The Internet's Best Placeholder Image Sites for Web Development

So you're making a site but you haven't got the images ready. You'll need placeholders, but things are changing quick and you don't want to make a bunch of images you'll eventually through away.

Enter placeholder image sites. The de factor standard for these sites is that you call a URL similar to sitename.com/width/height and you'll get an image back. Sometimes you can add text, or add a g for gray scale. You'd be surprised how much more compelling it makes basic layouts.

For example, gets you this:

Here's a collection of the web's best sites for dynamic placeholder images.

NiceNiceJpg.com

The only image placeholder service on the web bringing you nothing but Vanilla Ice jpgs.

• Standard: http://nicenicejpg.com/600/400
• Square: http://nicenicejpg.com/600

PlaceCage.com

The internet was missing the ability to provide custom-sized placeholder images of Nicolas Cage. Now it can.

• Calm: http://placecage.com/200/300
• Gray: http://placecage.com/g/200/300
• CRAZY: http://placecage.com/c/200/300

FillMurray

The internet was missing the ability to provide custom-sized placeholder images of Bill Murray.

• Calm: http://fillmurray.com/200/300
• Gray: http://fillmurray.com/g/200/300

PlaceBear.com

Color: http://placebear.com/200/300
Gray: http://placebear.com/g/200/300

DummyImage.com

More complex but more flexible, DummyImage lets you do colors, gradients and announce the size.

For example http://dummyimage.com/450x250/f00/fff is

LorumPixel.com

LorumPixels lets you choose from various categories like cats, nightlife, or people.

So http://lorempixel.com/400/200/sports/Dummy-Text/ gets you this. And it's random, which is a nice touch.

PlaceHold.It

The original and cleanest, you get gray placeholders.

http://placehold.it/350x150 is

FPOImg.com

For Placement Only is similar.

http://fpoimg.com/300x300?text=Hanselman gets you:

PlaceKItten.com

Placeholder kittens.

http://placekitten.com/300/350 gets you:

Or, if you want to fight, there's also

PlaceDog.com

So http://placedog.com/400/300 gets you

Which inevitably led us to

PlaceZombies.com

Wherein http://placezombies.com/425x300 yields

PlaceSheen.com

Even better, why not http://placesheen.com/400/250 for

Did I miss any awesome ones?

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