Lorem6 is a tool for anyone who is conscious about the length or the width of their text. It places character counts inside Lorem Ipsum text so that the maximum width or number of characters can be determined and/or considered in a design.

In my work as a UX/UI designer I'm often asked what the maximum length of a piece of text should be; either by a content writer or by a developer. I used to copy text into a character counter until I realised that these character counts may as well be embedded inside the lorem ipsum text that I was already using in my designs. This quickly speeds up the process. Other use cases that could be handy by placing character counts inside lorem ipsum text: - Know the maximum with of a piece of text based on a maximum characters per line (cpl). WCAG advises a maximum of 80 cpl, but there are other common values. We've added these as presets. - Quickly grab the amount of characters that common UI elements could need, such as a Twitter post (244 characters) or a button (32 characters). Could you think of any others?

I used it to know how wide my terminal is, then I could feed this into a pandas script, which can generate tables of the right width when I view them later.

Lorem6

Place character counts inside lorem ipsum text.

Place character counts inside lorem ipsum text.