9 Interesting Image Placeholder Tools

As we all know about the lorem ipsum, It’s totally fake content to put in your mockup but sometimes it’s not suitable for the design. It’s a random text used as placeholder copy in designs. Lorem ipsum is a useful tool but can be a bit dry. Luckily, there are dozens of funny lorem ipsum generators out there, to help add some flavor to your mockups. Lorem Ipsum is great because we all know what it means, even if we don’t understand Latin. It means you need something to fill in this blank space here. But what if you were to replace that text in Latin with something most of your peers already know and would find very funny? Yes, that’s right. Office talk. When prototyping a new layout its convenient to use placeholder images then it is to use the final images. You could make the placeholder images in an image editing program. There is a far better way using image placeholder tools you can quickly get an image of any size you require by simply going to website and placing your desired width and height after the address.

placehold.it

How does it work? Just put your image size after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder.

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Holder.js

Holder renders image placeholders entirely in browser.

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placekitten

A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder.

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Dynamic Dummy Image Generator

It generates flat placeholder images, which is absolutely necessary for certain things. I’ve used Dummy Image for a very long time.

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Pipsum

Are you finding the legal dummy text for your sweet design then this Ipsum will surely help you to make your client happy!. This generator is about as readable as any terms and conditions page.

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lorempixel

The most lorem ipsum generator around, though you’ve probably never heard of it.

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Fake images please?

When designing websites, you may not have the images you need at first. But you already know the sizes and inserting some placeholders can help you better seeing the layout. Don’t waste your time making dummy images for your mockup or wireframe. Fakeimg.pl is a little tool that generates images with an URL. Choose the size, the colors, even the text. It’s free and open-source.

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