Lorem Ipsum Generator
Create Lorem Ipsum placeholder text in one click: choose paragraphs, sentences or words and copy it to your design.
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What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum is placeholder text — or "dummy text" — used to fill the place of the real content while a design is being built. It has no coherent meaning.
A Lorem Ipsum generator produces that text instantly. You choose how many paragraphs, sentences or words you need and get a block ready to paste into your mockup.
The whole process happens in your browser, with nothing sent to a server. It is the fastest way to get placeholder text for any document or design.
Why use placeholder text?
Lorem Ipsum is a basic design tool. These are the most frequent use cases.
Web design
Lorem Ipsum fills mockups and prototypes so you can see how a design looks before the real content is ready.
Graphic layout
In editorial design, placeholder text lets you test typefaces, columns and spacing without being distracted by meaning.
Client presentations
Showing a template with Lorem Ipsum keeps the client focused on the design instead of writing the final copy.
To work out how many pages a text takes, use words to pages, or read our blog post length guide.
How to generate Lorem Ipsum step by step
Choose the format
Select whether to generate paragraphs, sentences or words and set the amount you need.
Adjust the options
Decide whether to start with "Lorem ipsum" and whether you want the placeholder text in HTML.
Copy the text
The Lorem Ipsum appears instantly. Copy it to the clipboard and paste it into your design.
The origin of Lorem Ipsum
Although it looks like text invented at random, Lorem Ipsum has classical roots. It comes from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", a work by the Roman philosopher Cicero written in 45 BC.
The current form of the placeholder text became popular in the 16th century, when an unknown printer scrambled a text to make a type specimen book. It has been the industry standard ever since.
The phrase "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" is in fact an altered version of an original line by Cicero, which is why it sounds like Latin without quite being it.
The generator options
Paragraphs, sentences or words
You can generate full blocks of paragraphs, standalone phrases or an exact number of words. Choose the format depending on the gap you need to fill in your mockup.
Start with "Lorem ipsum"
This option makes the text start with the classic phrase "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet". Turn it off if you prefer fully random placeholder text.
HTML format
With the HTML format, each paragraph is wrapped in paragraph tags, ready to paste into a web template. You can then check the length with the character counter.