Lipsum.pro. The superfast Lorem Ipsum text generator

The superfast Lorem Ipsum text generator

Lipsum.pro is a completely free random text generator. It makes placeholder text — also called dummy text, filler text or greeking — for design and development work. Choose characters, words, sentences or paragraphs, slide the matching column to set the amount, and release. The text is ready to copy straight away.

Everything runs in the browser. The tool works with a mouse, a keyboard or a touchscreen. There is no account, no sign up, no limit on how much you generate, and no charge for any of it.

Made for designers, developers and engineers

Placeholder text earns its keep in the gap between a layout and its real copy. Designers fill mockups and wireframes in Figma, Sketch or Penpot to see how a grid behaves before a word is written. Front-end developers stub components and templates while the CMS is still empty. Engineers seed test data and fixtures. Writers check how a headline sits at the length it will really be.

Because the text carries no meaning, everyone reviewing it judges the design — the spacing, the rhythm, the line length — instead of arguing about the words.

Placeholder text in eight scripts

Layouts are rarely English only. Lipsum.pro generates filler in eight writing systems, so a mockup can show the glyph density, line height and reading direction of the language it is actually for. Arabic and Hebrew are set right to left. Chinese and Japanese are set without spaces between words.

The API

Anything the tool generates is also available as a plain GET request. The API is free, needs no key and has no sign up. It is intended for build scripts, design tools, AI assistants, and anything else that needs placeholder text without opening a browser.

GET https://lipsum.pro/api?type=paragraphs&count=3&script=latin&format=json

Parameters

Code examples

The same request from a terminal, a front-end build, or a Python fixture script:

curl

curl "https://lipsum.pro/api?type=paragraphs&count=2"

JavaScript / TypeScript

const res = await fetch("https://lipsum.pro/api?type=words&count=40&format=json");
const { text, words, characters } = await res.json();

Node.js

import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";

const res = await fetch("https://lipsum.pro/api?type=paragraphs&count=10&format=markdown");
await writeFile("fixture.md", await res.text());

Python

import json, urllib.request

url = "https://lipsum.pro/api?type=sentences&count=5&format=json"
data = json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url))
print(data["text"])

PHP

$json = file_get_contents(
  "https://lipsum.pro/api?type=paragraphs&count=3&format=json"
);
$data = json_decode($json, true);

Go

res, _ := http.Get("https://lipsum.pro/api?type=words&count=50")
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

Internationalisation testing

# Japanese, to check glyph density and line breaking
curl "https://lipsum.pro/api?type=characters&count=280&script=japanese"

# Arabic, to check right-to-left layout
curl "https://lipsum.pro/api?type=paragraphs&count=2&script=arabic"

# Pseudolocalised, to find what truncates before translating anything
curl "https://lipsum.pro/api?type=words&count=60&pseudo=true"

Use it from an AI assistant

There is an MCP server, so an assistant can generate placeholder text inside a conversation — filling a component, checking a right-to-left layout, or pseudolocalising to see what breaks. It is free, needs no key, and works in Claude, Cursor and any other MCP client.

Once it is installed, ask for text in plain language:

• “Fill this card component with about 200 characters of Japanese.”
• “Give me five paragraphs of Arabic so I can check the right-to-left layout.”
• “Pseudolocalise forty words — I want to see what truncates.”

Claude Code

claude mcp add lipsum -- npx -y lipsum-mcp

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lipsum": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "lipsum-mcp"] }
  }
}

Node 18 or newer. The package is on npm as lipsum-mcp, and is a thin client over this same API — no account, no key, nothing to configure.

What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is placeholder text used to review a layout's typography and spacing without the distraction of readable words. The scrambled Latin comes from a passage of Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, written in 45 BC. Printers have used it as standard filler since the 1500s. Because the words carry no meaning, a reviewer judges the design rather than the copy.

Frequently asked questions