How to test an Arabic design with proper placeholder text
You are designing an Arabic page, app screen or brochure, and the real copy has not arrived. You need filler that behaves like real Arabic: joined letters, right-to-left lines and Arabic word lengths. This generator produces Arabic placeholder text with exactly the number of paragraphs and words you set, so you can test fonts, spacing and templates before the final text exists.
It is for designers, front-end developers and anyone building a magazine template, a slide deck, a card or an app layout in Arabic.
How to use it
- Set Paragraphs to anything from 1 to 20.
- Set Words per paragraph from 1 to 200. The text updates as soon as you change a number.
- Press Generate text for a different arrangement with the same counts, or Short example for two paragraphs of 30 words.
- Check the line under Placeholder text: it shows the paragraph count and the total number of words.
- Press Copy or Download .txt and paste the text into your design file.
Worked examples from the tool
تبدأ الفكرة بسؤال صغير يفتح أمامنا مساحة للتجربة والتأمل نرتب الكلمات بعناية ونترك بينها ما يكفي من الضوء، حتى يقرأها الجميع بسهولة يحمل كل سطر معنى واضحا ويمنح الصفحة إيقاعها. ونوازن بين النص والمساحة ليس الوصول إلى الوضوح عملا سريعا بل سلسلة من المحاولات المدروسة يجمع هذا المكان، بين أفكار مختلفة تبحث عن لغة مشتركة تنمو الحكايات حين نصغي إلى.
Settings: Paragraphs: 2 · Words per paragraph: 30
تبدأ الفكرة بسؤال صغير. ونوازن بين النص والمساحة. الكلمات على الصفحة مثل.
Settings: Paragraphs: 3 · Words per paragraph: 4
Why Latin lorem ipsum is the wrong test for Arabic
Latin lorem ipsum hides exactly what you need to check in an Arabic layout:
- Joining. Arabic letters change shape with their position in the word, and many fonts merge lam and alef into one form. Latin filler cannot show whether your font draws these shapes well, or how it looks in bold and light weights.
- Line height. Arabic has tall letters such as ا ل ط, deep descenders such as ي ن ع, and dots above and below. A line height tuned for Latin can make Arabic lines collide or clip.
- Direction. Arabic lines start on the right, the full stop lands at the left end, and alignment, arrows and some icons mirror. Latin text still runs left to right inside an RTL box, so none of this shows.
- Word length. Arabic attaches conjunctions, prepositions, the article and pronouns to words, which changes word lengths and where lines wrap. A headline that fits on one line in English may wrap in Arabic.
- Justification. Some layout programs justify Arabic by stretching letter connections, not just widening spaces. Latin filler will never show you that.
What the generator actually produces
The vocabulary was written for this site: short, neutral sentences about ideas, pages and words. It is not a real article, not a translation of lorem ipsum, and not a religious or literary text. The generator recombines this vocabulary, so words repeat and a paragraph may start or end mid-sentence.
The counts are exact. A word is anything between spaces, and punctuation never counts as a word. The tool adds an Arabic comma after every 18 words and a full stop at the end of each paragraph. There are no vowel marks, digits or Latin words.
Tips for a more honest test
- Test the longest content you expect, not the average. Try one 200-word paragraph for an article page and 3–5 words for buttons and headings.
- If you have a similar real text, measure it in the Counter and generate the same number of words.
- Add your own line with a phone number, a price and an English brand name to see how the design handles mixed text.
- If the design will carry vowelled words, such as a product name, type a sample in Arabic keys and add it: harakat need extra room above and below the line.
- If one letter shows in a different typeface from the rest, your font lacks that glyph and the browser is borrowing another font.
- Replace the placeholder with real content before you publish.
Limits
- The text carries no connected meaning, repeats words, and a paragraph may open mid-sentence with a word such as «ونوازن».
- It contains no vowel marks, digits, Latin words or emoji. Add them yourself if your design needs them.
- The maximum is 20 paragraphs of 200 words each.
- The vocabulary is general Modern Standard Arabic; it does not represent long technical terms, dialects or product names.
- It is test content only and is not suitable for publishing.
Frequently asked questions
Is the text taken from a book or from the Quran?
No. The vocabulary was written for this site for testing and is not quoted from any book or religious text, so your mock-up never carries sacred text by accident.
Why do some paragraphs start with an odd word?
Each paragraph starts from a different point in the vocabulary so that paragraphs do not repeat each other, and that point can fall mid-sentence.
Why does the text change every time I press Generate text?
Each press starts the paragraphs from new points in the vocabulary. The paragraph and word counts stay exactly as you set them.
Can it generate text with harakat?
Not in this tool. Type a few vowelled words in Arabic keys and add them, so you can test line height with marks.
How many words should I choose?
Measure the real text in the Counter if you have it. If not, test the longest text you expect, because layouts usually break on long content, not short.
My design is bilingual. What should I use?
Use English filler for the English side and this text for the Arabic side, so each language appears in its own font and direction.