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t 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).

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.

Where can I get some ?