Lorem Ipsum by Character Count
This preset starts with 500 plain-content characters. Enter any whole-number count from 1 to 100,000 for exact-length placeholder text; spaces and punctuation count and a final word can be cut. Leave HTML tags off for copied output of exactly that length. The opening preference is restored from your remembered settings.
Characters counts the generated plain content, including spaces and punctuation. HTML tags add characters outside that requested count. Words allows up to 10,000; Characters up to 100,000; other modes up to 200.
Every paragraph is composed fresh from the Latin of Cicero’s De Finibus, the passage this placeholder was corrupted from in the 1500s. Looping one stock paragraph would hide the wrapping and line-length problems placeholder text exists to reveal.
Common questions
- Does 500 characters mean 500 letters?
- No. It includes letters, spaces and punctuation in the generated plain content. The vocabulary is Latin-script text, so each generated character occupies one UTF-16 code unit.
- What happens if I enable HTML?
- A <p> wrapper is added around the requested content. Its opening and closing tags add seven characters, so 500 content characters produce 507 output characters.
- Why can the text end halfway through a word?
- The last word is cut when necessary to meet the exact requested length. Choose Words instead when complete words matter more than exact character length.
Deliberately meaningless placeholder copy from Lorem Ipsum vocabulary. Words mode returns the requested word count; Characters returns the requested plain-content length including spaces and punctuation, possibly ending mid-word. HTML tags add to the output length. Paragraph, sentence and list-item counts follow the selected unit.