Lorem Ipsum Generator

Lorem ipsum is scrambled Latin used as placeholder text in printing, publishing, and design. Because it reads as nonsense, it lets designers and clients focus on layout, spacing, and typography without being distracted by the meaning of the words. It fills the space where real content will eventually go.

Lorem ipsum comes from De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the Ends of Good and Evil"), a work on ethics written by Cicero in 45 BC. The original passage contains the words "dolorem ipsum", meaning "pain itself", and "lorem" is "dolorem" with its first syllable dropped. The words were later shortened, rearranged, and padded with invented ones, so lorem ipsum does not translate as a sentence: some words are Latin, but together they have no meaning.

It became widespread in the 1960s, when Letraset printed it on its dry transfer lettering sheets, and spread further with desktop publishing software in the 1980s, which included it as sample text.

Placeholder text lets you build and review a layout before the final copy is written. It keeps the focus on visual design, gives a realistic sense of how much space content will take up, and avoids the awkward gaps that appear when a mockup is left empty. When the real text arrives, you swap it in.

Enter the amount in the Amount field, then choose paragraphs, sentences, words, list items, or characters in the Generate dropdown. The output updates instantly, and you can copy it with one click or download it as a text file. If you need to reshuffle without changing the settings, press the Generate button below the text.

Characters gives exactly that many characters, spaces and punctuation included, ending on a whole word and a period: the last few words are chosen by length so nothing is cut in half. Only a count of one or two characters, too short for a word, is cut from "Lorem". The count is of the text itself, not of any HTML tags or headings around it.

Yes. Set Format to HTML to get paragraphs in <p> tags and list items in a <ul> list, or to Markdown to get paragraphs separated by blank lines and list items starting with a hyphen. Turn on Add headings to put an <h2> (## in Markdown) above each paragraph and above a list. The output shows the markup itself, and that is what Copy and Download give you, ready to paste into a template or a file.

No. Lorem ipsum is only meant for the design stage and should always be replaced with real content before a page goes live. Leftover placeholder text on a published page looks unfinished and can confuse readers. Once your copy is ready, you can tidy it up with tools like our sentence case converter or word frequency counter.