What filler text is actually for
Filler exists to answer questions about the design, and different filler answers different questions.
| Question | Which text | | --- | --- | | Does the grid hold together? | Lorem Ipsum | | Do these line lengths read comfortably? | real words | | Does the Russian version fit the same layout? | Cyrillic filler | | Does the heading wrap badly at 320 px? | real words, real lengths |
Latin cannot answer the last three, because its word lengths and letter frequency match no language you are shipping in.
The Cyrillic length problem
The same sentence in Russian is typically a fifth to a third longer than in English, and Russian words break less readily. In practice this means:
- Buttons sized to
Saveoverflow atСохранить. - A two-line heading becomes three lines.
- Fixed-height cards clip their last line.
- Table columns sized to English data need to be wider.
Designing against Cyrillic filler catches all four before translation, not after.
Four shapes
Paragraphs for body copy, sentences for testing lists and table cells, headlines for testing heading wrap, and list items for bullets. Each can come out as plain text or as HTML.
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Questions
Why not just use Lorem Ipsum?+
Lorem Ipsum is deliberately meaningless, which is useful when you want nobody to read the text. It is useless for judging whether a design survives real copy: Latin has an unusual letter distribution, no Cyrillic, and word lengths that do not match either English or Russian. Use both — Lorem for wireframes, this for layout you intend to ship.
Will a client think this is the real copy?+
It reads as plausible business writing, which is the point and also the risk. Label it clearly in any deliverable, or a placeholder sentence will reach production — this happens more often than anyone admits.
Is Russian text really that different?+
Yes, and it is the most common reason a bilingual layout breaks. Russian runs 20–30% longer than the same English sentence and has fewer natural break points, so buttons overflow, headings wrap to three lines, and fixed-height cards clip.
Can I get HTML instead of plain text?+
Yes — switch the output to HTML and you get `<p>`, `<h2>` or `<ul>` markup depending on the shape you picked.