What is lorem ipsum text?
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.
OK, great. 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.
Where can I get some?
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.
In closing…
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi venenatis porta est quis pharetra. Nullam consectetur lacus sed diam mattis sodales. Nunc at suscipit purus. Proin malesuada pulvinar ante, sed varius diam iaculis accumsan. Nam porttitor quam non faucibus scelerisque. Ut at metus sed erat egestas semper. Nulla iaculis et mi ac commodo. Morbi leo massa, efficitur non arcu porta, hendrerit ornare sem. Suspendisse et dapibus lectus. Nulla facilisis malesuada leo quis malesuada. Pellentesque fringilla justo ipsum, vel facilisis eros placerat non. Aenean sagittis pulvinar ex. Integer ullamcorper ante quis dapibus interdum. Vivamus ac felis scelerisque, auctor magna vel, tempus metus. Suspendisse accumsan sagittis urna, commodo dapibus orci semper rhoncus. Ut egestas dignissim ligula quis rhoncus.
Cras quam purus, convallis id libero id, ullamcorper placerat magna. Vivamus ac lorem libero. Praesent id rhoncus est, id laoreet tellus. Pellentesque rhoncus nisi convallis mi tristique, sed porttitor neque aliquet. Duis fermentum imperdiet vulputate. Mauris lacinia velit massa, vitae ultrices magna posuere non. Nam quis leo molestie, ullamcorper ligula at, posuere quam. Fusce pellentesque varius lectus. Phasellus eu nulla fermentum nibh efficitur ornare. Fusce sed purus sed felis convallis ullamcorper sed ut ligula. Donec scelerisque enim nec sem tincidunt, a tincidunt lectus commodo. Quisque eu sapien ex. Integer ut enim in neque tincidunt fermentum. Sed finibus, elit quis aliquet pellentesque, nisl metus blandit lacus, id viverra est urna et nulla.
Morbi eget libero ut tellus dignissim cursus. Nunc mattis egestas orci, ac auctor erat gravida ut. Cras consectetur condimentum mi quis ultrices. Nullam sit amet libero bibendum, bibendum mauris sed, semper nunc. Nullam ut urna sit amet nisi lacinia faucibus at ut libero. Aliquam odio ex, laoreet quis nunc eu, luctus gravida magna. Praesent ultricies congue velit, eget venenatis risus malesuada non. Nulla vestibulum, nunc ut tempor ornare, metus ex aliquam quam, eget tempus lectus dui vitae nisi. Praesent tincidunt laoreet lorem ac consectetur. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Phasellus id luctus elit. Donec metus justo, placerat sed fermentum at, pellentesque et sem. Mauris blandit urna nec tortor rhoncus varius. Pellentesque at varius risus, eget scelerisque nulla. Nullam viverra purus sed leo vestibulum fringilla.
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