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Glossary Design & Media

Placeholder image

A placeholder image is a stand-in picture of a set size and colour used while real images are not yet available.

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Designers use them to lay out pages without waiting for photography. A good one shows its pixel dimensions, such as 800 × 450, so layout problems are easy to spot.

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See also

  • Glossary Lorem ipsum
    Lorem ipsum is dummy Latin-like text used to fill page layouts and designs so that reviewers focus on the design rather than the words.
  • Glossary Aspect ratio
    Aspect ratio is the proportion of an image or screen's width to its height, written as two numbers such as 16:9.
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