The short answer is that lorem ipsum text doesn’t actually “say” anything meaningful. It’s deliberately scrambled Latin that doesn’t form coherent sentences. While it comes from Cicero’s “De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum,” the text has been modified so extensively that it’s nonsensical.
Printers in the 1500s scrambled the words from Cicero’s “De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” after mixing the words in each sentence. The familiar “lorem ipsum dolor sit amet” text emerged when 16th-century printers adapted Cicero’s original work, beginning with the phrase “dolor sit amet consectetur.” They abbreviated “dolorem” (meaning “pain”) to “lorem,” which carries no…
hen you land on a sample web page or open an email template and see content beginning with “lorem ipsum,” the page creator placed that apparent gibberish there on purpose. Page layouts look better with something in each section. Web page designers, content writers, and layout artists use lorem ipsum, also known as placeholder copy, to…