Lorem Ipsum
Generate professional Lorem Ipsum placeholder text for your projects instantly
What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
Where does it come from?
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32. The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
Where can I get some?
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.
How to use this Lorem Ipsum generator
Start by choosing what you need. Paragraphs are the right choice when you are testing body copy, article templates or anywhere real prose will eventually sit. Words gives you an exact count, which is what you want when a design spec caps a headline or a card description at a specific length. Bytes produces text of a precise byte size, useful for filling a database column or checking that a character-limited field truncates the way you expect. Lists returns discrete items ready to drop into a navigation menu or a bulleted block.
Set the count, then generate. If you need the classic opening, leave Start with “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…” enabled — most clients and reviewers recognise that phrase immediately and read it as intentional placeholder rather than a mistake. Turn it off when you want text that looks less obviously like filler, for instance in a screenshot going into a pitch deck.
The generated text is produced in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and there is no rate limit. Copy it with one click and paste it wherever you need it — Figma, Sketch, Word, an HTML file, a CMS field or a unit test fixture.
Why generate placeholder text in 40+ languages
A layout that holds together in English can break badly once it is translated. German compounds run far longer than their English equivalents and will overflow a fixed-width button. Arabic and Hebrew reverse the reading direction, so an interface built left-to-right needs its whole visual hierarchy mirrored. Chinese and Japanese set denser than Latin script, leaving whitespace that looked balanced suddenly looking empty. Thai has no spaces between words, which changes how a line wraps entirely.
Generating placeholder text in the languages you actually ship to surfaces these problems while they are still cheap to fix — during design, rather than after localisation. Choose a language from the bar at the top of this page and the generator switches together with the interface, including text direction.
Frequently asked questions
How do I generate Lorem Ipsum text?
Choose what you want to generate — paragraphs, words, bytes or lists — set how many you need, then press Generate. The text appears instantly and the Copy button puts it on your clipboard. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing is sent to a server and there is no waiting.
Is this Lorem Ipsum generator free?
Yes, completely free with no account, no sign-up and no usage limits. You can generate as much placeholder text as you need, as often as you like. There is no paid tier and no watermark on the output.
Can I generate Lorem Ipsum in other languages?
Yes. The generator supports more than 40 languages including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Hindi and Japanese-style layouts. Pick a language from the bar at the top of the page and the interface and generated text switch together, which is useful when you are designing for right-to-left scripts or testing how a layout handles longer words.
What is the difference between paragraphs, words, bytes and lists?
Paragraphs give you complete blocks of prose, best for testing body copy and article layouts. Words gives you an exact word count, useful when a design specifies a limit. Bytes produces text of a precise byte length, which matters when you are filling a database column or testing a character-limited field. Lists returns bulleted items for testing list and navigation components.
Can I use the generated text in commercial projects?
Yes. Lorem Ipsum is not copyrighted, so you can use the output in client work, commercial products, templates you sell, and anything else, with no attribution required. Do replace it with real copy before you launch, though — placeholder text left in a live site looks unfinished.
How do I add Lorem Ipsum in Word, Figma or HTML?
In Microsoft Word, type =lorem(3,5) and press Enter to insert 3 paragraphs of 5 lines. In Figma, use a content plugin or paste text generated here directly into a text layer. In HTML, paste the output inside your markup, or use the Lists option to get items ready to drop into a <ul>. Generating here and pasting gives you control over the exact length, which the built-in shortcuts do not.