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- [Narrator] During the early stages of proofing you won't be working with the full character set. But you'll want to figure out whether you're on the right track. Keywords, words composed from portions of an alphabet will help. There are two keywords that typographers commonly use to judge a design. The first is the simple Adhesion. It addresses two difficult characters, the lower case 'a' and the lower case 's' and a small group of the usual suspects. The second more challenging keyword is Hamburgefontsiv. While it's nonsensical it does add an essential capital. The difficult lowercase 'g' form and one angled letter. Enter adhesiontext.com from type designer Miguel Sousa. Build as a dynamic dummy text generator, it works just like you hope it would. Feed in the characters that you have, set the options, and click Get Dummy Text. Adhesion text gives you a list of all the words possible with your combination of characters. Keywords are an important part of the transformation of…

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