Lorem Ipsum Dolor Filler Text
Every time I send a design proprosal, a normal response is "what does lorem ipsum dolor mean?"
Most often a client must see full page designs of a proposal site. Knowing that it is inevitably going to change, designers like myself will not spend 10 hours "slicing and dicing" a design into usable HTML until the design is finalized.
What does it mean? It is filler text that has been used since the 1500s*. Using this filler text is a technique for designers to indicate it will be changed during final development.
For you designers here's three paragraphs of filler text. Copy & paste as you wish and have a quick chuckle everytime you get the response "what doe lorem ipsum mean?":
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi vel augue. Fusce imperdiet pretium magna. Morbi id dolor porta augue posuere mattis. Proin justo. Vestibulum accumsan, libero sit amet tincidunt tempor, arcu sapien posuere mauris, quis lacinia sem lacus eu eros. Pellentesque venenatis neque tempor felis. Aenean porttitor. Ut nibh est, tincidunt at, congue eu, lacinia quis, eros. Nulla viverra odio in orci. Fusce commodo. Aliquam consectetuer. Duis tempor venenatis nulla. Nulla lobortis dui. Integer sed lectus eu sapien tempus vestibulum. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos.
Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque pulvinar, risus eu volutpat condimentum, neque tortor sagittis dui, vel rutrum dolor massa vitae purus. Vivamus augue tellus, placerat ac, rutrum id, sollicitudin nec, justo. Aenean ut sapien sit amet justo commodo mattis. Proin justo ante, dignissim id, imperdiet et, venenatis ut, erat. In nec nisi et sapien egestas dictum. Mauris mattis. Nulla mattis dapibus ligula. Aenean pede quam, luctus in, egestas eu, luctus sed, pede. Pellentesque accumsan, lectus a malesuada feugiat, massa ligula rhoncus lorem, et vestibulum dolor lacus vel tortor. Maecenas ultrices. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Quisque ante erat, vehicula sagittis, convallis quis, auctor id, odio. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.
Ut quis erat in tellus dictum elementum. Nunc eros. Nullam libero lectus, venenatis at, varius at, pretium id, purus. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Nunc pretium erat vel tellus. Mauris quam. Morbi accumsan felis ac lacus. Proin faucibus dictum mauris. Vestibulum ut purus. Fusce lobortis lorem vehicula ipsum. Proin lacus massa, ullamcorper et, volutpat ut, pellentesque ut, diam.
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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 has been used since the 1500s. 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.