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The purpose of lorem ipsum<\/em> is to create a natural looking block of text (sentence, paragraph, page, etc.) that doesn’t distract from the layout. A practice not without controversy<\/a>, laying out pages with meaningless filler text can be very useful when the focus is meant to be on design, not content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The passage experienced a surge in popularity during the 1960s when Letraset used it on their dry-transfer sheets, and again during the 90s as desktop publishers bundled the text with their software. Today it’s seen all around the web; on templates, websites, and stock designs. Use our generator<\/a> to get your own, or read on for the authoritative history of lorem ipsum<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Form Over Function <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is\u00a0credited<\/a>\u00a0with discovering the source behind. The ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by\u00a0consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from\u00a0De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero. So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero’s\u00a0De Finibus<\/em>\u00a0in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type specimen book. You don’t want them wondering why you filled their website with a foreign language, and you certainly don’t want anyone prematurely publishing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s difficult to find examples of lorem ipsum<\/em> in use before Letraset made it popular as a dummy text in the 1960s, although McClintock says he remembers coming across the lorem ipsum<\/em> passage in a book of old metal type samples. So far he hasn’t relocated where he once saw the passage, but the popularity of Cicero in the 15th century supports the theory that the filler text has been used for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Usage and Examples <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As an alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of De Finibus<\/em> which challenges McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that the dawn of lorem ipsum<\/em> was as recent as the 20th century. The 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition ran out of room on page 34 for the Latin phrase \u201cdolorem ipsum\u201d (sorrow in itself). Thus, the truncated phrase leaves one page dangling with \u201cdo-\u201d, while another begins with the now ubiquitous \u201clorem ipsum\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether a medieval typesetter chose to garble a well-known (but non-Biblical\u2014that would have been sacrilegious) text, or whether a quirk in the 1914 Loeb Edition inspired a graphic designer, it’s admittedly an odd way for Cicero to sail into the 21st century. Whether a medieval typesetter chose to garble a well-known (but non-Biblical\u2014that would have been sacrilegious) text, or whether a quirk in the 1914 Loeb Edition inspired a graphic designer, it’s admittedly an odd way for Cicero to sail into the 21st century. Here is the classic lorem ipsum passage followed by Boparai’s odd, yet mesmerizing version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam hendrerit nisi sed sollicitudin pellentesque. Nunc posuere purus rhoncus pulvinar aliquam. Ut aliquet tristique nisl vitae volutpat. Nulla aliquet porttitor venenatis. Donec a dui et dui fringilla consectetur id nec massa. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed ut dui ut lacus dictum fermentum vel tincidunt neque. Sed sed lacinia lectus. Duis sit amet sodales felis. Duis nunc eros, mattis at dui ac, convallis semper risus. In adipiscing ultrices tellus, in suscipit massa vehicula eu.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nick Richardson described the translation \u201clike extreme Mallarm\u00e9, or a Burroughsian cut-up, or a paragraph of Finnegans Wake. Bits of it have surprising power: the desperate insistence on loving and pursuing sorrow, for instance, that is cheated out of its justification \u2013 an incomplete object that has been either fished for, or wished for.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The purpose of lorem ipsum is to create a natural looking block of text (sentence, paragraph, page, etc.) that doesn’t distract from the layout. A practice not without controversy, laying out pages with meaningless filler text can be very useful when the focus is meant to be on design, not content. The passage experienced a surge in popularity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[96,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/space.xtemos.com\/demo\/orion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}