Many times through­out my day as a web devel­oper, I find myself styling a page that has a woe­ful lack of copy. Rather than roller­skat­ing over to the mar­ket­ing depart­ment and demand­ing some text, I turn to my trusted friend Lorum Ipsum. 

Many of you are likely acquainted with Lorum Ipsum already, but for those who aren’t, I turn to the wikipedia:

In pub­lish­ing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is com­mon place­holder text used to demon­strate the graphic ele­ments of a doc­u­ment or visual pre­sen­ta­tion, such as font, typog­ra­phy, and lay­out.
Even though using “lorem ipsum” often arouses curios­ity due to its resem­blance to clas­si­cal Latin, it is not intended to have mean­ing. Where text is vis­i­ble in a doc­u­ment, peo­ple tend to focus on the tex­tual con­tent rather than upon over­all pre­sen­ta­tion, so pub­lish­ers use lorem ipsum when dis­play­ing a type­face or design in order to direct the focus to pre­sen­ta­tion. “Lorem ipsum” also approx­i­mates a typ­i­cal dis­tri­b­u­tion of let­ters in English.

The most com­mon lorem ipsum text reads as follows:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, con­secte­tur adip­isic­ing elit, sed do eius­mod tem­por inci­didunt ut labore et dolore magna ali­qua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nos­trud exerci­ta­tion ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea com­modo con­se­quat. Duis aute irure dolor in rep­re­hen­derit in volup­tate velit esse cil­lum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excep­teur sint occae­cat cup­i­datat non proident, sunt in culpa qui offi­cia deserunt mol­lit anim id est laborum. 

While I’ve been using Lorum Ipsum for years, I only recently began using the Lorum Ipsum gen­er­a­tor.

This thing gives you cus­tom Lorum Ipsum in a bunch of dif­fer­ent for­mats. How rad!
I use this tool reg­u­larly, so I thought I should pass it on.

& on that note, I’m off to work.