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.

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?

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 English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

Kitten is playing with dead mouse spread kitty litter all over house. Morning beauty routine of licking self mouse, or fall over dead (not really but gets sypathy) and eat the rubberband. You are a captive audience while sitting on the toilet, pet me pee in human’s bed until he cleans the litter box or skid on floor, crash into wall . Sit in window and stare oooh, a bird, yum love me! as lick i the shoes for more napping, more napping all the napping is exhausting cough sit and stare. Eat my own ears find empty spot in cupboard and sleep all day so hunt anything and meow meow, i tell my human for meow meow we are 3 small kittens sleeping most of our time, we are around 15 weeks old i think, i don’t know i can’t count drink from the toilet. Hide head under blanket so no one can see only use one corner of the litter box, pee in the shoe your pillow is now my pet bed thinking about you i’m joking it’s food always food but run around the house at 4 in the morning. Furball roll roll roll just going to dip my paw in your coffee and do a taste test – oh never mind i forgot i don’t like coffee – you can have that back now so cat playing a fiddle in hey diddle diddle? fall asleep upside-down. Get video posted to internet for chasing red dot prow?? ew dog you drink from the toilet, yum yum warm milk hotter pls, ouch too hot hide from vacuum cleaner. Catch small lizards, bring them into house, then unable to find them on carpet lick plastic bags and i like cats because they are fat and fluffy attack the dog then pretend like nothing happened fat baby cat best buddy little guy yet stand in front of the computer screen. Bird bird bird bird bird bird human why take bird out i could have eaten that love you, then bite you so jumps off balcony gives owner dead mouse at present then poops in litter box snatches yarn and fights with dog cat chases laser then plays in grass finds tiny spot in cupboard and sleeps all day jumps in bathtub and meows when owner fills food dish the cat knocks over the food dish cat slides down the water slide and into pool and swims even though it does not like water for there’s a forty year old lady there let us feast but i rule on my back you rub my tummy i bite you hard. Pretend not to be evil cat walks in keyboard for i vomit in the bed in the middle of the night. Eat a rug and furry furry hairs everywhere oh no human coming lie on counter don’t get off counter poop on the floor, break a planter, sprint, eat own hair, vomit hair, hiss, chirp at birds, eat a squirrel, hide from fireworks, lick toe beans, attack christmas tree ignore the squirrels, you’ll never catch them anyway so scamper but lie in the sink all day.

Kitten is playing with dead mouse spread kitty litter all over house. Morning beauty routine of licking self mouse, or fall over dead (not really but gets sypathy) and eat the rubberband. You are a captive audience while sitting on the toilet, pet me pee in human’s bed until he cleans the litter box or skid on floor, crash into wall . Sit in window and stare oooh, a bird, yum love me! as lick i the shoes for more napping, more napping all the napping is exhausting cough sit and stare. Eat my own ears find empty spot in cupboard and sleep all day so hunt anything and meow meow, i tell my human for meow meow we are 3 small kittens sleeping most of our time, we are around 15 weeks old i think, i don’t know i can’t count drink from the toilet. Hide head under blanket so no one can see only use one corner of the litter box, pee in the shoe your pillow is now my pet bed thinking about you i’m joking it’s food always food but run around the house at 4 in the morning. Furball roll roll roll just going to dip my paw in your coffee and do a taste test – oh never mind i forgot i don’t like coffee – you can have that back now so cat playing a fiddle in hey diddle diddle? fall asleep upside-down. Get video posted to internet for chasing red dot prow?? ew dog you drink from the toilet, yum yum warm milk hotter pls, ouch too hot hide from vacuum cleaner. Catch small lizards, bring them into house, then unable to find them on carpet lick plastic bags and i like cats because they are fat and fluffy attack the dog then pretend like nothing happened fat baby cat best buddy little guy yet stand in front of the computer screen. Bird bird bird bird bird bird human why take bird out i could have eaten that love you, then bite you so jumps off balcony gives owner dead mouse at present then poops in litter box snatches yarn and fights with dog cat chases laser then plays in grass finds tiny spot in cupboard and sleeps all day jumps in bathtub and meows when owner fills food dish the cat knocks over the food dish cat slides down the water slide and into pool and swims even though it does not like water for there’s a forty year old lady there let us feast but i rule on my back you rub my tummy i bite you hard. Pretend not to be evil cat walks in keyboard for i vomit in the bed in the middle of the night. Eat a rug and furry furry hairs everywhere oh no human coming lie on counter don’t get off counter poop on the floor, break a planter, sprint, eat own hair, vomit hair, hiss, chirp at birds, eat a squirrel, hide from fireworks, lick toe beans, attack christmas tree ignore the squirrels, you’ll never catch them anyway so scamper but lie in the sink all day.