Describe Lorem Ipsum.
Learn everything there is to know about the lorem ipsum passage, from its medieval roots to the modern period.

Ipsum Lorem
For previewing layouts and visual mockups, the placeholder text lorem ipsum is frequently used in the graphic, print, and publishing sectors.

History, goal, and application
Dummy text, also referred to as lipsum or lorem ipsum, is used while planning print, graphic, or web designs. The phrase is credited to an unidentified typesetter who is assumed to have rearranged passages from Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum for inclusion in a type specimen book in the 15th century. Typically, it starts with:

Consectetur adipiscing elit, erat ipsum dolor sit amet, sed eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
The goal of lorem ipsum is to produce a text block (sentence, paragraph, page, etc.) that looks natural and doesn't detract from the layout. Laying out pages with meaningless filler text is a controversial practice, although it can be quite helpful when the emphasis is on design rather than substance.

The passage gained popularity when Letraset featured it on their dry-transfer sheets in the 1960s, and it did so again in the 1990s when desktop publishers included the passage with their software. Today, it may be found on templates, websites, and stock designs all over the internet. Read on for the complete history of lorem ipsum or use our generator to create your own.

 

What Lorem Ipsum means
Lorem ipsum is the ideal placeholder because it was intentionally created to have no meaning but look like actual text.

PERCEPTUALIZING SENSELESS
Don't bother using Google Translate to translate "lorem ipsum." Depending on how you capitalized the letters, you might have previously gotten anything from "NATO" to "China" if you tried. Google has since adjusted their "lorem ipsum" translation to, boringly enough, "lorem ipsum," ending the unusual translation that served as the basis for conspiracy theories.

One courageous person attempted to translate nearly-but-not-quite Latin. In order to make the passage "exactly as confusing in English as it is in Latin - and to make it incoherent in the same way," Jaspreet Singh Boparai attempted the challenge, according to The Guardian. The French word "bien" was therefore created from the Latin word "EU," and the English word "-pendulum" was chosen to represent the Latin word's "-ing" ending in the phrase "lorem ipsum."

 

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