The dummy copy at this site is made from a dictionary of 500

words from Cicero's original source and the text fragments

traditionally added. We use a lexical scheme to ensure a
grammatically correct look and feel. This avoids repetitions,
unintentional humor, and structures considered non-idiomatic
for standard lipsum filler text. This generator doesn't just add
chunks of predefined text with a limited choice of words.
Besides providing lipsum in exotic charsets and languages, we
provide Japanese lipsum with an adequate ratio of kanji, kana,
hiragana, and rōmaji. Japanese, Chinese, and Korean dummy
copy apply basic rules of grammar and orthography to prevent
inadequacies. Lorem Ipsum is needed for web design, web
pages, website templates and CMS.
Japanese Lorem ipsum, variant 1
Japanese greeking text in variant 1 is based on the kanji
frequency count at tidraso.co.uk and includes about 50% kanji,
25% hiragana, 20% katakana and 5% roman numerals and
punctuation. Katakana and hiragana cluster in strings between
1 to 4 chars at random points in each paragraph. Hiragana
occurs more often at the end of sentences, rather in clumps of
1 to 4 chars rather than just single chars. Katakana is very
unlikely to appear as a single character in Japanese text, but
hiragana could. Exclamation and question marks are 'double-
byte', not standard ascii ones.
Japanese Lorem Ipsum, variant 2
This version is adapted from an algorithm by Chris Moore,
corrected for some punctuation issues.
Japanese Lorem Ipsum, variant 3
This is based on Jugemu, a Japanese folktale with a humorous
repetition of a ridiculously long name. It is often used in
training sessions for Rakugo entertainers.
Russian (Cyrillic), Greek, Armenian Lorem Ipsum
All of the above are transliterations of the classic Lorem
ipsum, letter by letter or its closest approximation.
Lorem Ipsum dummy text based on artificial languages
This applies to Esperanto, Interlingua, Quenya, Slovio, Sona,
Tokipona, Volapük. As hardly anyone actually speaks them
their use should be innocuous. The dictionaries are based on
the coresponding Wikipedia articles. l33tspeak is a mildly
humorous alternative alphabet and used mostly on the Internet.
Randomized dummy text
by this text-generator is suitable for greeking, typesetting,
layouts for websites, and WYSIWYG Web development,
either Lorem Ipsum style or in other languages/charsets. We
provide information on Lorem Ipsum, aka. Lipsum, its
application and etymology, whether for print, typesetting or
web design, placeholders, and copyfitting text for desktop
publishing.
Typographic filler text generators are available for these
languages:

Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Chinese, Esperanto, Greek, Hebre
w, Hindi, Interlingua, Japanese (1), Japanese (2), Japanese
(Jugemu), Korean (1), Korean
(2), L33tspeak, Latin, Letzebuergesch, Morsecode, Quenya, Rus
sian, Slovio, Sona, Tokipona, Volapük
Information

 Lorem Ipsum: Usage, Common
examples, Translation, Variants and technical information
 Essay: Lorem Ipsum--when, and when not to use it
 Plugins:
 Content management systems
(CMS): Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, Google
Docs, Drupal
 Editors: Notepad++, Sublime Text, Office suites
Lorem Ipsum: usage
Lorem ipsum is a pseudo-Latin text used in web design,
typography, layout, and printing in place of English to
emphasise design elements over content. It's also called
placeholder (or filler) text. It's a convenient tool for mock-ups.
It helps to outline the visual elements of a document or
presentation, eg typography, font, or layout. Lorem ipsum is
mostly a part of a Latin text by the classical author and
philosopher Cicero. Its words and letters have been changed
by addition or removal, so to deliberately render its content
nonsensical; it's not genuine, correct, or comprehensible Latin
anymore. While lorem ipsum's still resembles classical Latin,
it actually has no meaning whatsoever. As Cicero's text doesn't
contain the letters K, W, or Z, alien to latin, these, and others
are often inserted randomly to mimic the typographic
appearence of European languages, as are digraphs not to be
found in the original.
In a professional context it often happens that private or
corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented
with the actual content still not being ready. Think of a news
blog that's filled with content hourly on the day of going live.
However, reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible
content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or the
internet. The are likely to focus on the text, disregarding the
layout and its elements. Besides, random text risks to be
unintendedly humorous or offensive, an unacceptable risk in
corporate environments. Lorem ipsum and its many variants
have been employed since the early 1960ies, and quite likely
since the sixteenth century.
Lorem Ipsum: common examples
Most of its text is made up from sections 1.10.32–3 of Cicero's
De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Boundaries of Goods
and Evils; finibus may also be translated as purposes). Neque
porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet,
consectetur, adipisci velit is the first known version ("Neither
is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus
wants to obtain it"). It was found by Richard McClintock, a
philologist, director of publications at Hampden-Sydney
College in Virginia; he searched for citings of consectetur in
classical Latin literature, a term of remarkably low frequency
in that literary corpus.
Cicero famously orated against his political opponent Lucius
Sergius Catilina. Occasionally the first Oration against Catiline
is taken for type specimens: Quo usque tandem abutere,
Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos
eludet? (How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience?
And for how long will that madness of yours mock us?)
Cicero's version of Liber Primus (first Book), sections
1.10.32–3 (fragments included in most Lorem Ipsum variants
in red):
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 exercitationem 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?
Lorem Ipsum: translation
The Latin scholar H. Rackham translated the above in 1914:
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of
denouncing 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 happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids
pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who
do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter
consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there
anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself,
because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances 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 find fault with a man who chooses to
enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences,
or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
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 belongs to those who fail in their duty
through weakness of will, which is the same as saying 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 untrammelled and when nothing prevents 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 pleasures have to be repudiated and
annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in
these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures
to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to
avoid worse pains.
Lorem Ipsum: variants and technical information
In 1985 Aldus Corporation launched its first desktop
publishing program Aldus PageMaker for Apple Macintosh
computers, released in 1987 for PCs running Windows 1.0.
Both contained the variant lorem ipsum most common today.
Laura Perry, then art director with Aldus, modified prior
versions of Lorem Ipsum text from typographical specimens;
in the 1960s and 1970s it appeared often in lettering catalogs
by Letraset. Anecdotal evidence has it that Letraset
used Lorem ipsum already from 1970 onwards, eg. for grids
(page layouts) for ad agencies. Many early desktop publishing
programs, eg. Adobe PageMaker, used it to create template.
Most text editors like MS Word or Lotus Notes generate
random lorem text when needed, either as pre-installed
module or plug-in to be added. Word selection or sequence
don't necessarily match the original, which is intended to add
variety. Presentation software like Keynote or Pages use it as a
samples for screenplay layout. Content management software
as Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, WordPress, or
Movable Type offer Lorem Ipsum plug-ins with the same
functionality.