Lorem ipsum was popularized in the 1960s with Letraset's dry-transfer sheets, and later entered the digital world via Aldus PageMaker.

Lorem ipsum was purposefully designed to have no meaning, but appear like real text, making it the perfect placeholder.

Origins and Discovery. Lorem ipsum began as scrambled, nonsensical Latin derived from Cicero's 1st-century BC text De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.