Det er et langt etableret faktum, at en læser vil blive distraheret af det læsbare indhold på en side, når man ser på sit layout. Pointen med at bruge Lorem Ipsum er, at den har en mere eller mindre normal fordeling af breve, i modsætning til at bruge 'Indhold her, indhold her', så det ligner læsbar engelsk.

Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary,making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

Det er et langt etableret faktum, at en læser vil blive distraheret af det læsbare indhold på en side, når man ser på sit layout. Pointen med at bruge Lorem Ipsum er, at den har en mere eller mindre normal fordeling af breve, i modsætning til at bruge 'Indhold her, indhold her', så det ligner læsbar engelsk.

Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary,making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.