What is lorem ipsum?
Scrambled Latin that designers and developers use to fill a layout before the real words are written and ready.
Lorem Ipsum Generator
Generate lorem ipsum placeholder text by paragraphs, words or characters, as plain text, HTML or Markdown, ready to paste.
Your lorem ipsum
5 paragraphs, 288 words, 2,148 characters
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Lobortis officia proident metus porttitor ultrices. Laborum etiam gravida aliquet nisi non accumsan amet, dictum pharetra. Morbi dolor rutrum volutpat ultrices accumsan netus nisi blandit nisi nullam risus ex. Labore netus anim aliquam senectus irure hendrerit diam, labore aliqua fugiat suspendisse.
Excepteur enim officia vitae, aliquam rutrum lobortis, curabitur sapien mauris mollis leo. Mattis luctus dui non senectus diam laoreet consectetur anim labore, elit et. Lacus ultrices ullamcorper, nisl consectetur lorem, nam malesuada minim laboris proin netus lectus risus cillum. Nunc lacus sit, condimentum nibh elementum veniam dictum felis maecenas consectetur, dolor quisque, luctus dictum.
Tempor tellus placerat, irure neque eget, dignissim tincidunt pulvinar mattis sed cras. Sociis id lobortis varius commodo purus est. Officia ad ullamcorper, vitae laoreet tincidunt metus posuere id praesent nisi porttitor, non, aliquam senectus. Consequat quisque senectus at irure, elementum natoque cras, sodales ad molestie sodales. Habitant accumsan non vehicula dolore per suspendisse, convallis justo parturient fames donec leo fugiat. Id placerat phasellus nisi sapien, habitant culpa feugiat, proin, condimentum quam quisque.
Pharetra aliquet posuere condimentum augue tristique nunc velit integer dictum diam. Pretium adipiscing eget, condimentum lorem vestibulum, netus, lectus ligula scelerisque quisque sagittis fames. Aliquet aute facilisis laboris laborum porta ante. Praesent phasellus laboris aute, eleifend ad euismod lectus ullamco amet malesuada urna. Rhoncus lacinia feugiat, aliquam molestie, nascetur natoque erat lectus pretium sit orci malesuada feugiat a. Tellus pharetra officia varius porttitor lacinia aliquet.
Porta rhoncus iaculis in libero est. Deserunt aute feugiat habitant, purus ex imperdiet augue elementum quam, praesent feugiat. Etiam lacus pretium dignissim, dolore tellus interdum tempor natoque lorem veniam. Vestibulum enim morbi sollicitudin integer justo suscipit sed mollis per. Sagittis velit lobortis tincidunt vestibulum, luctus orci eu sed.
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Text
Lorem ipsumEnglishClassic
Scrambled Latin, the usual filler for layouts.
How many
Up to 500Count in
ParagraphsSentencesWordsCharacters
Paragraph length
ShortMediumLong
Four to six sentences each.
Format
TextHTMLMarkdown
Paragraphs split by a blank line.
The first sentence is the familiar Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, and every word after it is shuffled fresh each time you regenerate.
Free, with no sign-up and no limit. The text is made on your device, so the page keeps working offline once it has loaded.
- Paragraphs, sentences, words or characters
- Plain text, HTML or Markdown
- Latin, English or Cicero's original
How to generate lorem ipsum
Get exactly as much dummy text as your layout needs in three steps, then paste it in.
Generate lorem ipsum
Five paragraphs are ready when the page opens. Type a number and count it in paragraphs, words or characters.
Choose text or HTML
Keep plain text, or pick HTML for <p> tags or Markdown for docs. Add headings and lists to test a page of styles.
Copy and paste it
Press Copy and paste it into Figma, Word or your code. Regenerate shuffles the words; Download saves it as a file.
Lorem ipsum meaning and origin
Lorem ipsum means nothing, and that is the point. It is scrambled Latin from De finibus bonorum et malorum, a book on ethics Cicero wrote in 45 BC. Even the first word is broken: lorem is what is left of dolorem, so dolorem ipsum, pain itself, lost its first syllable.
Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar, traced the filler to sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of that book by hunting old texts for the rare word consectetur. Typesetters had cut, swapped and padded the words, and Letraset sheets of the 1960s carried the result into design studios.
To read what Cicero really wrote, set Text to Classic. It shows the standard Lorem ipsum passage, the two Latin sections it came from and H. Rackham's 1914 English translation, which opens with a man explaining why no one loves pain for its own sake.
Why designers use placeholder text
Placeholder text lets a layout be judged before the real words exist. Lorem ipsum mixes short and long words much like English, so a column of it has the shape of real copy, and since nobody reads it, people look at the type, spacing and line length instead.
English filler text is the better pick when the words are part of the test: a product card, a sign-up form, a menu a client has to read through. Readable sentences show whether a title fits on two lines or a description runs long, and the English setting writes them for you.
The risk is shipping it. Lorem ipsum has slipped onto live websites and into print many times, so search a finished file for lorem before it goes out. Writing rough real text early helps too, as it catches layouts that only look right when filled with dummy words.
Dummy text generator options
Exact character counts
Ask for 500 characters or 100 words and get exactly that, ending on a full stop, for a fixed box.
Lorem ipsum HTML
Wrap each paragraph in <p> tags or write Markdown, with headings, lists and bold words when needed.
English dummy text
Readable English sentences built from common words, for mockups where people have to read the copy.
Starts with Lorem ipsum
The first sentence is the classic Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet line. Switch it off for a random start.
Short or long paragraphs
Lorem ipsum paragraphs of two to nine sentences, to suit a small card, a blog post or an article.
The full original text
The standard passage and the Cicero Latin it came from, with H. Rackham's 1914 English translation.
Made in your browser, kept nowhere
Every word is put together by code running in this tab, so nothing you make is sent or stored.
Processing
The text is made on this page and never sent to a server. Once loaded, the generator works offline.
Storage
Only your settings stay in this browser, so a refresh keeps them. The generated text is never saved.
Account
No sign-up and no cap on how much you make: 500 paragraphs at a time, as often as a test needs them.
Lorem ipsum questions
What does lorem ipsum mean?
Nothing as written. It comes from dolorem ipsum, pain itself, in a book by Cicero, but its words were cut and shuffled.
What language is lorem ipsum?
Latin, though not correct Latin. Words were cut, swapped and made up, so a Latin reader sees familiar parts but no sense.
How do I get lorem ipsum in Word?
Type =lorem() on a new line and press Enter. =lorem(2,5) gives 2 paragraphs of 5 lines. Type =rand() for English text.
What is placeholder text?
Any stand-in text that shows where real words will go: lorem ipsum in a mockup, or the grey hint in an empty form box.
Why is lorem ipsum used?
It has the look of real text, with words of mixed lengths, but says nothing, so people judge the design and not the words.
How do I translate lorem ipsum to English?
It has no real translation. Set Text to Classic to read Cicero's original Latin beside Rackham's 1914 English version.
What can I use instead of lorem ipsum?
Readable English filler, a rough draft of the real copy or sample data from your app. Set Text to English for the first.
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