Lorem ipsum generator

Placeholder text by the paragraph, sentence, word, list item or heading, in Latin or four other vocabularies, and repeatable from a seed.

How to generate lorem ipsum text

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Choose what you need
Paragraphs, sentences, words, list items or headings, and how many.
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Pick a vocabulary and format
Classic Latin or four alternatives, output as plain text, HTML or Markdown.
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Copy or download
One click for the clipboard, one for a file.

The same seed always gives the same text

Placeholder text exists so you can look at a layout, and looking at two layouts is only useful if the text in them is identical. Most generators use the browser's random number source, so every reload gives different copy and two screenshots can never be compared. Here the generator is seeded: leave the seed at zero and a random one is picked and shown to you, or type a seed in and get that exact text back, on any machine and any day. Put the seed in the ticket next to the mock-up and whoever picks it up sees what you saw.

Why five vocabularies rather than one

Classic Latin is the right default: it is what designers expect, its word lengths and letter distribution are close enough to English to look like prose, and being obviously meaningless it stops anyone reading it instead of looking at the layout. It has one weakness: a stakeholder who cannot tell whether the page is finished. Plain English fixes that, technical and food vocabularies make a mock-up feel like the product it is for, and the Russian set exists because Cyrillic is wider than Latin and a layout that fits lorem ipsum can still break on real Russian copy.

Commas, sentence length and why the text looks like prose

Randomly chosen words at a fixed sentence length read as a list, not as text, and a layout tested against a list does not tell you much. Sentence length varies here between the two bounds you set, paragraphs run between three and seven sentences, a comma appears inside about a quarter of sentences, and the same word never lands twice in a row. The result has the rhythm of prose, so line breaks and ragged edges in your layout fall roughly where they would with real copy.

Output that goes straight where you need it

Plain text is for design tools and documents. The HTML option wraps paragraphs in p tags, list items in a proper ul and headings in h2, so it pastes into a template without a second pass. Markdown does the same with blank lines, dashes and hash marks for a README or a CMS field. Choosing the output format changes only the wrapping, not the text, so you can switch between them and compare the same copy in two places.

No file, no upload, no server

This is the one tool here that takes no input file at all: everything comes from the settings on this page. The word lists are small JSON files that ship with the page, generation happens in your browser, and nothing is sent anywhere or stored. It works with the network disconnected.

Frequently asked questions

What is lorem ipsum?

Scrambled Latin taken from a first-century BC text by Cicero, used as placeholder copy since the sixteenth century. It looks like prose without being readable, which is exactly what you want when the point is to look at the layout.

How do I get the same text twice?

Note the seed shown under the result and type it into the seed field. The same seed with the same settings always produces the same text, on any device.

How much can it generate?

Up to 500 paragraphs, sentences, words, list items or headings at once, around 22 000 words, generated instantly.

Can I get HTML or Markdown?

Yes. HTML wraps paragraphs, lists and headings in the right tags; Markdown uses blank lines, dashes and hash marks. The text itself is identical in all three formats.

Why would I want a vocabulary that is not Latin?

Latin is unreadable, which is usually the point but sometimes the problem: a client may not realise the page is unfinished. English, technical and food vocabularies read as real copy, and the Russian one is there because Cyrillic is wider and can break a layout that Latin fits.