Generate Random Text Using the Lorem Ipsum Algorithm

Generate Lorem Ipsum placeholder text for use in your graphic, print, and web layouts, and discover plugins for your favorite writing, design, and blogging tools. Explore the origins, history, and meaning of the famous passage, and learn how Lorem Ipsum went from scrambled Latin passage to ubiquitous dummy text.

The idea behind lorem ipsum was to provide filler text that could be written in a certain way to exhibit graphic components in texts without the requirement for formal copy. Using Lorem Ipsum gives designers greater freedom throughout the design and production processes since they may build layouts and the shape of the content before it has been generated.

It is generally accepted that Cicero's work De Finibus bonorum et malorum from the first century BC is where the history of Lorem Ipsum first appears. On the Ends of Good and Evil is a philosophical essay that was divided into five volumes. The first book Liber Primus and its topic of hedonism served as the foundation for the Lorem Ipsum that we know today. However, some terms had been changed, added, and omitted to make the Latin illegible and unsuitable. The exact moment the text adopted its current, conventional form is unknown. However, the 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition of the De Finibus has allusions to the word "lorem ipsum" in sections 32 and 33.

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