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.
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).
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. Cras turpis ligula, ultrices nec nisl et, maximus lobortis neque. Donec vulputate orci non lacus ullamcorper, nec accumsan libero tincidunt. Proin nec est sed sapien euismod consectetur id at tellus. Phasellus eu mauris eget turpis consequat tempor quis quis est. Aliquam rhoncus viverra augue, id fringilla nunc semper egestas. Aliquam facilisis elementum elit vel convallis. Vestibulum mattis nisi quis nisl auctor, in sagittis nisl egestas. Donec molestie efficitur elit in convallis. Pellentesque a elit porttitor dolor accumsan sagittis. Vivamus sit amet ultrices odio.
Maecenas malesuada, turpis sed fringilla volutpat, sapien diam tempor nisl, ut mattis lorem massa sit amet erat. Nulla ornare eros vel velit molestie dapibus. Duis commodo neque sit amet dui ornare, a euismod quam maximus. Quisque sit amet enim tempor, facilisis felis non, tincidunt ligula. Nulla bibendum eleifend purus quis blandit. Duis eu massa cursus, elementum libero non, lacinia turpis. Integer dignissim vehicula tellus, et tempus dui feugiat consectetur. Nunc posuere aliquam tellus ac venenatis. Nulla facilisi. Phasellus nec quam ultrices, tristique lorem sit amet, tincidunt orci. Suspendisse pellentesque vehicula elementum. Integer placerat dignissim porta.
