Have you ever wondered, what
Lorem Ipsum Dolor*
actually means...?

*Lorem Ipsum is a dummy or placeholder text, which is often used in laying out print, infographics, or web design.

You might ask yourself:
"is it real Latin...?"
Well, close enough, but it is actually Gibberish.

Although the text is in Latin, it does not have any intelligible meaning. It's merely a generic text used to hold a place in a file until the actual text or visuals are created to replace it.

Brief History of Lorem Ipsum:

The term Lorem Ipsum is derived from the Latin term Dolorem Ipsum which means "pain itself". The text has been in use for a very long time and its history spans for over two millennia. Its origins were discovered by Richard McClintock, a Latin Scholar from Hampden-Sydney College. According to his research, Lorem Ipsum dates back to 45 BC, from Classical Latin literature. The words in the text originated from the book De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (The ends of Good and Evil), written by the ancient Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. The placeholder text was taken from the first book's discourse on hedonism.

But how did the great work of Cicero ultimately become a filler text?

According to McClintock, it may have just been a happy coincidence. He theorized that a typesetter, who was required to make a type specimen book, used the text as a way to demonstrate different fonts. And seeing as the text should be insensible so as not to distract from the graphical features, the typesetter scrambled the words. With Cicero's work as one of the most published works during that time, the typesetter would most likely have used an excerpt from Cicero's books. Due to this strange coincidence, the garbled words of a legendary rhetorician has survived for over four centuries.