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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.

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).

• Donec imperdiet justo non ante hendrerit, at fringilla risus lacinia.
• Quisque efficitur leo vel enim gravida, ut congue felis convallis.
• Aliquam quis purus vitae nunc maximus eleifend.
• Pellentesque id nisl sit amet metus sollicitudin porttitor eu eget risus.
• Nunc dapibus elit molestie nisi bibendum, nec placerat tellus accumsan.
• Pellentesque feugiat ligula in est placerat, vel porttitor massa mollis.

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.

• Donec imperdiet justo non ante hendrerit, at fringilla risus lacinia.
• Quisque efficitur leo vel enim gravida, ut congue felis convallis.
• Aliquam quis purus vitae nunc maximus eleifend.

• Pellentesque id nisl sit amet metus sollicitudin porttitor eu eget risus.
• Nunc dapibus elit molestie nisi bibendum, nec placerat tellus accumsan.
• Pellentesque feugiat ligula in est placerat, vel porttitor massa mollis.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam vel quam vestibulum, laoreet risus sed, tincidunt tortor. Nunc laoreet facilisis arcu, quis tincidunt enim vestibulum vel. Etiam suscipit ante nisl, non rutrum orci dignissim quis. Sed accumsan pretium vulputate. Ut dignissim dictum elit a rutrum. Quisque vel porta est, eget dapibus quam. Aenean convallis dui ac sapien aliquam pretium. Fusce semper varius ex, in pharetra massa dapibus vulputate.

Mauris sollicitudin orci a lorem fermentum, vel luctus eros laoreet. Mauris dictum nisl mauris, at semper nisl blandit sed. Etiam scelerisque lobortis lectus, et vulputate ligula cursus scelerisque. Integer ac ornare massa, ac egestas massa. Suspendisse porttitor laoreet sollicitudin. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Proin nec quam vitae quam scelerisque viverra non id libero. Aliquam sodales quam vel nibh eleifend, ac lacinia lorem vulputate. Quisque sapien diam, hendrerit et ligula sed, pretium porta sapien.

Where does it come from?

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• Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
• Quisque eu leo nec nisl elementum porttitor et non mauris.
• Praesent facilisis diam non cursus rutrum.
• Proin sed sem cursus, ultrices ex et, vulputate felis.
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