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 ...

If you design websites, or really anything, you’ve probably used lorem ipsum text to take the place of real content when you’re still working on the design but need to show something to a client.

Have you ever visited a website that’s under construction and seen a jumble of Latin text? Most likely, what you saw was Lorem Ipsum filler text. In the 1980s, the general public became exposed to ...