Text & Writing Tools
Four tools for working with prose rather than data — counting it, recasing it, faking it and escaping it.
Counting is the one every writer needs
Word and character limits are everywhere — meta descriptions, UCAS statements, tweets, abstracts, essay briefs. The Word Counter gives words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and an estimated reading time, which is the figure that matters if you are writing to a slot rather than a page count. Reading time assumes roughly 200–250 words a minute for silent adult reading; speaking aloud is closer to 130, so halve it for a script.
Case conversion is not just cosmetic
Changing case by hand is where typos come from. The Case Converter handles sentence, title, upper, lower, camel, snake and kebab in one pass — the last three matter because they are the naming conventions code and URLs expect, and mixing them is a common source of broken links and failed lookups. Note that true title case has rules about short words that a naive capitalise-every-word cannot know; check the result before publishing a headline.
Placeholder text buys you a layout decision
Designing with real copy is better, but real copy is rarely ready first. The Lorem Ipsum produces paragraphs, sentences or words at the length you ask for, so a layout can be tested at the density it will actually carry. Generate the amount you expect to ship, not a comfortable amount — most layouts break on too much text, not too little.
When text has to survive HTML
An ampersand, angle bracket or quote pasted straight into markup can silently break a page or, worse, open an injection hole. The HTML Entities escapes text so it renders as characters rather than markup, and unescapes entity-encoded text back to something readable. If your text is heading into a URL rather than a page body, use the URL Encoder instead — the two encodings are not interchangeable.