Form Over Function
So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. It’s like the props in a furniture store—filler text makes it look like someone is home. The same Wordpress template might eventually be home to a fitness blog, a photography website, or the online journal of a cupcake fanatic. Lorem ipsum helps themimagine what the lived-in website might look like.
📌Part of speech, Sentence structure and Article
📌Countable and Uncountable nouns
📌Verb to be, Verb to do, Verb to have
📌Question Words
📌Present Simple Tense
📌Past Perfect Tense
📌Adjective and Comparative
📌Like
📌Special verbs
📌Question tags
Second, use lorem ipsum if you think the placeholder text will be too distracting. For specific projects, collaboration between copywriters and designers may be best, however, like Karen McGrane said, draft copy has a way of turning any meeting about layout decisions into a discussion about word choice. So don’t be afraid to use lorem ipsum to keep everyone focused.
One word of caution: make sure your client knows that lorem ipsum is filler text. You don’t want them wondering why you filled their website with a foreign language, and you certainly don’t want anyone prematurely publishing it.