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An unknown printer created a type specimen book in the 15th century by scrambling metal letters. This specimen book survived centuries of technological changes, remaining mostly unchanged. In the 1960s, excerpts from this book called Lorem Ipsum became popular filler text for graphic design templates and software. Lorem Ipsum is commonly used today because its distribution of letters and words looks similar to normal text, making it suitable for demonstrating page layouts without the distraction of meaningful content. The text originates from sections of Cicero's 45 BC book "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum."

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An unknown printer created a type specimen book in the 15th century by scrambling metal letters. This specimen book survived centuries of technological changes, remaining mostly unchanged. In the 1960s, excerpts from this book called Lorem Ipsum became popular filler text for graphic design templates and software. Lorem Ipsum is commonly used today because its distribution of letters and words looks similar to normal text, making it suitable for demonstrating page layouts without the distraction of meaningful content. The text originates from sections of Cicero's 45 BC book "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum."

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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).

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?


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 goin

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.
m 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

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