medium, Short.
3. Shall we start with Cupcake Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet? If we check this option, our text opens with that iconic sentence just like the original Lorem Ipsum, but in its sweet version of course.
4. We add love to our text. If we check this option, we'll find the word "love" scattered generously throughout our Cupcake Ipsum sentences. Who could say no to that?
After doing all of this (don't let my description fool you, it's actually a pretty quick selection process 🙂 ), we hit the "GENERATE" button and create our text. The copy for our project is ready! If you like, you can also copy the entire text with a single click using the "Copy to Clipboard" button.
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Sample Text Generated with Cupcake Ipsum
Here is an example of Cupcake Ipsum output we generated with the love option turned on:
Cupcake ipsum dolor sit amet I love. Biscuit lollipop chocolate candy macaroon sugar plum pie pastry faworki. Pastry I love I love sesame snaps. Jelly-o biscuit chocolate cake tootsie roll tart pie cupcake halvah. Jelly-o lemon drops jujubes caramels I love I love croissant brownie bonbon. Sweet pie icing toffee ice cream jelly I love toffee. I love sweet roll powder fruitcake oat cake tiramisu powder. Tootsie roll muffin sesame snaps tiramisu chocolate cake marshmallow lemon drops. Candy pudding cake wafer.
Biscuit muffin macaroon fruitcake bonbon chocolate cake. Jujubes dessert applicake tiramisu toffee croissant pudding fruitcake. Fruitcake jelly beans croissant I love gingerbread gingerbread tootsie roll. Tootsie roll lemon drops chocolate dragée oat cake I love candy. Jelly beans cupcake pie pie sweet liquorice. Chupa chups pastry chocolate cake icing wafer. Danish apple pie oat cake.
As you can see, the result is a quite sweet (both figuratively and literally!) piece of text. This little detail, which can bring a smile to your clients' faces, can also make your project presentations a bit more enjoyable.
Conclusion: You No Longer Have to Settle for Lorem Ipsum
Cupcake Ipsum transforms that ordinary and somewhat boring "placeholder text" stage of the web design process into a delightful experience. If you've grown tired of the Latin seriousness of lorem ipsum, we say give this sweet alternative a try. It's free, fast, and quite a lot of fun.
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Until we meet again in another post...
With love to everyone, from Neptune.
