Lorem ipsum — TypeDrawers https://typedrawers.com/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:27:34 +0000 en Lorem ipsum — TypeDrawers [Do]lorem ipsum https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5599/do-lorem-ipsum Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:01:15 +0000 Type Design Technique & Theory michele casanova 5599@/discussions This video was pointed out to me as interesting because it reconstructs the history of "Lorem ipsum".


"Lorem ipsum" was apparently created in 1966 by James Mosley (1935-2025) from four pages (36, 56, 70, and 118) of this 1914 edition of Cicero's "De finibus bonorum et malorum": https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ufOZBzV878IC/page/36/mode/2up

The text (specially modified to be meaningless and to have a letter frequency similar to English, for example, by reducing the number of Qs) was requested by Letraset to create "dummy text" sheets.

The "Lorem Ipsum" text was then used in Aldus PageMaker 3.0 (1988 ca.) with some changes and the introduction of obvious errors ("nibh", "zzril").

Was all this information already known?

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