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I don’t know about you, but Lorem Ipsum and I were very close throughout college, and we still hang out now on certain projects. After seeing the Blind Text Generator, however, I think Lorem and I may have to part ways.

The Blind Text Generator introduced my to Kafka, Pangram and Far Far Away. This site generates bodies of text based on the amount you need, but instead of using the garbled language of Lorem Ipsum, Kafka and other forms actually generate words so that it looks a little more believable. Here is a chunk of Kafka in paragraph form:

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me? ” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.

Even though I have many great memories with Lorem, I think I may have to try these other options. Plus it’s just a fun change from seeing the same text again and again. Try out the generator, Kafka and others here.

via swissmiss