I add my contribution to that of the companions: First words of a Latin text used since the sixteenth century as a test or draft in graphic design to visualize the final format to be edited. Lorem does not exist as a meaningful word. The word is dolorem, which is cut off. It is a fragment of Cicero's moral treatise De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Limits of Good and Evil). . . . Neque porro quisquam est , qui ( DO ) LOREM IPSUM quia dolor sit , amet , consectetur , adipisci velit . . .
It is the restlessness of a text that is used in graphics, design, layout of books to fill pages with a content as a draft, to appreciate the distribution, typography, spacing of the content. It is created with Latin paragraphs cut out of Cicero's de finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the limits of good and evil") combined in a meaningless way. See dolorem ipsum .
