Lorem Ipsum Generator

Pick what you need in the Generate card, type a number, and placeholder text appears in the box below straight away. You can ask for paragraphs, sentences, an exact number of words, an exact number of characters, a bullet list, or headings with a paragraph under each one. Change any setting and the text is made again; press New text for a fresh mix with the same settings.

Choose classic Lorem ipsum (Latin) or plain English sample copy, pick short, medium or long paragraphs, and get the result as Plain text, HTML tags or Markdown. Then press Copy, press Copy for Word / Docs to paste formatted text into a document, or press Download to save a .txt, .html or .md file. The small line next to the buttons shows live word and character counts, with and without spaces.

This lorem ipsum generator online runs in any modern browser on a phone, tablet or computer. The text is put together on your own device from a built-in word list, so nothing is uploaded and there is nothing to wait for. Your last settings are remembered in this browser, so the next visit starts where you left off.

Many briefs ask for a set length: a 150-word product blurb, a 300-word blog intro, a 1,000-word article. Choose Words, type the number, and you get exactly that many words in one block. The live counter next to the buttons confirms the total, so you can check it at a glance before you copy.

The count is exact because the text is built word by word until it reaches your number, then closed with a full stop. With Lorem ipsum (Latin) and the start option ticked, the first words follow the classic opening line, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit, and the rest are drawn at random from a longer Latin word list. Ask for 5 words and you get the first 5 words of that line.

A lorem ipsum generator with word count is handy when you test a layout against a word limit. A content system might cut a summary at 55 words, a card design might hold 30, and a newsletter block might have room for 120. Fill each box with exactly that many words and you see right away whether the design breaks or the text gets cut off.

The Words option makes one long block with no paragraph breaks. If you want a fixed length spread across several paragraphs, use Paragraphs with Short, Medium or Long and watch the live counter, or generate the words here and add line breaks yourself. To check a finished draft of real text against the same limit, paste it into the Word Counter.

Some fields are limited by characters, not words: a meta description, a short social post, an SMS, a form field with a maximum length, a database column. Choose Characters, type the limit, and the text is cut to exactly that many characters, spaces included. The last character is always a full stop, so the block looks finished rather than chopped in the middle of a word.

Tick count without spaces when a limit counts only visible characters. The tool keeps adding text until the number of non-space characters matches yours, so the total with spaces will be higher. The live line next to the buttons shows both numbers, which makes it easy to confirm the result against the rule you are testing.

A lorem ipsum generator by character count is the quickest way to stress-test a text field. Paste exactly 160 characters into a meta description box, 255 into a database field or 2,000 into a comment form, and you see whether the limit, the counter and the error message behave as they should. Try one character over the limit too, so you know what users see when they type too much.

You can go up to 100,000 characters in one go. That is enough to fill a long text area, test how an editor copes with a very long post, or check how a page handles a huge block of text without paragraph breaks. On an older phone a very large amount can take a moment to appear in the preview.

Choose HTML tags and the result is ready to paste into a web page, a template or a code editor. Paragraphs come wrapped in p tags, headings from Headings + text use h2, and lists use ul with li items, or ol when numbered is ticked. Characters such as < and & are escaped, so the code is safe to drop straight into a file.

Tick Add bold, italic and a link to put a strong word, an em word and a link inside each paragraph that is longer than about a dozen words. The link points to #, so it goes nowhere, but it lets you check link colour, underline and hover styles, and how bold and italic look in your chosen font.

A lorem ipsum generator with HTML tags saves you typing markup around dummy text by hand. That matters most when you are styling a blog template or a rich text area: you need real paragraphs, headings and lists to see margins, line height and list markers, and you need them in the right tags so your CSS applies to them.

The output is a fragment, not a full page: there is no html, head or body element. That is on purpose, because most of the time you paste it inside an existing layout. If you download it as .html and open the file on its own, the browser shows it with its default styles, which is still a quick way to preview the structure.

Markdown is the plain format behind many README files, wikis, note apps, static site builders and chat tools. Choose Markdown and headings start with ##, bullet items with a dash and numbered items with 1., 2., 3. Paragraphs are separated by an empty line, as Markdown expects.

With Add bold, italic and a link ticked, each paragraph gets one word in **bold** and one in *italic*. No link is added in Markdown, because a link with no real address is rarely useful there. Download saves a .md file you can drop into a project folder or open in any Markdown editor.

Use Markdown output to check how a documentation theme styles headings, to fill a sample note, or to test the Markdown preview in an app you are building. If your site turns Markdown into HTML for you, this is often quicker than writing the HTML tags yourself, and the file stays easy to read in a code review.

Plain text is the default and the most flexible format. Paragraphs are separated by an empty line, headings sit on their own line, and list items are one per line with a bullet character or a number in front. There are no tags or symbols to clean up, so you can paste it almost anywhere: a design file, a code string, a spreadsheet cell, a chat message or a plain text field.

The preview box shows plain text the way it will look once styled: paragraphs as paragraphs, headings in bold and lists as real lists. What you copy is the plain version underneath, so a heading becomes an ordinary line when you paste it into a simple text box. If you want headings and lists to keep their formatting in a document, use Copy for Word / Docs instead.

Plain text is also the format the live counts use. Whatever format you pick, the word and character numbers next to the buttons describe the plain text version, which is what a reader would actually see on the finished page.

Long pages are rarely one wall of text. Choose Headings + text and every section is a short heading of two to five words followed by one paragraph. Ask for 4 sections and you get four headings, each with its own paragraph, which looks far more like a real article, help page or landing page than plain paragraphs do.

A lorem ipsum generator with headings is useful for testing heading styles, a table of contents, anchor links and the spacing between sections. Set Paragraph length to Short for a scannable page or Long for an in-depth guide, and switch the format to HTML tags to get h2 and p tags you can paste into a template.

In Plain text, headings sit on their own line and the preview shows them in bold. In HTML they are h2 elements, and in Markdown they start with ##. If you copy with Copy for Word / Docs, the headings usually arrive as real headings, so they can show up in the outline or navigation pane of your document.

Need a different heading level? The output uses h2 because that is the usual level for sections under a page's single main title. Change h2 to h3 with find and replace in your editor if your template needs smaller headings, or mix both levels by hand to test a deeper outline.

Choose Bullet list for short items of about three to eight words, with no full stop at the end, which is how most lists in menus, feature grids and slides look. Tick numbered to switch from bullets to 1, 2, 3. You can make up to 200 items at once.

A lorem ipsum generator with bullet points helps when you design a pricing table, a feature list, a checklist or a slide. The items have different lengths, so you can see how the layout copes when one line wraps and the next does not, and whether the bullets or numbers stay lined up.

In Plain text each item starts with a bullet character (•) or a number and sits on its own line. In HTML tags you get a ul or ol with li items, and in Markdown each item starts with a dash or a number. Copy for Word / Docs pastes a real list, so your document's own list style and indent apply.

Lists are made on their own, without paragraphs around them. If you need a paragraph followed by a list, generate one paragraph and copy it, then switch to Bullet list and copy the items to paste below it. Your settings for each step are kept, so switching back and forth is quick.

Latin dummy text has one big strength: nobody reads it, so people look at the design instead of the words. Sometimes that is the wrong trade. Clients who are not designers may find Latin confusing, a screen reader test needs real words, and a spelling or hyphenation check is pointless in a language your tools do not know.

Choose English and the text is built from plain English words about a small company, its products and the people who use them. It reads like rough marketing copy, but the words are shuffled, so the sentences do not make full sense. That keeps the focus on the layout while still looking like English to anyone who glances at it.

A lorem ipsum generator in English is a good fit for user tests, client presentations, training slides and anything where people might try to read the text. It also shows English word lengths and letter shapes, which differ from Latin, so line breaks and text width look closer to the final copy.

All the other settings work with English too: paragraphs, sentences, exact words or characters, lists, headings and every format. The Start with “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet” option only shows for Latin, since that opening would make no sense in English text.

Designers usually need text before the writers are done. Placeholder text lets you set type, spacing and grids with something that has the rhythm of real writing, so the structure can move forward while the copy is still being drafted.

A lorem ipsum generator for web designers should cover more than paragraphs, and this one does: exact words for cards, exact characters for fields, headings for long pages, lists for feature grids and HTML tags for prototypes. Use them together. For a blog template, make 4 sections with Headings + text in HTML tags, tick Add bold, italic and a link, and you can style a whole article from one paste.

Test the edges, not only the average. Fill a card with one word and with 80 words. Fill a product title with 20 characters and with 120. Fill a menu with 3 list items and with 12. Real content will vary, and placeholder text is the cheapest way to see what happens before it arrives.

Watch the details that dummy text reveals: single short words left alone on the last line of a paragraph, long words that break out of narrow columns, line length on wide screens and the gap between a heading and its paragraph. Latin has many long words, so it is good at finding overflow; switch to English to see a layout with more typical English word lengths.

Placeholder images matter too. If a mockup needs pictures, Photo Collage and Resize Image help you make sample images at the right size, and Color Picker helps you check the colour of text against its background so the dummy text stays easy to read.

Dummy text is at its most useful when you are choosing and tuning type. Set a few paragraphs in the font you are considering and look at the overall colour of the text block: is it too dark, too light, too tight or too loose? Because nobody is reading the words, it is easier to judge the texture of the page.

Line length is the next check. Many designers aim for somewhere around 50 to 75 characters per line in body text, and placeholder paragraphs make it easy to see whether a column is too wide on a desktop screen or too narrow on a phone. Use Characters with a small number, such as 65, to make one line of a known length and compare it against your column.

Then look at line height and paragraph spacing. Long paragraphs show whether the lines feel cramped, and Headings + text shows whether the space above a heading is clearly larger than the space below it, so each heading belongs to the text that follows. Switch between Short and Long paragraphs to see both extremes in the same layout.

Finally, test the less common pieces: bold and italic inside a paragraph, links in body text, numbered lists with ten or more items, and very long words in narrow columns. Tick Add bold, italic and a link with HTML tags, or make a numbered list of 12 items, and you will see these cases in seconds rather than writing them by hand.

Most website builders, blog editors and content systems let you paste text straight into a text block. Copy for Word / Docs usually works best there, because paragraphs, headings and lists arrive as real blocks rather than one long line. If the editor has an HTML or code view, switch the format to HTML tags, press Copy and paste into that view instead.

For editors that accept Markdown, choose Markdown and press Copy. Headings marked with ## and lists marked with dashes are turned into proper headings and lists as soon as you paste or save. This is often the quickest way to fill a sample page with a realistic structure.

When you build a demo site with many sample posts, vary the settings for each post: one with Short paragraphs, one with Long, one with Headings + text and one with a bullet list. Press New text between posts so the previews on a blog index or archive page do not all start with the same words.

Remember to fill the small fields too. An excerpt, a summary or a card description often has its own limit, and Words or Characters gives you an exact amount for each. Leaving those empty can make a demo look broken when the real site would look fine.

Copy for Word / Docs puts the text on your clipboard as formatted rich text, with a plain text copy as a backup. Paste it into Microsoft Word, Google Docs, an email editor or most rich text boxes and paragraphs, headings, bullet lists and numbered lists arrive as real formatting rather than tags or symbols. If you ticked Add bold, italic and a link, those come across too.

It works with any format setting, so you do not need to switch to HTML tags first. If your browser does not support rich copying, the button copies the text in the format you chose instead, so you can still paste it.

Using this lorem ipsum generator for Word documents is handy when you build a report template, a letterhead, a brochure or a form. Generate Headings + text, copy it, and the headings take your document's heading styles, so you can check the outline, the table of contents and the page breaks before the real content is written.

Word also has its own shortcut, shown in the tip under the tool. Type =lorem(3,5) at the start of an empty paragraph and press Enter, and Word inserts 3 paragraphs of 5 sentences of lorem ipsum; =rand(3,5) does the same with English sample sentences. If nothing happens, check that Replace text as you type is turned on in Word's AutoCorrect options. Google Docs has no such shortcut, so copying from this page is the simple route there.

When the template is ready, Word to PDF turns it into a file you can share for review, and PDF to Word brings an existing PDF back into an editable document if you would rather start from a layout you already have.

Placeholder text is just as useful away from the web. For a flyer, brochure, menu or report, paste paragraphs into your layout to see how many words fit in each column, where the page breaks fall and whether the text wraps neatly around images.

For slides, Bullet list gives short items that look like real talking points, and English text is usually the better choice if the deck will be shown to people outside the design team. Keep the number of bullets close to what the final slide will have, so you set a font size that will still work later.

For email newsletters, fill each block with the amount of text it will really carry and check the result on a phone as well as a desktop screen. Narrow columns in email layouts show long words and short lines much more clearly than a wide web page does.

When a print layout is approved, export it so others can review it on any device. A PDF keeps fonts, columns and page breaks exactly where you put them, so reviewers see the same pages you do, placeholder text and all, and can mark up the design rather than the words.

Not sure how much to make? The rough guide below matches common layout pieces to a setting. It is a starting point, not a rule: your own design and audience decide the real lengths.

As a rough idea of size, short paragraphs come out at about 12 to 40 words, medium paragraphs at about 25 to 85 and long paragraphs at about 40 to 140, because each sentence has roughly 6 to 14 words. When you need a firm number, use Words or Characters instead and the total is exact.

It also helps to ask the people writing the final copy how long each part will really be. A quick list of target lengths, such as 8 words for headlines, 30 for card summaries and 300 for each article section, turns into a set of settings you can reuse every time you build or update a template.

Lorem ipsum looks like Latin, and it nearly is. It comes from De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil), a work on ethics by the Roman writer and statesman Cicero, written in 45 BC. One passage talks about people who do not love pain for its own sake, and the words dolorem ipsum, meaning pain itself, are where the familiar opening comes from.

The dummy text is a cut-up of that passage. Words were dropped, shortened and shuffled, and the first syllable of dolorem was lost along the way, leaving lorem ipsum. The result is not proper Latin, so even a Latin reader cannot follow it, which is exactly why it works as filler.

Nobody knows for sure who first scrambled it or when. It is often said to have been used by printers and typesetters for a very long time to show a typeface without distracting readers, but the early history is hard to confirm. What is clearer is that it became widely known in the 20th century through typesetting and lettering sheets, and later through desktop publishing and word processing software, which put it on almost every designer's screen.

Latin scholars have traced the text back to Cicero, which is how we know its source. Today the classic opening, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, is recognised by designers around the world, and the rest of a typical passage is made of Latin words that have been mixed up in the same way.

This page keeps that spirit. The Latin option draws from a list of words found in common lorem ipsum passages and shuffles them into new sentences each time, so you get the familiar look without the same paragraph repeating again and again across your mockups.

Placeholder text is a tool for one stage of a project: when the structure is ready but the words are not. Use it to build wireframes and mockups, to style templates and themes, to test how fields and components handle short and long text, and to show a client the shape of a page before the copy is written.

Real content is better as soon as you can get it. Headlines that matter, buttons, menu labels, error messages and forms should be designed with their real words, because their length and meaning shape the design. A button that says Sign up needs a different layout from one that says Start your 30-day trial today.

Real content also beats dummy text in user testing and in reviews where people need to judge the message, not only the look. If testers cannot read the page, they cannot tell you whether it makes sense. Even rough draft copy, or the English option here, gives better feedback than Latin.

Watch out for placeholder text that goes live by mistake. Before launch, search your site, templates and documents for lorem, ipsum and dolor, and check image alt text, meta descriptions and hidden fields too. Visitors who spot dummy text on a live page are likely to see the site as unfinished.

Mixing both is often the best middle ground: real headings, buttons and navigation with placeholder body text. It shows the true structure of the page while the long-form copy is still being written, and it keeps the conversation focused on what is actually ready.

Lorem ipsum is not the only way to fill a layout. Early wireframes often use grey bars or boxes instead of words, which is quick and keeps everyone focused on structure. The downside is that bars do not wrap, break or vary like real text, so they hide the problems that only appear once words are in place.

Latin dummy text is the next step up. It wraps, hyphenates and varies in length like real writing, but nobody is tempted to edit it, which keeps reviews on the design. English sample copy goes one step further: it looks like the final page and works for user tests, at the cost of people sometimes reading it and commenting on the words.

Draft copy written by the team is the last step before the final text. Even a rough version shows real headline lengths, real button labels and the real amount of detail each section needs. A good rule is to move along this path as soon as you can: bars for the first sketch, lorem ipsum while the structure settles, English text for testing, then real words.

Whichever stage you are at, make the placeholder match the real content in size. A product page that will have a 20-word description should not be designed with three long paragraphs, and a blog template that will carry 1,500-word posts should not be judged with two short ones.

Placeholder text can hide problems that real users would hit. Screen readers try to pronounce Latin as if it were the page's language, so a page marked as English reads lorem ipsum out as strange English words. When you test with a screen reader, switch to English text so you hear something closer to the final result.

Check contrast and size with dummy text in place. Light grey body text on a white background can look elegant in a mockup and still be hard to read, and placeholder copy makes it easy to forget that someone will need to read every word later.

Do not leave lorem ipsum in alt text, form labels, button names or link text, even in a prototype that others will test. Those are the words assistive technology reads aloud, so give them real, short descriptions from the start.

If you do keep Latin on a test page, mark that part of the page as Latin with a lang attribute such as lang="la" on its container. Screen readers that support it can then switch pronunciation, and automatic translation tools are less likely to try to translate the dummy text into nonsense.

Developers need sample text too. Use exact characters to test a validation rule, paragraphs to fill a demo blog in a content system, and Markdown to check a renderer or an editor preview. Words up to 10,000 or characters up to 100,000 are useful for testing how an app handles a very long post, a slow search index or a text area with no height limit.

For seed data, generate a block in Plain text, then split it into the fields you need. If your sample data lives in JSON, the JSON Formatter makes it easy to check and tidy the file after you paste the text in, and the Case Converter fixes titles that need Title Case or Sentence case.

Keep test text out of production. A simple rule is to use placeholder text only in seed files, fixtures and demo accounts, and to search for lorem before every release so nothing slips through into the live product.

Testing input handling is another good use. Paste a 10,000-word block into a form to see whether the server accepts it, whether the page slows down and whether the saved result matches what was sent. Then paste a short block with HTML tags into a field that should only accept plain text, and check that the tags are shown as text or removed rather than run as code.

You can use this lorem ipsum generator free of charge, with no sign-up, no account, no daily limit and no watermark in the text. Make one sentence or a hundred paragraphs as often as you like.

All text is made in your browser with a word list that is part of the page, and the random choices come from your browser's built-in secure random number source. Nothing you generate is sent to a server, so it is just as safe to use on a work laptop as at home.

The only thing kept is your settings, saved in this browser's local storage so the page remembers your choices. Clear your browser data or use a private window and the page starts with the default of 3 medium Latin paragraphs in plain text.

The classic lorem ipsum passage is based on a Latin text that is more than two thousand years old, and the words here are shuffled at random each time. You can use the generated text in drafts, client mockups, themes, templates and other projects without asking anyone.

Once the placeholder text has done its job, a few other tools on FlipMyFormat help with the next steps. Paste your real draft into the Word Counter to check it against the same limits you tested, and use the Case Converter to fix headings in Title Case or Sentence case.

If you are building pages, the QR Code Generator makes a working code for a printed mockup or poster, and Image to PDF turns screenshots of your layouts into one file to send for feedback. When a document template is finished, Word to PDF gives you a version that looks the same on every device.