Generator for randomized typographic filler text

Standard Lipsum
Other languages/charsets

generate download

HTML Plain text

5 paragraph(s)
1000 word(s) [4500 max.]
Add randomly [!?] marks

Add randomly diacritical marks

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, mea an malis dictas, inani eirmod necessitatibus
vim ne. His cu debet detracto referrentur, lorem ornatus invidunt et sea. Eam
libris urbanitas conclusionemque cu, his semper eleifend explicari in. Pri dico
mollis nominati eu, vix tollit tamquam platonem in.

Vim cibo dignissim cu, ex tale graecis vim. Mei eu simul electram. Duo vidit fugit
ea, qui nobis omnes saperet cu, te sale facete aliquip pro. Vix unum timeam
argumentum ei, his ei minim mundi, ne assum adversarium est. Id mei omnium
scribentur.

         
zh
uk
ru
es
en
de

News

Overview
Lorem Ipsum: Quality typographic filler text for webmasters

The dummy copy at this site is made from a dictionary of 500 words from Cicero's original source and the text fragments
traditionally added. We use a lexical scheme to ensure a grammatically correct look and feel. This avoids repetitions,
unintentional humor, and structures considered non-idiomatic for standard lipsum filler text. This generator doesn't just add
chunks of predefined text with a limited choice of words.

Information
Lorem Ipsum: Usage, Common examples, Translation, Variants and technical information
Essay: Lorem Ipsum--when, and when not to use it
Plugins:
Content management systems (CMS): Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, Google Docs, Drupal
Editors: Notepad++, Sublime Text, Office suites

Lorem Ipsum: usage

Lorem ipsum is a pseudo-Latin text used in web design, typography, layout, and printing in
place of English to emphasise design elements over content. It's also called placeholder (or
filler) text. It's a convenient tool for mock-ups. It helps to outline the visual elements of a
document or presentation, eg typography, font, or layout. Lorem ipsum is mostly a part of a
Latin text by the classical author and philosopher Cicero. Its words and letters have been
changed by addition or removal, so to deliberately render its content nonsensical; it's not
genuine, correct, or comprehensible Latin anymore. While lorem ipsum's still resembles
classical Latin, it actually has no meaning whatsoever. As Cicero's text doesn't contain the
letters K, W, or Z, alien to latin, these, and others are often inserted randomly to mimic the typographic appearence of
European languages, as are digraphs not to be found in the original.

In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented with
the actual content still not being ready. Think of a news blog that's filled with content hourly on the day of going live. However,
reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or the internet. The
are likely to focus on the text, disregarding the layout and its elements. Besides, random text risks to be unintendedly
humorous or offensive, an unacceptable risk in corporate environments. Lorem ipsum and its many variants have been
employed since the early 1960ies, and quite likely since the sixteenth century.

Lorem Ipsum: common examples

Most of its text is made up from sections 1.10.32–3 of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum
(On the Boundaries of Goods and Evils; finibus may also be translated as purposes). Neque porro
quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit is the first
known version ("Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to
obtain it"). It was found by Richard McClintock, a philologist, director of publications at Hampden-
Sydney College in Virginia; he searched for citings of consectetur in classical Latin literature, a
term of remarkably low frequency in that literary corpus.

Cicero famously orated against his political opponent Lucius Sergius Catilina. Occasionally the first Oration against Catiline is
taken for type specimens: Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?
(How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience? And for how long will that madness of yours mock us?)

Cicero's version of Liber Primus (first Book), sections 1.10.32–3 (fragments included in most Lorem Ipsum variants in red):

Sed ut perspiciatis, unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque
laudantium, totam rem aperiam eaque ipsa, quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto
beatae vitae dicta sunt, explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem, quia voluptas sit, aspernatur
aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos, qui ratione voluptatem sequi
nesciunt, neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit amet, consectetur,
adipisci[ng] velit, sed quia non numquam [do] eius modi tempora inci[di]dunt, ut labore et
dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum
exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur?
Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit, qui in ea voluptate velit esse, quam nihil molestiae
consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariatur?

Lorem Ipsum: translation

The Latin scholar H. Rackham translated the above in 1914:

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a
complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of
human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know
how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or
pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can
procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to
obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no
annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the
charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue;
and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking
from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is
untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every
pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur
that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this
principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

Lorem Ipsum: variants and technical information

In 1985 Aldus Corporation launched its first desktop publishing program Aldus PageMaker for
Apple Macintosh computers, released in 1987 for PCs running Windows 1.0. Both contained
the variant lorem ipsum most common today. Laura Perry, then art director with Aldus,
modified prior versions of Lorem Ipsum text from typographical specimens; in the 1960s
and 1970s it appeared often in lettering catalogs by Letraset. Anecdotal evidence has it that
Letraset used Lorem ipsum already from 1970 onwards, eg. for grids (page layouts) for ad
agencies. Many early desktop publishing programs, eg. Adobe PageMaker, used it to create
template.

Most text editors like MS Word or Lotus Notes generate random lorem text when needed, either as pre-installed module or
plug-in to be added. Word selection or sequence don't necessarily match the original, which is intended to add variety.
Presentation software like Keynote or Pages use it as a samples for screenplay layout. Content management software as
Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, WordPress, or Movable Type offer Lorem Ipsum plug-ins with the same functionality.

Contact

Korean: 국민경제의 발전을 위한 중요정책의 수립에 관하여 대통령의 자문에 응하기 위하여 국
민경제자문회의를 둘 수 있다. Greek: Λορεμ ιπσθμ δολορ σιτ αμετ, μει ιδ νοvθμ
φαβελλασ πετεντιθμ vελ νε, ατ νισλ σονετ οπορτερε εθμ. Αλιι δοcτθσ μει ιδ, νο αθτεμ
αθδιρε ιντερεσσετ μελ, δοcενδι cομμθνε οπορτεατ τε cθμ. Japanese Lorem Ipsum:
旅ロ京⻘利セムレ弱改フヨス波府かばぼ意送でぼ調掲察たス⽇⻄重ケアナ住橋ユムミク順待ふか
んぼ⼈奨貯鏡すびそ。

Contact
facebook
 Russian Lorem Ipsum: Лорем ипсум долор сит амет, пер цлита поссит ех, ат мунере фабулас петентиум сит. Иус цу цибо
саперет сцрипсерит, нец виси муциус лабитур ид. Ет хис нонумес нолуиссе дигниссим. Chinese Lorem Ipsum: 側経意責家
方家閉討店暖育田庁載社転線宇。得君新術治温抗添代話考振投員殴大闘北裁。品間識部案代学凰処済準世一戸刻法分。悼測済諏計飯利安凶断理
資沢同岩面文認革。内警格化再薬方久化体教御決数詭芸得筆代。 Indian Lorem Ipsum: पढाए िहं दी रहा प अनुवाद कायलय मु सं था सोफ़तवेर
िनरपे उनका आपके बाटते आशाआपस मु तह उशकी करता। शु आत सं था कुशलता मभटृ अनुवाद गएआप िवशेष सकते प रभािषत लाभा त ित दे कर समजते
िदशामे ा जैसे वणन सं थान िनमाता ुित भाित चुनने उपल बगलूर अथपुण Armeninian Lorem Ipsum: լոռեմ իպսում դոլոռ սիթ ամեթ,
լաբոռե մոդեռաթիուս եթ հաս, պեռ ոմնիս լաթինե դիսպութաթիոնի աթ, վիս ֆեուգաիթ ծիվիբուս եխ. վիվենդում
լաբոռամուս ելաբոռառեթ նամ ին.

Arab Lorem Ipsum: ‫ اﻧﮫ ﻛل‬.‫ ﻗد ﺑﺣﻖ أﺳﺎﺑﯾﻊ اﻟﻌظﻣﻰ واﻋﺗﻼء‬,‫ ﻣﻊ واﯾرﻟﻧدا اﻷوروﺑﯾّون ﻛﺎن‬.‫ اﻟﺛﻘﯾﻠﺔ ﺑﺎل‬،‫ ھو اﻟﻌﺎﻟم‬,،‫ وﺑﺎءت اﻷﻣرﯾﻛﻲ اﻷورﺑﯾﯾن ھو ﺑﮫ‬.‫ﻏﯾﻧﯾﺎ واﺳﺗﻣر اﻟﻌﺻﺑﺔ ﺿرب ﻗد‬
‫وإﻗﺎﻣﺔ اﻟﻣواد‬. Hebrew Lorem Ipsum: ‫ או ניווט‬,‫ גם אחר ליום בשפות‬,‫ אתה דת שונה כלשהו‬.‫ דת דפים מאמרשיחהצפה זאת‬,‫כדי יסוד מונחים מועמדים של‬
‫ אל אינו כלכלה שתי‬,‫ ויש בקלות ואמנות אירועים או‬.‫פולנית לחיבור ארץ‬.

Lorem Ipsum: when, and when not to use it

Do you like Cheese Whiz? Spray tan? Fake eyelashes? That's what is Lorem Ipsum to many—it rubs them the wrong way, all the
way. It's unreal, uncanny, makes you wonder if something is wrong, it seems to seek your attention for all the wrong reasons.
Usually, we prefer the real thing, wine without sulfur based preservatives, real butter, not margarine, and so we'd like our layouts
and designs to be filled with real words, with thoughts that count, information that has value.

The toppings you may chose for that TV dinner pizza slice when you forgot to shop for foods, the paint you may slap on your
face to impress the new boss is your business. But what about your daily bread? Design comps, layouts, wireframes—will your
clients accept that you go about things the facile way? Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain terms that Lorem
Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever. Not so fast, I'd say, there are some redeeming factors in favor of greeking
text, as its use is merely the symptom of a worse problem to take into consideration.

You begin with a text, you sculpt information, you chisel away what's not needed, you come to the point, make things clear, add
value, you're a content person, you like words. Design is no afterthought, far from it, but it comes in a deserved second.
Anyway, you still use Lorem Ipsum and rightly so, as it will always have a place in the web workers toolbox, as things happen,
not always the way you like it, not always in the preferred order. Even if your less into design and more into content strategy
you may find some redeeming value with, wait for it, dummy copy, no less.

Consider this: You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all the approvals, built a tested code base or
had them built, you decided on a content management system, got a license for it or adapted open source software for your
client's needs. Then the question arises: where's the content? Not there yet? That's not so bad, there's dummy copy to the
rescue. But worse, what if the fish doesn't fit in the can, the foot's to big for the boot? Or to small? To short sentences, to many
headings, images too large for the proposed design, or too small, or they fit in but it looks iffy for reasons the folks in the
meeting can't quite tell right now, but they're unhappy, somehow. A client that's unhappy for a reason is a problem, a client
that's unhappy though he or her can't quite put a finger on it is worse.

But. A big but: Lorem Ipsum is not t the root of the problem, it just shows what's going wrong. Chances are there wasn't
collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there wasn't a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required.
It's content strategy gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum wouldn't have helped, won't help now.
It's like saying you're a bad designer, use less bold text, don't use italics in every other paragraph. True enough, but that's not
all that it takes to get things back on track.

So Lorem Ipsum is bad (not necessarily)

There's lot of hate out there for a text that amounts to little more than garbled words in an old language. The villagers are out
there with a vengeance to get that Frankenstein, wielding torches and pitchforks, wanting to tar and feather it at the least,
running it out of town in shame.

One of the villagers, Kristina Halvorson from Adaptive Path, holds steadfastly to the notion that design can’t be tested without
real content:

I’ve heard the argument that “lorem ipsum” is effective in wireframing or design because it helps people focus on the actual
layout, or color scheme, or whatever. What kills me here is that we’re talking about creating a user experience that will (whether
we like it or not) be DRIVEN by words. The entire structure of the page or app flow is FOR THE WORDS.

If that's what you think how bout the other way around? How can you evaluate content without design? No typography, no
colors, no layout, no styles, all those things that convey the important signals that go beyond the mere textual, hierarchies of
information, weight, emphasis, oblique stresses, priorities, all those subtle cues that also have visual and emotional appeal to
the reader. Rigid proponents of content strategy may shun the use of dummy copy but then designers might want to ask them
to provide style sheets with the copy decks they supply that are in tune with the design direction they require.
 Or else, an alternative route: set checkpoints, networks, processes, junctions between content and layout. Depending on the
state of affairs it may be fine to concentrate either on design or content, reversing gears when needed.

Or maybe not. How about this: build in appropriate intersections and checkpoints between design and content. Accept that it’s
sometimes okay to focus just on the content or just on the design.

Luke Wroblewski, currently a Product Director at Google, holds that fake data can break down in real life:

Using dummy content or fake information in the Web design process can result in products with unrealistic assumptions and
potentially serious design flaws. A seemingly elegant design can quickly begin to bloat with unexpected content or break under
the weight of actual activity. Fake data can ensure a nice looking layout but it doesn’t reflect what a living, breathing application
must endure. Real data does.

Websites in professional use templating systems. Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure
that you can show different text, different data using the same template. When it's about controlling hundreds of articles,
product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes, formats, rules for
differing elements things can break, designs agreed upon can have unintended consequences and look much different than
expected.

This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won't fix it. Using test items of real content and data in
designs will help, but there's no guarantee that every oddity will be found and corrected. Do you want to be sure? Then a
prototype or beta site with real content published from the real CMS is needed—but you’re not going that far until you go
through an initial design cycle.

Lorem Ipsum actually is usefull in the design stage as it focuses our attention on places where the content is a dynamic block
coming from the CMS (unlike static content elements that will always stay the same.) Blocks of Lorem Ipsum with a character
count range provide a obvious reminder to check and re-check that the design and the content model match up.

Kyle Fiedler from the Design Informer feels that distracting copy is your fault:

If the copy becomes distracting in the design then you are doing something wrong or they are discussing copy changes. It might
be a bit annoying but you could tell them that that discussion would be best suited for another time. At worst the discussion is at
least working towards the final goal of your site where questions about lorem ipsum don’t.

Summing up, if the copy is diverting attention from the design it’s because it’s not up to task.

Typographers of yore didn't come up with the concept of dummy copy because people thought that content is inconsequential
window dressing, only there to be used by designers who can’t be bothered to read. Lorem Ipsum is needed because words
matter, a lot. Just fill up a page with draft copy about the client’s business and they will actually read it and comment on it.
They will be drawn to it, fiercely. Do it the wrong way and draft copy can derail your design review.

Asking the client to pay no attention Lorem Ipsum isn't hard as it doesn’t make sense in the first place, that will limit any initial
interest soon enough. Try telling a client to ignore draft copy however, and you're up to something you can't win. Whenever
draft copy comes up in a meeting confused questions about it ensue.

Summing up, really:

Lorem Ipsum is a tool that can be useful, used intentionally it may help solve some problems. If you go about content strategy
the wrong way, fix that problem.

Lorem Ipsum plugins

Office suites
1. MS Word: From 2007 onwards typing =lorem(i) or =lorem(i, j) in MS Word creates greeking text--don't forget to hit the
enter key; i and j need to be integers, where i stands for the amount of desired paragraphs and j numbers the sentences
per paragraph. j has a default value of 3 and a maximum set to 6665. >> screenshots

2. Open Office: An extension named Magenta Lorem ipsum generator is available at services.openoffice.org. Once installed, an
icon will be shown in a toolbar below the menu bar, with the option to insert a number of paragraphs, the maximum is set to
25. >> screenshots

3. Libre Office: Magenta Lorem Ipsum Generator 2.0.2, available for LibreOffice 3.3, LibreOffice 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.5.

Lorem Ipsum plugins: content management systems (CMS)

1. Joomla

Dummy Content: an editor button and system plugin (Joomla extension) that sets random dummy copy in articles or in
other content item that have editors like custom HTML modules, category descriptions, or third party content.

Folcomedia - Button Lorem Ipsum: creates a button in the editor to insert a paragraph of "Lorem Ipsum" greeking text.
 Content Fake: a component that allows for easy creation of menu items, quickly creating paragraphs of "Lorem Ipsum" and
pictures with custom sizes.

Overview of all Joomla plugins for Lorem Ipsum generation.

2. Wordpress

Lorem Ipsum Generator: Creates a button on wysiwyg toolbars to add a configurable amount of Lorem Ipsum text to a
post, page or any other custom post type.

lorem shortcode: This plugin contains two shortcodes, lorem and loremimage, the loremimage shortcode can be nested in
the lorem shortcode.

WP Dummy Content: Easy generation and deletion of blog posts, pages, and sub pages for developers. Full site structure
in one click.

WP Dummy Post Generator: A plugin that generates dummy posts and dummy categories. It also allows to set names for
blogs or taglines.

Bulk Page Maker: Creates up to 20 pages or posts at a time. You can choose title, slug, parent, template, status, format,
and content via the default WordPress Editor.

Lorem ipsum dummy article shortcode: A seeded dummy article generator. This doesn't only generates 'Lorem Ipsum'
shortcode but also full HTML articles.

DNS Ipsum - Due North Studios Lorem Ipsum Generator: Adds Lorem Ipsum text using [dns-ipsum] shortcode and a
TinyMCE button.

Lorem Ipsum and Place Holder Image Generator: A simple to use Lorem Ipsum generator.

Lorem Ipsum Replace Content: Replaces content with Lorem Ipsum, substitutes word for word.

Data Generator: Makes example posts, pages, custom terms, helps to style and develop new and current themes. It's
based on the Lolita framework.

Overview of all Wordpress plugins for Lorem Ipsum generation.

3. Magento

Hatimeria Landing Pages: Creates landing pages with products using all combinations based on categories, attributes and
their values. Description is supplied in the ackend ("lorem ipsum..."). Supports all features like CMS-Block, injecting
widgets, blocks, or variables.

4. Google Docs

Lorem Generator: A plugin for Chrome browsers that allows designers and webmaster to generate Lorem Ipsum text from
the sidebar without leaving Google Docs.

5. Drupal

Drupal Ipsum: A helper module for generating dummy filler text. Presently it defines a new ipsum provider plugin manager
service that allows for pluggable ipsum provider classes, making it easy to change existing implementations and also to
add new ones.

Lorem ipsum: A simple filler text generator generator. Use your custom sentences and create some original Lorem ipsum.
 6. Adobe Dreamweaver, a web development environment, has a plugin in form of a Dreamweaver object named Dreamweaver
Text. It can be accessed both from the Objects menu via Common > Lorem Ipsum palette or using the Lorem Ipsum entry in
the Insert > Technocurve Menu.

An alternative, possibly more versatile, is Lorem and More. It inserts dummy copy as paragraphs, lists, and regular text.
Optionally available are extracts from a speech by Cicero, corporate nonsense, and a randomised sonnet by Shakespeare.
Text may be inserted in code view and design view. The tool can be accessed via the Lorem and More icon on the Common
tab of the Insert bar (MX) or the Common objects panel (DW4). Else, it's accessible using the menu: Insert > Lorem and
More.

7. It's easy to insert dummy copy with the Scribus text editor. Select a text frame, then chose "Sample Text" from the context
menu after right-clicking. Predefined dummy copy in any languages can be set by configuring an XML file and storing it in a
subdirectory "/loremipsum" of your Scribus installation. >> screenshots

Lorem Ipsum plugins: editors

Notepad++

For notepad++, a Windows text editor, the InsertLoremIpsumNppPlugin can be downloaded at twenfour.com. It generates and
inserts Lorem Ipsum, either as words, sentences, or paragraphs. The installation requires to copy the file
InsertLoremIpsumNppPlugin.dll and the Config directory (both are contained in the zip file) to the "plugins" subdirectory of the
Notepad++ installation directory. Afterwards, a new option "InsertLoremIpsum" will show in the "plugin" menu entry. A restart
may be required. >> screenshots

ToolBucket: This plugin allows for base 64 encoding, it has a change indentation dialog, it generates Lorem Ipsum and has
many more features.

Sublime Text

Insert lorem and press the tab key, this will insert a Lorem Ipsum paragraph. lorem200 + tab will add 200 words.

Lorem Ipsum generator: A plugin by Emmet, an toolkit for web-developers. After installation type lorem or lipsum, this will
generate a 30-words dummy text, splitted into a few sentences. You can also use it inside repeated elements to create tags
filled with completely random sentences. For example, p*4>lorem would generate 4 paragraphs with greeking text. ul.generic-
list>lorem10.item*4 will generate an unordered list with the class name "generic-list" that contains 4 list items with ten words
of Lorem Ipsum each.

LoremIpsum: A plugin for Sublime Editor 2 and 3 from billymoon hosted at github.com. It allows to insert Lorem Ipsum in the
editor via menu items or keyboard shortcuts. Select how much text you want from the menu item in Edit->Text->Lorem Ipsum
or in the right click menu in Lorem Ipsum. Press the shortcut key (Alt+Shift+L) to add Lorem Ipsum text. Keep pressing to add
more.

Geany: GeanyLipsum is a plugin for Windows and Linux. It inserts Lorem Ipsum copy with a length of 1 to 5,000 chars and
provides a keyboard shortcut.

Do you know of other plugins? Please tell us.

Lorem ipsum: footer

online privacy policy | byteshift web design | info on lorem ipsum