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.

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.

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 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.

Example

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent ac accumsan lorem, sit amet maximus nibh. Morbi in aliquam est. Donec felis eros, ultricies quis eros sit amet, semper finibus leo. Suspendisse eu luctus justo, eu malesuada libero. Cras imperdiet diam ex, et pellentesque libero tristique in. Proin eu bibendum tellus, sit amet faucibus tortor. Nunc nunc eros, pharetra a dapibus eu, placerat condimentum metus. Donec vulputate fringilla tempor. Maecenas eu sodales lorem. Curabitur massa arcu, luctus a molestie vel, dignissim quis quam. Proin aliquam orci varius nunc convallis vulputate. Sed vitae quam ac sem maximus accumsan.

Integer eleifend felis sit amet urna finibus, vitae malesuada ipsum ultricies. Nulla imperdiet nulla at euismod vulputate. Nunc nisi arcu, dapibus ut nibh vitae, egestas ultrices diam. Curabitur ligula ex, rhoncus eget erat nec, cursus dapibus massa. Nullam non nibh fringilla eros lacinia ultricies efficitur vel turpis. Vestibulum pellentesque mi ac massa porta congue. Aliquam vitae elit et metus venenatis interdum. Nulla vel enim fringilla, fermentum lorem in, aliquam quam. Duis mauris tellus, condimentum vel elementum vel, dictum ac tortor.

Cras sed malesuada libero. Integer eleifend augue vitae ante maximus aliquet. Aliquam ante purus, eleifend in libero nec, hendrerit facilisis turpis. Etiam lectus mi, sagittis non ex non, mattis hendrerit massa. Aenean sit amet tellus elit. Sed euismod mattis eros eu vulputate. Pellentesque eu arcu quis ipsum consequat porta vel quis felis. Nam porttitor lacus vitae pharetra iaculis. Cras tincidunt eleifend viverra.

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Mauris suscipit imperdiet nisi eu dapibus. Fusce varius faucibus mauris vitae pretium. Cras consequat ex quam. Phasellus mauris dolor, pharetra eu urna et, tristique malesuada diam. Praesent malesuada metus id sapien fringilla ultrices. Suspendisse potenti. Sed id felis condimentum, porta enim non, faucibus metus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ultrices nisl mauris, non venenatis felis ullamcorper nec. Aenean vehicula elit nibh, eu convallis velit rutrum at.

Aliquam eget metus sapien. Suspendisse vel augue vitae mi efficitur lacinia. Donec commodo dolor quis eros efficitur blandit. Etiam sit amet velit nec arcu lobortis facilisis. Nulla bibendum sodales leo eget ornare. Donec ut faucibus sem, quis interdum augue. Nam vulputate lorem quis leo feugiat, sit amet malesuada nunc commodo. Donec sollicitudin leo lectus, in dapibus justo faucibus a. Curabitur ac ante mollis, consectetur mauris sit amet, mattis nulla.