Lorem ipsum generator
Generate placeholder text by paragraphs, sentences or words. Runs in your browser.
Runs 100% in your browserHow to generate lorem ipsum
- Choose amount & unit. Pick paragraphs, sentences or words and how many.
- Generate. Placeholder text appears instantly; regenerate for variety.
- Copy. Copy the text into your design or template.
About placeholder text
Designers reach for lorem ipsum so a layout can be reviewed for typography, spacing and hierarchy before the real copy exists — its nonsense Latin avoids the distraction of readable content. This generator gives you exactly as much as you need, in plain text or HTML paragraphs.
Where it comes from
The text isn't truly random: it derives from a passage of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum (45 BC), garbled by typesetters since the 1500s. Because the word lengths and rhythm resemble real Latin prose, a block of it reads as natural body text from a distance — exactly what you want when judging a layout rather than the words.
When not to use it
Keep placeholder text out of anything shipped. Lorem ipsum left on a live page hurts SEO (search engines see meaningless content), confuses screen-reader users, and occasionally goes out in a real email or print run. Use it to design, then replace every word before launch.
How much to generate
Match the amount to what you're testing. To check a heading and a paragraph, a few sentences are enough; to see how a blog template breathes, generate several full paragraphs; to stress-test a table cell or a button label, drop to a handful of words. Generating realistic lengths matters more than the exact count — a layout that only looks good with one perfect sentence will fall apart on real content, so fill it the way the finished page will be filled, then regenerate a few times to see how the design holds up across different word counts. When you need other kinds of filler, the random word generator and random name generator produce single words and names for form mockups and seed data.
Frequently asked questions
- Lorem ipsum is scrambled, Latin-like placeholder text used in design and publishing to fill a layout so it can be judged on its visual design rather than its words. It looks like real prose from a distance but means nothing, so it doesn't distract a reviewer.
- Two reasons. Real, readable copy pulls people into reading and critiquing the words instead of the design; and final copy usually isn't ready when the layout is. Lorem ipsum mimics the length, rhythm and word-distribution of real language, so type, spacing and hierarchy can be evaluated honestly before a single sentence is written.
- Repeated or random keyboard mash creates unnatural patterns — identical word lengths, no sentence rhythm — that make a layout look better or worse than it will with real content. Lorem ipsum's varied word and sentence lengths approximate genuine text, which is the whole point of a realistic dummy.
- Yes — choose paragraphs, sentences or words, set the count, and optionally start with the classic "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…" opening.
- Toggle "Wrap in
tags" to get HTML-ready output you can paste straight into a template or mockup.
- Only if it ships. Placeholder text left on a live page gives search engines meaningless content to index and can read as low-quality or unfinished, so always replace every word before launch. As a design-time tool it has no SEO effect at all.
- Yes — entirely in your browser, with no request to a server.