Bacon Ipsum
Placeholder text stuffed with every cut of meat imaginable
About Bacon Ipsum
Bacon ipsum swaps the usual Latin for cuts of meat, and it exists for a genuinely practical reason: clients read it. Hand someone a mockup filled with "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" and their eyes slide straight past it. Hand them one that opens with "bacon ipsum dolor amet short ribs" and they notice the text is placeholder, ask about the real copy, and you get the conversation you actually wanted to have.
That makes it a useful tool in client presentations specifically. Latin placeholder can read as finished text to someone unfamiliar with the convention, which is how projects end up shipping with lorem ipsum still in the footer. Meat-themed filler is impossible to mistake for real content, so it fails loudly rather than quietly.
The trade-off is that word lengths here are not distributed like ordinary English prose. Cuts of meat skew short and punchy — "chuck", "ribs", "loin" — so a paragraph of bacon ipsum runs slightly denser than the same paragraph of real copy would. For fine typographic work, generate standard lorem ipsum instead; for anything you are showing to a human who needs to understand it is a draft, this is the better choice.
Frequently asked questions
What is bacon ipsum?
Bacon ipsum is placeholder text built from cuts of meat rather than scrambled Latin. It serves the same purpose as lorem ipsum — filling a layout so you can judge the design without reading the words — but is obviously fake, which makes it useful when showing drafts to clients.
Is bacon ipsum free to use?
Yes. The generated text is not copyrighted and needs no attribution. Use it in client mockups, commercial templates, prototypes or anything else, then replace it with real copy before you launch.
When should I use bacon ipsum instead of lorem ipsum?
Use bacon ipsum when a human will look at the mockup and needs to understand the text is temporary — client reviews, stakeholder presentations, internal drafts. Use standard lorem ipsum when you are doing detailed typographic work, because its letter distribution more closely matches ordinary prose.