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For testing fonts, producing Lorem Ipsum text is a common practice. There are other attempts to creating such sample texts too. E.g., the "quick brown fox" line. I am aware that the primary motivation of the sample text is to display all the characters available in the script, so that the font undergoes a stress test. But, e.g., Google fonts uses some text from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I guess, it makes sense because they have to produce sample text for so many scripts and UDHR is so far the most translated secular prose document. So for getting comparable results cross-linguistically, it provides a common data source. But keeping this factor aside, is it a typographically wise decision to use it as sample text? I am willing to create a(nother) LaTeX package to produce sample text for showcasing how a document is created in LaTeX and I want to keep it multilingual. In that case, I am attracted to trying it out with UDHR, but I am worried if it will be a good sample. For your reference, I am attaching a quick animated view of the document that I have managed to produce:

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Will something like this be good for testing the document layout and the fonts?


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For testing fonts, producing Lorem Ipsum text is a common practice. There are other attempts to creating such sample texts too. E.g., the "quick brown fox" line. I am aware that the primary motivation of the sample text is to display all the characters available in the script, so that the font undergoes a stress test. But, e.g., Google fonts uses some text from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I guess, it makes sense because they have to produce sample text for so many scripts and UDHR is so far the most translated secular prose document. So for getting comparable results cross-linguistically, it provides a common data source. But keeping this factor aside, is it a typographically wise decision to use it as sample text? I am willing to create a(nother) LaTeX package to produce sample text for showcasing how a document is created in LaTeX and I want to keep it multilingual. In that case, I am attracted to trying it out with UDHR, but I am worried if it will be a good sample. For your reference, I am attaching a quick animated view of the document that I have managed to produce:

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Will something like this be good for testing the document layout and the fonts?


For reasons not known to me the gif isn't directly visible in the post and even when opened in a new tab, its resolution is bad. Here is a link to the PDF.

For testing fonts, producing Lorem Ipsum text is a common practice. There are other attempts to creating such sample texts too. E.g., the "quick brown fox" line. I am aware that the primary motivation of the sample text is to display all the characters available in the script, so that the font undergoes a stress test. But, e.g., Google fonts uses some text from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I guess, it makes sense because they have to produce sample text for so many scripts and UDHR is so far the most translated secular prose document. So for getting comparable results cross-linguistically, it provides a common data source. But keeping this factor aside, is it a typographically wise decision to use it as sample text? I am willing to create a(nother) LaTeX package to produce sample text for showcasing how a document is created in LaTeX and I want to keep it multilingual. In that case, I am attracted to trying it out with UDHR, but I am worried if it will be a good sample. For your reference, I am attaching a quick animated view of the document that I have managed to produce:

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Will something like this be good for testing the document layout and the fonts?


For reasons not known to me the gif wasn't directly visible in the post. Now it seems to be visible, but its resolution is bad. Here is a link to the PDF.

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What are the things that one should one keep in mind while creating a typographic sample?

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For testing fonts, producing Lorem Ipsum text that is a common practice. There are other attempts to creating such sample texts too. E.g., the "quick brown fox" line. I am aware that the primary motivation of the sample text is to display all the characters available in the script, so that the font undergoes a stress test. But, e.g., Google fonts uses some text from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I guess, it makes sense because they have to produce sample text for so many scripts and UDHR is so far the most translated secular prose document. So for getting comparable results cross-linguistically, it provides a common data source. But keeping this factor aside, is it a typographically wise decision to use it as sample text? I am willing to create a(nother) LaTeX package to produce sample text for showcasing how a document is created in LaTeX and I want to keep it multilingual. In that case, I am attracted to trying it out with UDHR, but I am worried if it will be a good sample. For your reference, I am attaching a quick animated view of the document that I have managed to producedproduce:

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Will something like this be good for testing the document layout and the fonts?


For reasons not known to me the gif isn't directly visible in the post and even when opened in a new tab, its resolution is bad. Here is a link to the PDF.

For testing fonts, producing Lorem Ipsum text that is a common practice. There are other attempts to creating such sample texts too. E.g., the "quick brown fox" line. I am aware that the primary motivation of the sample text is to display all the characters available in the script, so that the font undergoes a stress test. But, e.g., Google fonts uses some text from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I guess, it makes sense because they have to produce sample text for so many scripts and UDHR is so far the most translated secular prose document. So for getting comparable results cross-linguistically, it provides a common data source. But keeping this factor aside, is it a typographically wise decision to use it as sample text? I am willing to create a(nother) LaTeX package to produce sample text for showcasing how a document is created in LaTeX and I want to keep it multilingual. In that case, I am attracted to trying it out with UDHR, but I am worried if it will be a good sample. For your reference, I am attaching a quick animated view of the document I have managed to produced:

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Will something like this be good for testing the document layout?

For testing fonts, producing Lorem Ipsum text is a common practice. There are other attempts to creating such sample texts too. E.g., the "quick brown fox" line. I am aware that the primary motivation of the sample text is to display all the characters available in the script, so that the font undergoes a stress test. But, e.g., Google fonts uses some text from Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I guess, it makes sense because they have to produce sample text for so many scripts and UDHR is so far the most translated secular prose document. So for getting comparable results cross-linguistically, it provides a common data source. But keeping this factor aside, is it a typographically wise decision to use it as sample text? I am willing to create a(nother) LaTeX package to produce sample text for showcasing how a document is created in LaTeX and I want to keep it multilingual. In that case, I am attracted to trying it out with UDHR, but I am worried if it will be a good sample. For your reference, I am attaching a quick animated view of the document that I have managed to produce:

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Will something like this be good for testing the document layout and the fonts?


For reasons not known to me the gif isn't directly visible in the post and even when opened in a new tab, its resolution is bad. Here is a link to the PDF.

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