About MiniLorem
MiniLorem is a free placeholder text tool for designers, developers, and writers. No signups, no ads, no AI rewrites — just text generators that do exactly what you ask.
What it does
MiniLorem produces dummy text on demand, in the formats and lengths people actually need:
- Classic Lorem Ipsum, plus Hipster, Office, Tech, and original Cicero variants.
- Exact-length text by character count, word count, or file size (1 KB to 500 MB).
- Output as paragraphs, sentences, words, bulleted lists, HTML, Markdown, JSON, or CSV.
- Custom lengths measured in words, characters, kilobytes, or megabytes — exact, byte-for-byte.
- Ready-to-paste templates for the layouts that always need filler: privacy policy stubs, hero sections, headlines, contact blocks, testimonials, product descriptions, project bios, and more.
- A translator that detects whether pasted text is lorem ipsum and explains what it means and where it came from.
Text generation runs entirely in your browser, so the generators keep working even if your connection drops after the page has loaded.
Why it exists
Most lorem ipsum generators do one thing: they spit out three paragraphs of Latin. That's fine, but the work designers and developers actually do involves more constraints — a tweet has to fit in 280 characters, a meta description in 155, an SEO title in about 60, a max-length form field in whatever a backend says. MiniLorem builds for those constraints first.
It also exists to answer a question millions of people ask every year: what does this Latin-looking text actually mean? The translator and the reference content explain the history, the source text from Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (45 BC), and why the words don't add up to anything coherent.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't store anything you type or generate. Your text is never sent to a server. (Like most sites, we use Google Analytics to count visits; see the Privacy Policy.)
- It doesn't require an account, an API key, or a payment.
- It doesn't translate real Latin. The "translator" identifies and decodes lorem ipsum specifically — for genuine Latin, use a dedicated tool like William Whitaker's Words.
- It doesn't generate AI text. The output is procedurally assembled from a fixed Latin word bank — predictable, reproducible, and free of the variability you get from a language model.
Who it's for
- Designers filling mockups, wireframes, and component libraries.
- Developers seeding fixtures, testing input lengths, or stress-testing layouts with realistic-shaped content.
- Writers and editors who need a quick block of grey text to check rhythm and column width.
- Anyone who pasted "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…" into Google and wondered what it actually means.
How it's built
The whole site is a small set of static HTML files. No frameworks and no build step; the only third-party script is Google Analytics for visitor statistics. Generation happens in plain JavaScript in your browser. It's fast because there's almost nothing to load.
Cost and licensing
The site is free to use and currently shows no ads. Every block of text MiniLorem generates is in the public domain — use it in personal work, client projects, commercial products, books, or anywhere else you'd like, with no attribution required.
Get in touch
Bugs, feedback, or feature ideas? See the contact page.