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The clean series
Cufflinks and tie bars serve different purposes but work best together. Cufflinks hold your cuffs closed with style, while a tie bar keeps your tie in place and adds a sharp horizontal line to your look.
Wearing both at once is perfectly acceptable — in fact, it's encouraged for formal occasions. The trick is to keep them in the same metal family. Silver cufflinks with a silver tie bar, gold with gold. Consistency is everything.
For specific projects, collaboration between copywriters and designers may be best, however, like Karen McGrane said, draft copy has a way of turning any meeting about layout decisions into a discussion about word choice. So don’t be afraid to use lorem ipsum to keep everyone focused. One word of caution: make sure your client knows that lorem ipsum is filler text. You don’t want them wondering why you filled their website with a foreign language, and you certainly don’t want anyone prematurely publishing it. So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. It’s like the props in a furniture store—filler text makes it look like someone is home. The same WordPress template might eventually be home to a fitness blog, a photography website, or the online journal of a cupcake fanatic. Lorem ipsum helps them imagine what the lived-in website might look like. Second, use lorem ipsum if you think the placeholder text will be too distracting.
