Placeholder text
Placeholder text by words, sentences or paragraphs - as much as your layout needs.
Runs locally in your browser. Nothing you generate is ever sent to a server.
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Choose words, sentences or paragraphs, set how much you need, and press Generate. The text is scrambled Latin, which is the point: it has the texture and rhythm of real writing without being readable.
Fill a mockup with readable English and everyone in the review meeting starts editing the copy. Fill it with lorem ipsum and they look at the layout, which is what you asked them to look at. The nonsense is doing real work, not being lazy.
The text descends from a passage in Cicero's writing on ethics, scrambled and mangled by printers from the 1500s onwards as they set type specimens. That is why fragments look like real Latin - dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet is a genuine phrase - while the whole thing means nothing.
Match the placeholder to the real content rather than filling space. If a card will hold about twenty words, generate twenty. Padding a design with more text than it will really have hides exactly the problems a mockup is supposed to reveal, and truncation bugs surface late as a result.
Each word is drawn from a fixed Latin vocabulary using your browser's cryptographic random source, then assembled into sentences of eight to eighteen words and paragraphs of three to six sentences. The varying lengths matter: text of uniform length makes a layout look better behaved than it really is.
Scrambled Latin used as placeholder text since the 1500s. Its point is to look like real text without being readable, so people judge the layout rather than the words.
Up to 50 paragraphs, 100 sentences or 500 words, depending on which unit you choose.
Yes. Switch it on and the text begins with the familiar Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet line, which most designers expect to see.
Because readable text pulls attention to the writing. Anyone reviewing a layout will start editing the copy instead of judging the design, which is exactly what placeholder text exists to prevent.
Not as written. It comes from a passage by Cicero that has been scrambled and altered for centuries, so fragments are recognisable Latin but the whole is nonsense.
No, and it happens more often than you would think. Search for it before you publish - shipped lorem ipsum is one of the most common embarrassments in web work.