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.

  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
  • Nunc convallis ipsum sit amet sapien molestie bibendum.
  • Vestibulum eget ipsum sit amet est condimentum feugiat.
  • Praesent eget arcu tempus, eleifend libero tincidunt, aliquet est.
  • Nullam sagittis ipsum a mauris gravida vulputate.
  • Nunc venenatis est at quam pretium, id tincidunt ipsum ultrices.
  • Vestibulum ullamcorper ligula at lacus consequat, a scelerisque diam auctor.
  • Fusce sed massa non nisl mattis imperdiet in iaculis leo.
  • Maecenas sagittis magna in diam pretium bibendum.
  • Donec fermentum mauris a sagittis tempus.
  • Phasellus ac tellus sollicitudin, venenatis odio quis, convallis magna.
  • Quisque gravida libero eu lacus sollicitudin vehicula vel quis mi.
  • Suspendisse ultricies purus quis eleifend bibendum.
  • Fusce feugiat turpis et neque scelerisque condimentum.
  • Quisque sit amet orci quis arcu pretium euismod quis rhoncus ligula.
  • Quisque congue neque a nibh mollis hendrerit.
  • Nunc commodo turpis in nibh vehicula dignissim.
  • Nulla at lacus ullamcorper, volutpat diam eget, consequat leo.
  • Cras ac risus maximus, hendrerit erat eu, cursus arcu.

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).

  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
  • Nunc convallis ipsum sit amet sapien molestie bibendum.
  • Vestibulum eget ipsum sit amet est condimentum feugiat.
  • Praesent eget arcu tempus, eleifend libero tincidunt, aliquet est.
  • Nullam sagittis ipsum a mauris gravida vulputate.
  • Nunc venenatis est at quam pretium, id tincidunt ipsum ultrices.
  • Vestibulum ullamcorper ligula at lacus consequat, a scelerisque diam auctor.
  • Fusce sed massa non nisl mattis imperdiet in iaculis leo.
  • Maecenas sagittis magna in diam pretium bibendum.
  • Donec fermentum mauris a sagittis tempus.
  • Phasellus ac tellus sollicitudin, venenatis odio quis, convallis magna.
  • Quisque gravida libero eu lacus sollicitudin vehicula vel quis mi.
  • Suspendisse ultricies purus quis eleifend bibendum.
  • Fusce feugiat turpis et neque scelerisque condimentum.
  • Quisque sit amet orci quis arcu pretium euismod quis rhoncus ligula.
  • Quisque congue neque a nibh mollis hendrerit.
  • Nunc commodo turpis in nibh vehicula dignissim.
  • Nulla at lacus ullamcorper, volutpat diam eget, consequat leo.
  • Cras ac risus maximus, hendrerit erat eu, cursus arcu.

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.
  • Nunc convallis ipsum sit amet sapien molestie bibendum.
  • Vestibulum eget ipsum sit amet est condimentum feugiat.
  • Praesent eget arcu tempus, eleifend libero tincidunt, aliquet est.
  • Nullam sagittis ipsum a mauris gravida vulputate.
  • Nunc venenatis est at quam pretium, id tincidunt ipsum ultrices.
  • Vestibulum ullamcorper ligula at lacus consequat, a scelerisque diam auctor.
  • Fusce sed massa non nisl mattis imperdiet in iaculis leo.
  • Maecenas sagittis magna in diam pretium bibendum.
  • Donec fermentum mauris a sagittis tempus.
  • Phasellus ac tellus sollicitudin, venenatis odio quis, convallis magna.
  • Quisque gravida libero eu lacus sollicitudin vehicula vel quis mi.
  • Suspendisse ultricies purus quis eleifend bibendum.
  • Fusce feugiat turpis et neque scelerisque condimentum.
  • Quisque sit amet orci quis arcu pretium euismod quis rhoncus ligula.
  • Quisque congue neque a nibh mollis hendrerit.
  • Nunc commodo turpis in nibh vehicula dignissim.
  • Nulla at lacus ullamcorper, volutpat diam eget, consequat leo.
  • Cras ac risus maximus, hendrerit erat eu, cursus arcu.

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.

  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
  • Nunc convallis ipsum sit amet sapien molestie bibendum.
  • Vestibulum eget ipsum sit amet est condimentum feugiat.
  • Praesent eget arcu tempus, eleifend libero tincidunt, aliquet est.
  • Nullam sagittis ipsum a mauris gravida vulputate.
  • Nunc venenatis est at quam pretium, id tincidunt ipsum ultrices.
  • Vestibulum ullamcorper ligula at lacus consequat, a scelerisque diam auctor.
  • Fusce sed massa non nisl mattis imperdiet in iaculis leo.
  • Maecenas sagittis magna in diam pretium bibendum.
  • Donec fermentum mauris a sagittis tempus.
  • Phasellus ac tellus sollicitudin, venenatis odio quis, convallis magna.
  • Quisque gravida libero eu lacus sollicitudin vehicula vel quis mi.
  • Suspendisse ultricies purus quis eleifend bibendum.
  • Fusce feugiat turpis et neque scelerisque condimentum.
  • Quisque sit amet orci quis arcu pretium euismod quis rhoncus ligula.
  • Quisque congue neque a nibh mollis hendrerit.
  • Nunc commodo turpis in nibh vehicula dignissim.
  • Nulla at lacus ullamcorper, volutpat diam eget, consequat leo.
  • Cras ac risus maximus, hendrerit erat eu, cursus arcu.