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).
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.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris faucibus lacinia ex nec dictum. Curabitur consectetur non nisi vitae posuere. Integer non mauris faucibus, laoreet metus ac, porta metus. Sed vulputate maximus tellus, in dapibus dui pellentesque et. Donec et sollicitudin nisi. Donec sollicitudin sapien a porttitor sagittis. Phasellus eu ipsum ullamcorper, pulvinar erat lacinia, hendrerit tortor. Sed eu leo eget sapien dignissim condimentum. Duis eu finibus est. Vestibulum hendrerit, ligula suscipit auctor faucibus, risus elit dictum nulla, id facilisis dui ante sit amet velit. Donec lobortis felis eu nisl vehicula, non tincidunt nibh ullamcorper. Morbi lacinia tellus ac viverra feugiat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Pellentesque pulvinar ante vel lectus pellentesque sollicitudin. In sit amet vulputate erat.
Donec placerat convallis ultricies. Curabitur a faucibus eros. Sed ullamcorper erat sed turpis posuere efficitur. Integer laoreet purus quis diam sodales, vitae dictum mauris egestas. Integer non purus a mi posuere rhoncus ut eget tellus. Morbi sed mi augue. Maecenas bibendum ipsum quis ligula tincidunt, a commodo elit pulvinar. Phasellus ultricies nisi nec sem rutrum mollis. Phasellus bibendum tempor fermentum. Suspendisse dui elit, mollis nec rhoncus at, sollicitudin nec nisl. Nullam eget enim lectus. Vivamus suscipit id urna at semper. Donec dictum dolor enim, et posuere mi viverra non. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Praesent libero erat, vehicula eget purus sit amet, sagittis laoreet magna.
Curabitur efficitur mauris id convallis maximus. Praesent at sem eu massa accumsan convallis. Duis vitae ultrices mi. Praesent feugiat efficitur ligula, et accumsan nisl iaculis at. Aliquam ac viverra velit. Donec laoreet velit non est porta, sit amet commodo tellus venenatis. Vivamus aliquet porta erat, at volutpat nibh bibendum vitae. Aliquam pretium, diam ut sollicitudin pellentesque, ipsum diam cursus purus, et vulputate odio purus a libero. Vestibulum id lacus pulvinar, pretium libero a, consectetur magna. Quisque imperdiet lectus arcu, vitae scelerisque velit finibus ut. Nam congue elit at urna accumsan consectetur quis quis felis. Maecenas dignissim nibh orci, quis placerat sem ultricies vel. Praesent eros metus, ornare vitae eros eget, mattis condimentum quam. Curabitur rutrum orci eros, eget convallis ipsum malesuada sit amet. Sed viverra augue et gravida vestibulum. Quisque id metus nec ex aliquam aliquam.
Duis at aliquet arcu, ac malesuada nunc. Nunc varius ligula nibh, ut sollicitudin ligula imperdiet et. Quisque accumsan pulvinar lectus, in sodales metus. Phasellus eu lobortis nisi. Etiam dolor dui, pellentesque a bibendum non, convallis ac eros. Curabitur eget erat sed sapien interdum malesuada. Nulla porta tincidunt turpis in facilisis. Nam nec quam eu mi auctor blandit at ut ante.
Ut pharetra ligula quis nulla congue suscipit. Phasellus auctor id elit dapibus tristique. Morbi consequat tortor tellus, ut tincidunt ante efficitur vel. Aliquam feugiat risus eu tellus dignissim, ut vestibulum mi rutrum. Praesent rhoncus ante fringilla pharetra tincidunt. Integer a feugiat urna. Nulla facilisi. Vivamus in molestie diam. Curabitur ac scelerisque tortor. Aenean at eleifend lorem.