About Lorem Ipsum

What's Lorem Ipsum

Simply put, Lorem Ipsum is a placeholder text. It's considered the industry standard for when a designer needs to throw some words on a page, poster, pamphlet or whatever other creation they are working on, but said designer does not yet have the final text ready.

In other words, if someone needs words on a page but they don't want to bother with writing something out, they will copy paste in some Lorem Ipsum text.

Yes, but why the word Lorem Ipsum, is it latin, what does it mean? It's not exactly latin, it is in fact jumbled latin - with a few twists thrown in. The text comes from parts of a book called De finibus bonorum et malorum by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, politician and philosopher, written in 45 BCE. The famous words, Lorem Ipsum appear in this passage: Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, which legend has it translates to There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.

So Lorem Ipsum is made by taking the words from Cicero's novel, jumbling the text around, changing some words completely with nonsense words, and presto, you have meaningless sentences that mimic the look of real text.

Who Started It

Apparently, the origins of using Lorem Ipsum as placeholder text goes back to the 1500s. An unknown printer used Cicero's text in a type specimen book they were creating. Fascinatingly, this decision some 500 years ago sparked the convention of using Lorem Ipsum in design and web mockups that we use today.

Why Make It Vegan Though

There are lots of different flavours of Lorem Ipsum out there on the internets. Meaning you can find nonsense paragraphs of text for placeholder purposes based on just about any topic. Some of my favs range from Cupcake Ipsum to Riker Ipsum (yeah that's right, from Star Trek), all the way to Cat Ipsum ^-^. Do we really need a Vegan Ipsum? Don't be ridiculous, of course we do! Veggies are tasty little bastards. Plus you know, you get to see your website or mockup full of fresh bite sized bursts of deliciousness. Like Overflowing picnic berries or Black bean chili dip avocado dressing drizzle and mushroom risotto dark and stormy coconut rice. What in the world is that, I dunno but I want some.

Placeholder Text in Plain or HTML

Sometimes you need more than just plain old placeholder text. You might be a web developer who needs to test your stylesheet with some example HTML. We got you covered. Toggle between the text and HTML tabs to either generate plain old vanilla text or HTML with titles and anchor links.

Ready to get started? Fresh veggies this way:

Vegan Ipsum Me

Quotes

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

Pino Caruso

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we’d all be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Nothing will benefit health or increase chances of survival on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Leonardo Da Vinci

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Edison

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men.

Alice Walker

We all love animals. Why do we call some pets and others dinner?

K.D. Lang

Wouldn’t this [habit of eating animals] hinder us in achieving happiness?

Socrates

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn’t able to see a difference.

Kristen Bell

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

I love animals. All animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.

Peter Dinklage

The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Gandhi

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

Margi Clarke

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo Da Vinci