Greeking

Greeking obscures portions of a work for the purpose of either emphasizing form over details or displaying placeholders for unavailable content.

Greeked text is used in typography to evaluate a certain typeface's appropriateness, overall style or type color.

In computing, Greeking can refer to the automatic rendering of text characters as unreadable symbols or lines in the layout preview function of word processing documents, either to speed up screen display[2] or because the graphics display capabilities of the monitor are insufficient for rendering extremely small texts.

[3] The term "greeking" was applied by various WYSIWYG editors of the 1980s, such as ApplixWare and Island Graphics.

Greeking referred to the substitution of text with a placeholder gray bar upon moving out of focus.

Greeking in the form of a lorem ipsum placeholder text that was inadvertently published in The Straits Times , a Singapore newspaper, on 26 April 2014