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).

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.

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.