Generate placeholder text by paragraph, sentence or word, with control over length, vocabulary, truncation and an optional seed for repeatable output.
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Lorem ipsum is placeholder text. You pour it into a layout so you can judge type size, line length, spacing, and rag before the real copy exists. It looks like Latin but has been scrambled enough that it means nothing, which is the point: it fills the space without anyone stopping to read it.
The generator above produces paragraphs, sentences, or words, 1 to 1,000 at a time.
Typing asdf asdf gives you the wrong texture. Layouts break across lines according to word lengths, and gibberish has the wrong distribution, so your line breaks and rag lie to you. Lorem ipsum's word lengths are close enough to English prose that the layout behaves roughly the way it will with real copy.
Pasting in a real article causes the opposite problem. People read it. The review turns into an argument about the words instead of the type, and copy that happens to read well can paper over a layout that doesn't work.
It's also a shared signal. "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" tells everyone looking at the file that this copy is temporary, with no note in the margin needed.
Descriptive placeholders like "About us intro goes here" beat lorem ipsum in early wireframes, where the question is what goes where rather than how it looks.
Writing the real copy first sits at the other end of the spectrum. The layout then fits the content instead of the content getting squeezed in afterwards. It costs more up front, and it's usually worth it on short, high-stakes pages.
Themed generators such as Hipster Ipsum, Bacon Ipsum, and Cat Ipsum are fun for personal projects, but they're readable English, so they pull attention the same way a real article does.
The pseudo-word option here covers the case where Latin is itself the distraction, either because reviewers read it as a bug or because the design isn't in a Latin idiom.
Whichever you use, strip it before launch. Grepping for "lorem" is a cheap last step before you ship.
The source is real Cicero: the scrambled words come from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (On the Ends of Good and Evil), written in 45 BC. Even the famous first line is a fragment, since "lorem ipsum" is a chopped "dolorem ipsum", meaning "pain itself". The "do" was lost somewhere in the copying.
Printers were doing this long before computers, with scrambled Latin filler going back to the 1500s. It reached desktop publishing through Aldus PageMaker in the 1980s and has been a default ever since.
Not everyone approves. Some designers argue you should never lay out with dummy text, on the grounds that a design which only holds up with well-behaved filler doesn't really hold up.
One caveat on this tool: the output is for mockups and layout testing. Don't use it as real content, real personal data, or anything security-related.
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