Content New Department "Lorem ipsum" itself doesn't have a clear meaning; it's a meaningless placeholder text used in graphic design and publishing to fill space and demonstrate layouts, fonts, and typography before actual content is available. The phrase comes from a corrupted Latin text by Cicero, with the first words a truncation of "dolorem ipsum," meaning "pain itself". The text was popularized by Letraset in the 1960s and used in desktop publishing software in the 1980s