I frequently found myself writing a load of wacky type, oftent within a CMS WYSIWYG editor, simply to visualise the typographic styles I was setting in a live environment. That shit gets real tiresome real quick, so I made this thing.
In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready. Think of a news blog that’s filled with content hourly on the day of going live. However, reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or the internet. The are likely to focus on the text, disregarding the layout and its elements. Church-key tousled forage cliche quinoa Truffaut.
Not awesome but still pretty darn important.
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There’s very few legitimate reasons to go below h3.
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Really, this doesn’t seem very important does it?
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I’ve given up at this point.
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Nothing to see here.
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Rules
Check it out, horizontal rules. These need special treatment if they aren’t going to fubar your baseline.
Phrase elements
When I speak to people I don’t know, I frequently place a strong, and often random, emphasis on certain words to creep them out.
If they are old enough to have have used dial-up modems I use b tags or, almost certainly random, i tags instead. That’s how I roll.
Quotes
This is a paragraph with an “awesome inline quote using q tags”, the of type which I’d all but forgotten about. Does anyone use those?
I found myself writing a selection of wacky type, usually within a CMS editor in my case, in order to visualise the typographic styles I was setting in a live environment. That shit gets boring eventually, so I decided to do this thing instead.
And for the really fancy stuff:
Sometimes, I go nuts and to put paragraph tags inside the blockquotes!
Because sometimes you need more than one paragraph inside a blockquote. Not often mind.
And, as long as it’s something I’m willing to admit to, I’ll go as far as citing the quote with cite tags, thusly:
I frequently surprise myself with the ease at which I can type random shit!
I said that, right here.
Code
If I want demo my l33t haxx0r skillz I’ll
Serve you my code inside pre tags
Or even: Lovely, semantic code tags!
If I’m feeling particularly retro, I might define the following as keyboard input (chuckle) using kbd tags: (ma)h this cod3z in br0. M@d skillz. Beep.
Gists
I’m going to randomly embed a Gist here (using Jekyll’s syntax), because people sometimes do that. Deal with it.
Other things
If there are things I don’t really want, or expect, you to read like all that legal junk I’ll hide all that inside small tags, so you know it isn’t really important, because I don’t give a shit details matter. I might use mark tags to make things ugly.
For definitions it’s best to use the dfn tag, thusly:
Moron (mo·ron) - A person who’d write a whole page of this crap in order to check their typographical basics.