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. Nam consectetur risus sit amet eros convallis, id iaculis tortor facilisis. Donec tortor leo, volutpat quis posuere id, vulputate quis nibh. Ut ac feugiat est. Sed non finibus ligula. Praesent condimentum urna ante, eget consectetur dui dapibus id. Quisque pulvinar venenatis diam, ut tempor libero ultricies ultrices. Curabitur a commodo eros. Nulla maximus sapien sed accumsan accumsan. Integer sed ex lectus. In rhoncus, leo ut posuere euismod, felis dui accumsan nisi, et ullamcorper neque sem nec orci. Sed condimentum velit ac eleifend tempor. Morbi a dui vulputate, ornare diam nec, finibus ipsum. Vestibulum pellentesque urna et ipsum sollicitudin consectetur. Aenean volutpat elit ut pellentesque interdum. Sed porttitor tellus eget tempor elementum.
Donec libero nisl, tempor ullamcorper porta eget, maximus et sem. Nam porta pharetra massa a malesuada. Mauris ullamcorper ultricies egestas. Quisque in arcu sit amet orci volutpat accumsan ac eget mauris. Vestibulum scelerisque mi turpis, ac faucibus ipsum feugiat a. Proin urna mi, volutpat at sollicitudin sed, interdum ut nunc. Cras suscipit neque nunc, sed scelerisque purus blandit id.
Aliquam scelerisque tempor ipsum, sit amet hendrerit dolor venenatis at. Donec volutpat dui sollicitudin sapien dignissim placerat. Sed vitae eleifend est, in fringilla dui. Nullam facilisis tempor nibh vel porttitor. Nam quis lorem varius, vehicula est sed, elementum sapien. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Donec at magna tempus, blandit massa vel, elementum lorem. Nunc sollicitudin purus velit, at mattis purus posuere ut. Mauris at risus non metus blandit dictum sit amet aliquam libero. Vestibulum faucibus, mauris eu faucibus dictum, ligula quam ultricies nibh, et elementum felis est ac nulla. Nunc aliquet urna et laoreet congue. Aliquam sed leo eu orci egestas euismod. Integer posuere nisl vitae luctus suscipit. Fusce in fringilla enim. Ut congue neque quis vehicula tempor. Etiam vitae vestibulum dolor.
Curabitur dolor arcu, rutrum non faucibus nec, faucibus vel ante. Maecenas auctor rhoncus dictum. Quisque porttitor, dolor in hendrerit tincidunt, mauris ligula semper eros, viverra faucibus ante arcu ut est. Aenean pharetra purus sagittis mi consequat molestie. Donec nec sollicitudin dui. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nullam ullamcorper magna et quam dictum, facilisis molestie nulla tincidunt. Ut eu tellus lorem.
Cras sollicitudin nisi a commodo pretium. Sed pharetra purus consequat, lobortis libero ut, sodales erat. Fusce dictum commodo erat, sit amet eleifend massa pulvinar ultrices. Pellentesque vel quam nec nunc tempor posuere. Cras varius varius tincidunt. Quisque feugiat ligula a placerat malesuada. Pellentesque vel mi eu justo pretium consequat. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia curae; Praesent sed dolor a ligula mattis aliquet. Cras vel nulla tortor. Donec dapibus diam non feugiat euismod.
Donec aliquam, orci ac sagittis commodo, eros libero lacinia ex, eget bibendum sapien tellus a turpis. Sed quis posuere sem. Ut vel nisi ultricies, volutpat metus sit amet, accumsan tellus. Aenean tempor nisl est, sit amet ullamcorper est gravida non. Proin hendrerit justo a nunc vestibulum.