H1 – What is Lorem Ipsum?

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. 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.

H2 – 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).

H3 – 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.

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.

H4 – 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 going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

Quisque et blandit metus, eget interdum quam. Curabitur eget mi in libero lobortis finibus a a justo. Ut pellentesque auctor diam vel facilisis. Fusce semper imperdiet interdum. In ultricies imperdiet risus rutrum maximus. Mauris magna tortor, tincidunt ut maximus id, sollicitudin at libero. Donec eget ipsum vitae lorem rhoncus tincidunt vel ac ipsum. Vestibulum id massa lacinia, semper nibh nec, tempor sapien. Quisque euismod sapien et lectus consequat bibendum. Vestibulum congue placerat orci sed lobortis. Nulla euismod, dui vestibulum posuere luctus, dolor dolor venenatis felis, vel posuere tortor ex nec massa. Vivamus ac vulputate arcu. Aliquam pulvinar dapibus pharetra. Mauris luctus eros quis tempus mollis. Cras mauris velit, placerat sit amet dictum ac, consectetur at dui.

H5 – What is Lorem Ipsum?

Proin rutrum sollicitudin tincidunt. Aliquam nulla leo, facilisis feugiat quam aliquam, viverra facilisis enim. Pellentesque vel tortor vitae urna vulputate feugiat. Nulla at magna nulla. Suspendisse bibendum dolor sit amet mi ullamcorper eleifend. Morbi imperdiet nisl vel ligula commodo, faucibus imperdiet nisi mollis. Morbi tempor dui et mauris convallis, sit amet volutpat mauris mattis. Maecenas varius rhoncus vestibulum. Sed dui metus, cursus eget venenatis sit amet, convallis vel erat. Suspendisse bibendum vehicula est, in pretium mi viverra at. Etiam sit amet lectus non dolor eleifend mollis sit amet vel magna.

THIS PARAGRAPH IS FORMATTED WITH THE DEFAULT PULL QUOTE FORMATTING. Cras sed tristique sem. Proin feugiat augue nec lorem maximus, ut blandit elit egestas. Curabitur tortor felis, facilisis sit amet nisl quis, sagittis vulputate diam. Sed pulvinar augue tempor, commodo massa ac, ullamcorper magna. Morbi cursus, orci non vulputate scelerisque, lacus nulla eleifend odio, quis tempor sapien ligula viverra nisl. Aenean luctus imperdiet nulla, vel cursus neque auctor eu. Morbi vestibulum eleifend orci, vel lobortis tellus. Quisque ac risus sem. Pellentesque nec luctus ante. Duis lorem massa, rutrum a luctus sed, consequat in augue. Vestibulum vel convallis odio, dignissim pulvinar risus. Suspendisse lacus eros, hendrerit eget vehicula at, bibendum volutpat leo. Proin non sem at dolor blandit consequat.Dan McCue, Editor, The Well News

H6 – Why do we use it?

Proin rutrum sollicitudin tincidunt. Aliquam nulla leo, facilisis feugiat quam aliquam, viverra facilisis enim. Pellentesque vel tortor vitae urna vulputate feugiat. Nulla at magna nulla. Suspendisse bibendum dolor sit amet mi ullamcorper eleifend. Morbi imperdiet nisl vel ligula commodo, faucibus imperdiet nisi mollis. Morbi tempor dui et mauris convallis, sit amet volutpat mauris mattis. Maecenas varius rhoncus vestibulum. Sed dui metus, cursus eget venenatis sit amet, convallis vel erat. Suspendisse bibendum vehicula est, in pretium mi viverra at. Etiam sit amet lectus non dolor eleifend mollis sit amet vel magna.

THIS PARAGRAPH IS FORMATTED WITH THE LARGE PULL QUOTE FORMATTING.Ut feugiat turpis non erat malesuada, sed volutpat urna aliquam. Sed pretium mi erat, vitae congue lacus egestas eget. Fusce nunc lacus, scelerisque et nunc eleifend, sodales dapibus elit. Pellentesque mollis vel sem vel lobortis. Nullam ut lobortis erat, sit amet tincidunt purus. Vestibulum odio erat, blandit rutrum malesuada eget, rutrum nec urna. Integer sit amet ex at nibh ornare lacinia a eu velit. Quisque semper id enim vel bibendum. Maecenas at neque felis. Donec sapien urna, iaculis finibus felis eget, porttitor auctor mi. Vestibulum at tortor nunc. Fusce tincidunt, nulla ac blandit semper, turpis velit luctus justo, vel vestibulum enim arcu a ipsum. Aenean ut egestas diam. Sed arcu ligula, tristique nec ex ut, congue bibendum est.Jess DeLoach, Comms Director, The Well News