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.
- 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.
- It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures.
- It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.
- There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form.
“You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”