What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
Where does it come from?
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer efficitur ante non justo tincidunt, eget vestibulum magna bibendum. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Etiam vitae nunc nec est pharetra mollis. Phasellus sed rhoncus turpis. Sed purus odio, luctus id ante ac, iaculis fermentum arcu. Mauris eget rhoncus metus, et aliquet purus. Cras sollicitudin nulla tellus. Suspendisse pulvinar, turpis ut ornare suscipit, ex nisl luctus nisi, et porta neque turpis eget leo. Maecenas egestas quis magna vel viverra. Nam in justo quis arcu imperdiet porta quis sit amet elit. Cras ultricies lectus elit, in laoreet diam dignissim et. Donec semper elit et vestibulum consectetur. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia curae; Curabitur mollis velit mauris, in vestibulum lectus convallis et. Pellentesque leo eros, eleifend nec sollicitudin ut, luctus in felis.
Vivamus euismod cursus gravida. Suspendisse sed libero non est fermentum ullamcorper eget vitae arcu. Etiam velit augue, pharetra at imperdiet ut, convallis in dui. Mauris ac consectetur nunc, malesuada luctus sapien. Nullam a accumsan lectus. Mauris semper ex at pretium elementum. Mauris sit amet erat eros.
Sed aliquam mauris non maximus molestie. Etiam imperdiet eget ante sit amet euismod. Etiam aliquam id dui sit amet lobortis. Morbi ut lectus at dolor lacinia euismod. Duis malesuada ultrices diam, non fringilla purus porttitor in. Donec eu ligula suscipit mauris pulvinar placerat sit amet ut orci. Morbi porta ultrices felis, eu tempus elit varius sit amet. Nullam non posuere risus. Sed erat mi, interdum nec varius et, ullamcorper et arcu.
Aliquam pellentesque arcu condimentum, venenatis nisl ac, scelerisque lacus. Vestibulum et arcu at ligula viverra malesuada et at ipsum. Duis at accumsan mauris. Curabitur a porttitor mauris, quis faucibus enim. Pellentesque non sem ac nunc blandit maximus. Integer et dignissim mauris. In vel nisi sed sapien venenatis tempus. Praesent ultrices facilisis hendrerit. In ac neque ac est dignissim accumsan non id dui. Etiam sit amet ultrices sem. Curabitur lobortis felis odio, id sollicitudin lorem interdum vitae. Donec accumsan vestibulum magna. Vestibulum urna erat, aliquet a egestas eu, lacinia iaculis ligula. In facilisis sed orci ut luctus. Praesent justo nibh, hendrerit ac porta nec, accumsan at nulla. Quisque ac ante tortor.
Praesent lorem nunc, blandit ac ultrices nec, tempor non dui. Proin aliquet magna nec sollicitudin semper. Aenean cursus efficitur lacus, ut vestibulum ipsum. Suspendisse facilisis sit amet ante non fringilla. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Donec at ex ac tortor lacinia sodales. Fusce ultrices dignissim ipsum vitae pharetra. Duis hendrerit metus vel turpis viverra fermentum. Maecenas est est, fringilla non augue id, tristique maximus ex. Mauris accumsan elit ut turpis scelerisque, nec tempus ex luctus. Maecenas erat purus, posuere eget diam eget, ultrices volutpat enim. Pellentesque porttitor, odio sed tristique elementum, mauris justo rutrum risus, sit amet congue diam nunc ac magna. Proin ut neque sollicitudin, imperdiet lectus non, finibus diam. Proin ut semper dolor, sed tincidunt lacus.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
