lorem ipsum

Also known as lipsum

type of placeholder text

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Lorem ipsum is dummy text used by designers and publishers as a placeholder when creating layouts and designs before the actual content is ready. It's useful because it allows people to see how a finished product will look without waiting for the real text to be written.

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Using Lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a webpage design proposal An example of the Lorem ipsum placeholder text on a Letraset sample sheet. Date unknown, possibly 1970s.

Lorem ipsum (/ˌlɔː.rəm ˈɪp.səm/ LOR-əm IP-səm) is a dummy or placeholder text commonly used in graphic design, publishing, and web development. It is typically a corrupted version of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC text by the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper Latin. The first two words are the truncation of dolorem ipsum ("pain itself"). Lorem ipsum's purpose is to permit a page layout to be designed, independently of the copy that will subsequently populate it, or to demonstrate various fonts of a typeface without meaningful text that could be distracting.