Lorem Ipsum Generator

About Lorem Ipsum Generator

Lorem ipsum is placeholder text: something to pour into a layout before the real copy exists. The point of using text nobody can read is to keep reviewers looking at type size, line length, leading and paragraph rhythm instead of arguing about what the words say. A mockup filled with realistic English invites edits to the sentences; a mockup filled with pseudo-Latin keeps the conversation on the design.

This generator produces the familiar Latin-style text plus Korean and Japanese dummy text. The Korean and Japanese modes do not just shuffle words. They slot nouns, adjectives and verbs into sentence templates with the right particles and endings, so the output has the shape of real prose even though it means nothing in particular.

Where the words actually come from

The source is Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil), written in 45 BC, specifically sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33. The original passage reads, in part: "Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit…" — roughly, nobody loves or pursues pain itself simply because it is pain. "Lorem" is not a Latin word at all. It is what is left of "dolorem" after the first syllable was chopped off, most likely at a line or page break in the printed edition that was copied.

The connection was worked out by Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar who tracked down the rare word "consectetur" in classical literature. You will often read that an unknown printer created lorem ipsum in the 1500s. McClintock later said that date was a guess with no evidence behind it. What is documented is that the text spread widely in the 1960s through Letraset dry-transfer sheets, which included it as body-copy samples, and later through desktop publishing software that shipped it as default filler. The Wikipedia article on the topic notes that the 1914 Loeb Classical Library edition is the likely physical source, since a page break there falls inside "dolorem".

So the text looks Latin but is scrambled, with words altered, added and dropped. This tool's Latin mode works the same way: it draws from a pool of about 100 words that appear in the classic lorem ipsum corpus and strings 8 to 16 of them into each sentence. It makes no attempt at grammatical Latin, which is exactly the point.

Why Latin filler misleads you in some layouts

Latin-style text has a letter-frequency profile and average word length reasonably close to English, which is why it works well for English and most European layouts. It does not work well for everything.

• Headlines and buttons: length is the design. "Save" and "Save changes and continue" do not fit the same button, and random Latin will not tell you which you are designing for. Use realistic draft copy here.
• German, Finnish and similar languages run long compound words that break lines differently. A column that looks fine with lorem ipsum can overflow or hyphenate badly with real German.
• Korean and Japanese are set in full-width characters. The same box holds far fewer characters per line than it holds Latin letters, and line breaks follow different rules. A card height tuned with lorem ipsum often overflows once Korean copy arrives.
• Font fallback: if your web font lacks glyphs for the real language, the browser substitutes a system font mid-line. Latin filler never reveals that.

Korean and Japanese dummy text

Korean attaches particles to nouns, and the particle changes depending on whether the last syllable ends in a consonant (batchim): 이/가, 은/는, 을/를. The Korean mode checks this for each word, so you get "구름이" but "미소가", just as real text would. The result reads like vague, slightly poetic Korean, and its word lengths and sentence endings match what an actual Korean paragraph looks like on screen.

Japanese has no spaces between words; sentences break only at 「、」 and 「。」. In Japan, designers have traditionally filled layouts with passages from public-domain literature or with the phrase ダミーテキスト repeated. This tool's Japanese mode joins kanji and kana words with particles such as が, は, に and の, and in word mode it outputs them with no separators at all. If you want to check kinsoku rules (the Japanese line-breaking rules that keep 「。」 and small kana from starting a line), use sentence or paragraph mode rather than word mode.

The classic mistake: shipping it

Placeholder text reaching production is common enough to be a running joke, from product pages to printed menus. A quick search of your build output for "lorem" and "ipsum" before release catches most of it. Be more careful with the Korean and Japanese modes: they look like real language, so they are harder to spot in a review.

Worked examples

How to use it

1. Pick a language (Latin, Korean, Japanese) and a unit (paragraphs, sentences, words).
2. Set the count. Each paragraph gets a random 3 to 7 sentences.
3. Choose whether to start with the standard opening sentence, then generate and copy.

Frequently asked questions