If you've spent more than a week in web development or design, you've seen it: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit... Fake Latin text that appears in mockups and prototypes everywhere. But where does it actually come from, what does it mean, and when should you stop using it? Where lorem ipsum comes from Lorem ipsum is derived from a 1st-century BC philosophical work by Cicero: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum ("On the Ends of Good and Evil"). The original Latin reads: "Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." Which translates roughly to: "Nor is there anyone who loves, pursues, or desires pain itself, because it is pain..." The scrambled "lorem ipsum" version has been in use since the 1500s, when a typesetter took the passage, scrambled the text, and used it as placeholder content. In the digital era, Richard McClintock (a Latin scholar at Hampden-Sydney College) confirmed the origin in 1994.…