It has long been a known fact that a reader, while viewing the layout of a page , distracted by the readable content. The main point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it is a more or less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to " your text here , text here " making it more or less readable Dutch . Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text , and a search for ' lorem ipsum ' uncover many web sites still under construction . Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose ( injected humor and the like ) .
Contrary to what is commonly believed Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text . it has its roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC . and is more than 2000 years old. Richard McClintock , a professor of Latin at the Hampden - Sydney College in Virginia , one of the more obscure Latin words , consectetur , from a Lorem Ipsum passage searched and discovered the unimpeachable source while searching for the word in classical literature . Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1:10:32 and 1:10:33 of " 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 phrase in section 1:10:32 .