Random text generator

Generates filler text to an exact length — a set number of words, sentences or paragraphs. Useful for testing a field limit, a layout or an import.

Testing to an exact length is the use this serves that a paragraph generator does not: if a database column takes 255 characters, you want text of exactly that length to check what happens at the boundary and one over it. Filler is also the honest way to test a layout under a realistic load, since a design that works with three words in a heading often breaks with fifteen. Where filler is the wrong tool is anything user-facing that ships — placeholder text has an unfortunate habit of surviving into production, which is why "lorem ipsum" appears on live sites often enough to be a recognisable genre of mistake.