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What is Lorem Ipsum?

steven@hubmate.co.uk (Steven Steggles) — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:49:11 GMT

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 adipisicing elit. Amet atque delectus dolore dolorum est facilis itaque labore magni mollitia nesciunt optio possimus quibusdam quidem repellat suscipit ullam veniam vero, voluptatum.

Accusamus accusantium animi cum delectus distinctio dolor dolorem dolores eius eos est ex excepturi, exercitationem facilis harum, hic ipsum magnam nam natus nostrum provident quia quisquam rem saepe tempora tempore velit vero voluptates! Accusamus at distinctio eos esse est et, impedit inventore ipsam nisi possimus provident quidem. Commodi, consequatur, cum dolor excepturi harum hic laudantium magni optio praesentium, quis sit soluta ullam voluptatem. Commodi, consequatur, cum dolor excepturi harum hic laudantium magni optio praesentium. Accusamus accusantium animi cum delectus distinctio dolor dolorem dolores eius eos est ex excepturi, exercitationem facilis harum, hic ipsum magnam nam natus nostrum provident an element made possible by its aluminium construction.

Where can I get some?

steven@hubmate.co.uk (Steven Steggles) — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:47:06 GMT

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.

Adipisci aspernatur blanditiis deleniti doloremque eius enim ex facere fugiat in ipsum itaque laborum laudantium libero nisi obcaecati odit quaerat quas, rem sunt, veritatis. Adipisci dicta ex expedita perferendis tempora tempore vel. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. At, fuga harum impedit ipsa laudantium minima optio ratione rerum.

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Where does it come from?

steven@hubmate.co.uk (Steven Steggles) — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:45:28 GMT

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.

Why do we use it?

steven@hubmate.co.uk (Steven Steggles) — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:36:05 GMT

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).