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.
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
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum
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.
| Text 1 | Text 2 | Text 3 |
| The standard chunk of | The standard chunk of | The standard chunk of |
| massa non libero vulputate | massa non libero vulputate | massa non libero vulputate |
| massa non libero vulputate | massa non libero vulputate | massa non libero vulputate |
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, accompanie.
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit2
- Vivamus tempus augue ut mi mollis, quis pretium purus bibendum.
- Duis at turpis nec arcu interdum sodales vitae faucibus eros.
- Etiam nec lorem tristique, imperdiet leo ac, consectetur ligula.
Sed elementum libero quis tristique ultricies.
- Suspendisse consectetur massa non libero vulputate, et molestie orci scelerisque.
- Donec volutpat libero nec neque pulvinar hendrerit.
- Ut a mi bibendum massa maximus euismod a non nisi.
- Nullam faucibus tellus eget consequat iaculis.