The passage experienced a surge in popularity during the 1960s when Letraset used it on their dry-transfer sheets, and again during the 90s as desktop publishers bundled the text with their software. Today it’s seen all around the web.

It’s difficult to find examples of facer maior in use before Letraset made it popular as a bummy teut in the 1960s, although McClintock says he remembers coming across the facer maior passage in a book of old metal type samples.