Lorem Ipsum Generator

What is lorem ipsum?

Lorem ipsum is scrambled Latin filler text that designers use to stand in for real copy, so a layout can be judged on its own before the words exist. It starts "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit" and is based on a passage from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (On the Ends of Good and Evil), written by Cicero in 45 BC; a typesetter cut and reshuffled the words centuries ago, and Letraset transfer sheets in the 1960s made that version the standard, followed by desktop publishing software in the 1980s.

Designers use dummy text because it looks like language without reading like one: the word lengths and sentence rhythm are close to English, so columns, line heights and type sizes look right, while nobody stops to read the meaning. This generator builds its text from that classic vocabulary (about 200 Latin words): sentences of 6–16 words with a comma now and then, paragraphs of 3–7 sentences, a capital letter at the start and a period at the end.

Looking for a dummy text generator by another name? /tools/dummy-text-generator opens this page; /tools/placeholder-image-generator opens it on the Image tab.

Placeholder image generator

A placeholder image is a plain rectangle at the exact pixel size of the picture that will go there later, so a layout, a slide or an ad slot can be built and tested before the real asset exists. The Image tab makes one in your browser: 1920x1080 (full hd slide, video thumbnail), 1280x720 (hd slide, small video), 1080x1080 (square social post), 1080x1350 (portrait social post), 1080x1920 (story, vertical video), 1200x630 (open graph link preview), 300x250 (medium rectangle ad), 728x90 (leaderboard ad), 160x600 (wide skyscraper ad), or any custom size from 1 to 4,000 px per side up to 16 megapixels. Set the background and text colours, keep the default "{width} × {height}" label or type your own, and download a PNG, JPG, WebP; the file is always the real size, the preview on screen is only scaled to fit.

The size set is for people who export the same set of sizes every week: tick several presets (and your custom size), press Download all, and the tool saves one file per size, one after another, named placeholder-1920x1080.png and so on. Save the set as a preset ("Campaign sizes") and it is one tap next time. No ZIP is built and no image is uploaded; everything is drawn on a canvas on your device.

Placeholders inside a Canva design work differently: there, the slot a photo drops into is a frame. Image to Frame turns any shape or PNG into one, so a mock-up becomes a template: open Image to Frame in Canva↗. Need a round photo instead of a grey box? The circle crop image crops a real picture into a circle, in the browser like this page.

Lorem ipsum vs real copy

Swap lorem ipsum for real words as soon as the layout is agreed, because dummy text hides the problems real copy brings: headlines that are twice as long, a product name that will not break across lines, a price that needs a wider column, a translation that grows by a third. Filler text is right for the first pass, when you are choosing a grid, a type scale and image sizes and the content is not written yet.

A good middle step is realistic draft copy in the right length: use the Words or Characters unit to match the limit of the field (a 160-character meta description, a 40-word product blurb) so the design is tested against the real constraint, then replace it with the final text before anyone reviews the page. Never ship lorem ipsum: search engines index it, screen readers read it aloud, and it is the most common leftover in published templates.

Mocking up a sign-up form or a QR poster at the same time? The password generator gives realistic sample passwords and the bulk qr code generator makes one QR code per row of a list, both without uploading anything.

Content briefs: get the real copy from your client

A content brief link lets your client write the real words straight into the blocks of the page you designed, so the project does not stall waiting for copy. Open the Page kit tab, pick a template (Landing page, Small-business home, About, Services or Product page) and every block gets filler at a length inside its word budget: a 5–9 word hero headline, 20–30 words per service card, 30–50 words per FAQ answer. Copy all pastes it into your mock-up as labelled text, Markdown, HTML or one line per block, and Download images saves one placeholder per image slot (hero-1600x900.png and so on).

Send brief to client turns the same blocks into one link. Your client opens it on any phone, sees each block with its label, "Aim for 20–30 words" and a meter that says too short, good or too long, and types; the draft is kept in their browser, so they can come back over several days. Send my copy back gives them a link for you: open it and the copy lands in the matching project, block by block, ready for Copy all. Nothing is uploaded: the project name, the blocks and the client's words travel only in the link after #, which browsers never send to a server.

Open it straight from here: Page kit tab. Building the same pages in Canva? Turn each photo slot into a frame with Image to Frame, so the client's photos drop straight in.

Is anything I type uploaded?

No: the tool is entirely client-side. The text is generated in your browser from a built-in word list, placeholder images are drawn on a canvas on your device and downloaded straight from it, and there is no image API. Your settings and presets live in this browser's local storage under one key (qrdy.lorem.v1); the analytics record only settings and counts (unit, amount as a range, format, a preset size or "custom"), never the generated text, the label you typed on an image or a preset name. If your browser blocks storage, the tool still works and tells you that presets will not be kept.