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Using lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a

webpage design proposal

Page break in Rackham (Loeb) edition of Cicero De Finibus

showing origin of lorem ipsum from hyphenation of dolorem
ipsum
from Latin dolorem ipsum, translated as pain itself) is
a ller text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic Lorem ipsum text is derived from sections 1.10.33 of
elements of a document or visual presentation. Replacing
Ciceros De nibus bonorum et malorum.[2]
meaningful content with placeholder text allows designers
to design the form of the content before the content itself It is not known exactly when the text obtained its cur-
has been produced. rent standard form; it may have been as late as the
1960s. Dr. Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar who
The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of was the publications director at HampdenSydney Col-
De nibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin lege in Virginia, discovered the source of the passage
text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed sometime before 1982 while searching for instances of
to make it nonsensical, improper Latin. the Latin word "consectetur", rarely used in classical
A variation of the ordinary lorem ipsum text has been literature.[1][lower-alpha 1] The physical source of the Lorem
used in typesetting since the 1960s or earlier, when it Ipsum text may be the 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edi-
was popularized by advertisements for Letraset transfer tion of the De Finibus, where the Latin text nishes page
sheets. It was introduced to the Information Age in the 34 with Neque porro quisquam est qui do-" and begins
mid-1980s by Aldus Corporation, which employed it in page 36 with lorem ipsum (et seq.)", suggesting that
graphics and word-processing templates for its desktop the galley type of that page 36 was mixed up to make the
publishing program PageMaker.[1] dummy text seen today.

1
2 5 VARIATIONS
3 Latin source
The original version (with the excerpted items high-
lighted) appears in the 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edi-
tion of the De Finibus, Book 1, sections 323:
[32] Sed ut perspiciatis, unde omnis
iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium
doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam
eaque ipsa, quae ab illo inventore veritatis
et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt,
explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem,
quia voluptas sit, aspernatur aut odit aut fugit,
sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos, qui
ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt, neque porro
quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor
sit amet consectetur adipisci[ng] velit, sed
quia non numquam [do] eius modi tempora
inci[di]dunt, ut labore et dolore magnam
aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad
minima veniam, quis nostrum exercita-
tionem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam,
nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur?
Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit,
qui in ea voluptate velit esse, quam nihil
molestiae consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem
eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariatur?
[33] At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio
dignissimos ducimus, qui blanditiis praesen-
tium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti, quos
dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint, ob-
caecati cupiditate non provident, similique
sunt in culpa, qui ocia deserunt mollitia
animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et
harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita dis-
tinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis
est eligendi optio, cumque nihil impedit, quo
minus id, quod maxime placeat, facere pos-
simus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis
dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibus-
dam et aut ociis debitis aut rerum necessitati-
bus saepe eveniet, ut et voluptates repudiandae
sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum
rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut re-
iciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur
aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat
4 English translation
This is H. Rackhams 1914 translation in the aforemen- Makers graphics and word processing templates.
tioned Loeb Classical Library edition with the major Nowadays a variety of software, including text and plug-
source of lorem ipsum highlighted:
[32] But I must explain to you how all this
mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and
praising pain was born and I will give you a
complete account of the system, and expound
the actual teachings of the great explorer of
the truth, the master-builder of human happi-
ness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids plea-
sure itself, because it is pleasure, but because
those who do not know how to pursue pleasure
rationally encounter consequences that are ex-
tremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who
loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of
itself, because it is pain, but occasionally cir-
cumstances occur in which toil and pain can
procure him some great pleasure. To take a
trivial example, which of us ever undertakes
laborious physical exercise, except to obtain
some advantage from it? But who has any
right to nd fault with a man who chooses to
enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying conse-
quences, or one who avoids a pain that pro-
duces no resultant pleasure?
[33] On the other hand, we denounce with
righteous indignation and dislike men who are
so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of
pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire,
that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble
that are bound to ensue; and equal blame be-
longs to those who fail in their duty through
weakness of will, which is the same as say-
ing through shrinking from toil and pain.
These cases are perfectly simple and easy to
distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of
choice is untrammeled and when nothing pre-
vents our being able to do what we like best,
every pleasure is to be welcomed and every
pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and
owing to the claims of duty or the obligations
of business it will frequently occur that plea-
sures have to be repudiated and annoyances ac-
cepted. The wise man therefore always holds in
these matters to this principle of selection: he
rejects pleasures to secure other greater plea-
sures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse
pains.
5 Variations
A version of lorem ipsum was created in the mid-
1980s for Aldus Corporations desktop publishing pro-
gram PageMaker.[1] Aldus adapted older forms of the
lorem text from typography samples to use in Page-
ins, can generate semi-random lorem-like text, which
often has little or nothing in common with the canon-
ical adaptations other than looking like (and often be-
ing) jumbled Latin. Apples Pages and Keynote soft-
 3

[3] Bray, Kurt (1995-10-05). Subject: Re: Pig Latin Di-

alects. Georgetown University.

[4] How to insert sample text into a document in Word.

Microsoft Support. September 18, 2011. Retrieved
November 14, 2011.

9 External links
The original De nibus bonorum et malorum (Book
1) from Cicero, on Latin WikiSource

A lorem ipsum placeholder text was inadvertently published in

The Straits Times, a Singapore newspaper, on 26 April 2014.

ware employ such jumbled text as sample screenplay lay-

out. Lorem ipsum is also featured on Joomla!, Google
Docs, and WordPress web content managers. Microsoft
Word 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 have a lorem ipsum
feature.[4]

6 See also
Asemic writing

Etaoin shrdlu

Greeking

Lenna

Li Europan lingues

List of Latin phrases

Metasyntactic variable

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

7 Notes
[1] The information was rst published early in 1994 in a let-
ter to the editor of Before & After magazine in volume
4 issue 1 of the publication, contesting the editors earlier
claim that lorem ipsum had no meaning.[3]

8 References
[1] Adams, Cecil (February 2001), What does the ller text
lorem ipsum mean?, The Straight Dope

[2] Description of the Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet text that
appears in Word Help. Microsoft. Retrieved 2007-03-
22.
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