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.
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).
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.
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.
