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 E
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 E
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