Lorem ipsum, or lipsum's it is sometimes known,
+ is dummy text used in laying out print, graphic or web designs.
+ The passage is attributed to an unknown typesetter in the 15th
+ century who is thought to have scrambled parts of Cicero's
+ De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum for use in a type specimen book.
+ It usually begins with:
Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born
+ as a nonsense text. “It's not Latin, though it looks like it,
+ and it actually says nothing,” Before & After magazine answered a curious reader,
+ “Its words loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English,
+ which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.”
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DIGITAL IPSUM
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+ The decade that brought us Star Trek and Doctor Who also resurrected Cicero—or
+ at least what used to be Cicero—in an attempt to make the days before computerized design
+ a little less painstaking.
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+The French lettering company Letraset manufactured a set of dry-transfer sheets which included
+the lorem ipsum filler text in a variety of fonts, sizes, and layouts.
+These sheets of lettering could be rubbed on anywhere and were quickly adopted by graphic artists,
+printers, architects, and advertisers for their professional look and ease of use.
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