What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum It is simply the filler text of printing houses and text files. Lorem Ipsum has been the standard filler text of the industry since 1500, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. Not only has it survived 500 years, but it has also entered electronic documents as filler text, remaining essentially unchanged from the original. It was popularized in the 1960s with the creation of “Letraset” sheets, which contained passages of Lorem Ipsum, and more recently with desktop publishing software such as Aldus PageMaker, which includes versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Why do we use it?
It has been a long-established fact that a reader will be distracted by the content of a website's text while reviewing its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more or less normal distribution of letters, unlike using texts such as “Content here, content here.” These texts make it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors use Lorem Ipsum as their default text, and a search for “Lorem Ipsum” will yield many websites still in development. Many versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (like adding humor 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, found one of the more obscure Latin words, “consecteur,” in a passage of Lorem Ipsum, and upon further reading of various Latin texts, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “De Finnibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on ethical theory, 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 piece of Lorem Ipsum text used since 1500 is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions of the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
Where can I get it?
There are many variations of Lorem Ipsum passages available, but most have been altered in some way, either by adding humor or random words that don't seem credible at all. If you are going to use a Lorem Ipsum passage, you need to be sure that there is nothing embarrassing hidden in the middle of the text. All Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the only true (valid) generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with very useful sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum text that looks reasonable. This generated Lorem Ipsum will always be free of repetitions, added humor, or words that are not characteristic of the language, etc.
