Lorem Ipsum Generator

What's the Point of Dummy Text?

The purpose of dummy text is to *prevent people from reading the content*. If you use real sentences in a mockup, stakeholders will start debating the copy instead of the design. A meeting that should be about spacing and layout turns into, "This phrase sounds a bit awkward." The tradition of using unreadable Latin text is a physical solution to this problem.

The second purpose is to test content volume. Real-world content is almost always longer than what's in the initial mockup. A title expands to two lines, a card description stretches to three, and the layout breaks. Generating text with varying units and counts is a way to proactively check what happens when content gets longer.

• Cards and Lists — Try adding the longest and shortest possible items together. The real thing to check is how the layout behaves when one-line and three-line items are mixed.
• Buttons and Badges — The smaller the text container, the more likely it is to break with longer text. Try generating a few words to test this.
• Empty States — Conversely, your mockup should also include the screen for when there is no text at all.

Why You Need Korean-Specific Dummy Text

This is a critical point for anyone designing for a Korean audience. A layout that looks fine with Lorem Ipsum will look completely different when you drop in Korean text. There isn't just one reason for this.

• Character Width — Korean characters (Hangul) are typically "full-width," meaning they occupy more horizontal space than most Latin alphabet characters. For the same number of characters, a line of Korean text is significantly longer. It's common for a two-line title in Latin text to become three lines in Korean.
• Line Break Rules — English breaks lines only between words, but Korean can break between any two characters. This makes the right edge of a Korean text block look flush (like justified text), while Latin text is ragged. The right-margin alignment issues you might have struggled with in a Latin mockup can vanish, only to be replaced by a new problem: words breaking in the middle, which hurts readability.
• Line Height — At the same font size, Korean characters appear denser and more "filled in" than Latin letters. As a result, line height that looks comfortable for Latin text often feels cramped in Korean. This is why it's common practice to use a more generous line height, like 1.6 to 1.8, for Korean body text.
• Fonts — If the English font used in a mockup doesn't support Korean characters, the browser will substitute a different font to render the text. This means the final screen will use a different typeface than the one in your design file.

How to Combine the Options

The tool is simple: just a Unit, a Count, and two checkboxes. Each option serves a different purpose.

• The 'Start with "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…"' checkbox locks a conventional opening sentence in place. In Latin mode, it's the classic "Lorem ipsum..."; in Korean mode, it's "This sentence is an example text to check the layout and typeface." This helps viewers instantly recognize the text as a placeholder.
• The combination of sentences changes with every generation, and no sentence is repeated within a single block of generated text. The number of sentences per paragraph also varies, making the result feel more like real-world writing.
• Clicking 'Save' downloads the result as a .txt file (or .html if 'Wrap with <p> tags' is enabled). You can generate up to 100 units at a time.

Accidentally Shipping Dummy Text to Production

It might sound like a joke, but this happens all the time. Every year, somewhere, a site launches with 'Lorem ipsum' in the footer or a product description filled with placeholder text.

The risk is even greater with Korean dummy text. Latin placeholders are visually distinct and usually caught during QA, but plausible-sounding Korean sentences can easily be overlooked. You might end up shipping an 'About Us' page that literally says, 'Good design is unnoticeable and blends in naturally.'

• When you insert dummy text, leave a marker like a comment or a custom attribute. A single `data-dummy` attribute makes it easy to find all instances with a project-wide search later on.
• Pre-deploy Search — Add a search for 'Lorem', 'ipsum', and the first sentence of the Korean dummy text ('This sentence is an example…') to your pre-launch checklist.
• Search Engine Indexing — If a page containing dummy text gets indexed, it can start showing up in search results for those placeholder phrases. Search engines might also penalize the page for having low-quality content, hurting its ranking.

What Dummy Text Can't Verify

To be perfectly honest, dummy text has its limits. It generates "average" text and won't expose edge cases.

• Extremes in Real Data — A product name that's 80 characters long, a user's name that's a single character, or a description that's completely empty. Dummy text is always a reasonable length, so it won't catch these issues. You must do a final review with actual data before launching.
• Number and Currency Alignment — The generated text contains almost no numbers. You'll need to separately verify things like decimal alignment for prices or right-alignment in tables.
• Mixed English and Special Characters — Text in real-world Korean services often includes English brand names, parentheses, and slashes. A pure Korean dummy text won't reveal how line breaks behave with these mixed character sets.
• Long URLs and Email Addresses — A long string of text with no spaces (like a URL) can overflow its container and break the layout. This is a classic edge case that won't appear when using generated sentences.