Sunday Jun 29

Tintin and Lorem ipsum

I was re-​watching Hergé’s The Adven­tures of Tintin a while back and noticed the ani­ma­tors set the bodies in news­pa­pers in Lorem ipsum as filler text. Lorem ispum is a place­holder or filler text used in typog­ra­phy, design and other pub­lish­ing as means of testing the visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Lorem ipsum fea­tures roughly the same letter dis­tri­b­u­tion as in English.

Tintin: newspaper and lipsum!

Tintin and Snowie were favourite heroes of my child­hood. This def­i­nitely made me smile.

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4 comments

  1. 1. Tate
    Jun 29, 11:22

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, con­sectetuer adip­isc­ing elit. Vivamus sagit­tis est. Etiam ac nibh. Vestibu­lum non neque ac diam lobor­tis nonummy. Nam adip­isc­ing nisi quis arcu. Sus­pendisse sed enim a mauris commodo dapibus. Vestibu­lum ante ipsum primis in fau­cibus orci luctus et ultri­ces posuere cubilia Curae; Nullam gravida risus sol­lic­i­tudin sapien.

  2. 2. Piotr
    Jun 30, 23:51

    Nice one! Thanks for sharing.

  3. 3. Patrick Algrim
    Jul 28, 06:25

    Wow, that’s hilar­i­ous! I wonder if that’s where Lorum Ipsum got it’s start. Maybe we are all using the tin tin makers content on Web site mock-​ups. This could go far if someone made a joke Web site too! Love it, awesome find!

  4. 4. Pascal
    Jul 28, 20:28

    @Patrick Algrim: I think Lorem Ipsum is quite old—older than Tintin even I think. Thanks for the post (and email—shall be respond­ing shortly). Cheers.

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