How to Use Lorem Ipsum Placeholder Text in Designs and Websites

Lorem ipsum is the standard dummy text of designers. It looks like real writing but has no meaning, so clients focus on the layout instead of reading the words.

Quick answer

Choose paragraphs, sentences or words, set the number, and copy the result into your design, website or document.

Where it helps

• Website mockups and theme demos.
• Print layouts such as brochures and magazines.
• Templates for newsletters and invoices.
• Testing fonts, line height and column widths.
• Database seeding with realistic length strings.

Steps

1. Open the tool.
2. Choose the unit: paragraphs, sentences or words.
3. Set the count.
4. Copy the text.

Why not use real text?

Real words distract: people read, edit and comment on the copy instead of the design. Lorem ipsum has a natural word length and distribution so the page looks real.

When not to use it

• Final pages. Never publish with placeholder text; search engines index it.
• Accessibility testing. Real content shows readability and reading order problems.
• Language-specific designs. Bangla, Arabic or CJK layouts need text in that script, because line breaks and glyph heights differ.

Tips

• Use a short passage to test the headings and a long one for body text.
• Replace placeholder text with the real content as early as possible.
• Search your site for "lorem ipsum" before launch.