Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum

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 Original

• http://www.lipsum.com/

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 great 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.

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.

Lipsum with a twist

Below are some tools that still generate the Lipsum we know and love/hate, but have their own take on the output or the way it’s generated.

• 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!