15 Useful Placeholder Tools for Designers and Developers 🤩🚀

Have you ever worked on a layout design and came across thinking if only I knew some generator to create some temporary samples for me? This can be attributed to anything - sample text, images, brand logo, profile pictures, JSON data, and more.

In this article, I compiled a list of useful placeholder generators, so that you can speed up your development workflow. All you have to do is copy the sample data generated and paste it into your project where you want to use it.

To make it easier for you, I sorted them across categories, provided a direct link, a concise description, and a preview image for each, so you can get an initial impression on the fly.

Text

1. Lorem Ipsum

Industry's standard dummy text generator.

2. Loripsum.net

An improved version of Lorem Ipsum with options to include links, lists, code blocks, headings, add text styling, and other customization options.

Images

3. Picsum Photos

Provides random or specific images. Specify the desired image size at the end of the request URL. Grayscale and blur effects can also be applied to any image.

4. Placeholder.com

Generates placeholder boxes for layouts. Set background colors, the text used, and other parameters by directly including them in the URL.

Logos

5. Logo Ipsum

Ready to use replacement logos in various styles & compositions for your design. Automatically generates the SVG code for each with just a click on them.

Avatars

6. DiceBear

Avatar library for designers and developers. You can choose between lovely designed characters. Provides API that you can use right away.

7. Personas

A playful avatar generator for the modern age.

8. Avataaars

Allows creating custom avatars by providing specific parameters or using random options till you come up with something you like.

JSON data

9. Random User

An open-source API for generating random user data.

10. JSON Placeholder

REST API that you can use whenever you need some fake data.

11. Fake JSON

Create JSON responses you need with an advanced JSON Editor built-in.

Code blocks

12. Faux Code

Turn real code (Github Gist) into faux code (SVG image).

Entertaining

13. Place Kitten

A service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs.

14. CupCake Ipsum

Sugar-coated Lorem Ipsum generator.

15. RoboHash

Provides unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text.

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Comments

[Liftoff Studios]

You forgot fakerjs
Great article though !!

[Madza]

Great addition, thanks 💯✨

[🩰 The Flying Shooter ❤️‍🔥]

Is it still usable after Endgame?

[Liftoff Studios]

Yes, another community took over it
github.com/faker-js/faker

[🩰 The Flying Shooter ❤️‍🔥]

Wow thanks! I didn't knew about it!

[Madza]

Yes, I just noticed that as well 😉

[🩰 The Flying Shooter ❤️‍🔥]

I personally use placekeanu.com/ for image placeholder. I also use the kittens one but.. Keanu is always keanu <3

[Madza]

Didn't know about that one 😀😀
There are tons of entertaining ones for images as well as Lorem Ipsum 😉

[🩰 The Flying Shooter ❤️‍🔥]

Yeah that's true! I love the cupcakes one for Lorem Ipsums 😀
Btw the avatar ones were completely new to me and very useful! thanks a lot <3

[Madza]

My pleasure and you are welcome! 🙏❤

[Ivana Vnucec]

Very interesting article!

[Madza]

Also if you are interested, here are some more tools for productivity 😉✨

[Madza]

Thanks a lot, hope you found them useful 🙏❤

[1Link.Fun]

robo hash is awesome!

[Madza]

Yeah, I love it too 💯😉

[Somtochukwu Okafor]

This is a nice article

[Madza]

Thank you so much, means a lot! 🙏❤

[Bobby Iliev]

This is super cool!

[Madza]

Thanks a lot! 🙏❤
Very helpful for quick placeholders or sample data 👍

[Kiran Krishnan]

Great list. Thanks for sharing.

[Madza]

Thank you for checking it out! 🙏❤

[Spandan Sehgal]

Amazing post.
Keep it up

[Madza]

Thanks a lot! 🙏❤

[Pau Riosa]

Great article!

[Madza]

Thanks for the support! 🙏❤

[Jackson Kasi]

wow, it's really useful

[Madza]

Thanks a lot, great to hear you found them useful 🙏❤

[Mark Thompson]

Nice list, gonna bookmark for upcoming personal projects

[Madza]

Awesome to hear! Happy to help! 🙏❤

[leratomakhasane]

This is incredible, I appreciate it. Thank you it will assist me a lot

[Madza]

My pleasure to help! 🙏❤

[Samantha]

Fantastic list of useful resources - thank you!
I also use imageplaceholder.net/

[Madza]

Thanks a lot for the valuable addition! 🙏💖

[Gonçalo Dias]

Thanks for the list. Quite helpful

[Madza]

Always happy to help, thanks! 🙏❤