If you’ve been designing web or print work for any amount of time, chances are you’ve copied and pasted your fair share of Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet dummy text to fill in otherwise blank pages while you mock up designs or wait for the client to send you some real content.
Chances are you’re also probably getting a little bored of it too, and who doesn’t like a little choice these days anyway.
The Alternatives
These aren’t in any particular order, so just dig in and see if there’s any you like…
- Malevole’s text generator Paragraphs of text from TV show intro’s or theme tunes etc. If you’re younger than 20, you might want to skip this one
- BlindTextGenerator Lots of options and variations to play with
- Corporate Ipsum A widget for OSX generating some cliched, buzz-word filled business jabber
- sfco.uld.be As far as I can tell it’s text generated by the Corporate Ipsum widget above, but for the benefit of us people without a Mac -you can just copy and paste.
- Leon’s random essay generator Not strictly for this purpose, but it seems some folk do use it to create their dummy text
- adhesiontext™ Lots of options and different langauges/character stes to play with
- Generator3 Yes it has Lipsum in there but there’s plenty options to play with for other languages etc.
- HintPlus Very Lipsummy style output, but with much less old Latin style words.
- Gangsta Lorem ippzle If you’re a fan od words beginning with, including and ending with ‘izzle‘, this one’s for you.
- HTML Ipsum Lipsum ready to copy and paste, but pre-formatted with various HTML tags
- Lorem2 Some dummy text just waiting for you to copy and paste. Basically Lipsum.com without the need to click the ‘generate’ button
If you know of any others that are work a mention just let me know!
The Original
As far as I know this is the original Lorem Ipsum generator – at least it’s the only one I’ve ever used in the past. Genuine Lorem’s good in that it simulates ‘real’ text content with a readable combination of long and short words that are inoffensive and can be used in just about any old place.
I’m not promising the list of alternatives below are all suitable for use in your work – that ultimately depends on the sense of humor of your client. So if you’re doing something for a big corporate gig, probably best sticking to good old Lipsum.
Handy list – thank you. Another that I like is the Yorksire variation T’Lipsum –
http://tlipsum.appspot.com/
made me smile!
Of course, the original Lorem ipsum came from a quote from Cicero (See Wikipedia). It has been adapted to more closely mock up standard English patterns, and for serious use is the best. However, Corporate Ipsum must have been VERY widely distributed – it seems to have been in daily use at many of my corporate clients’ offices. Made my day, thanks for posting.
Look at: http://www.lorem-ipsum-generator.de/
Greetz Rom
Thanks Rom!
Nice list, I often use dummy texts from above sites for designing and testing websites and really hate using the same text over and over again. I also use http://lipsum.ahyeah.nl sometimes, It fetches and filters texts from twitter and digg
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