PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

While developing I prefer not to use internet resources as it degrades load time (important when you are constantly refreshing the page to see your changes).

Instead I use an SVG placeholder that adapts to any size you throw at it: http://jsfiddle.net/yL7Cz/

There's a similar service for that - but with cats! http://placekitten.com/

Cool! I don't know how many times I have used a silly 500 x 500 image and just scaled it to random sizes as I built the views. Only to have to go back and check sizes in code when cutting stuff up in Photoshop.

This way I can just keep an instant overview of the pending sizes. Thanks mate!

Love it. Been using it for a couple years, in fact, used it today.

Lots of little features like:

http://placehold.it/940x315/b03e1f/fff

Where the size is 940 x 315, the background is #b03e1f and the foreground is #fff.

http://placehold.it/940x315/b03e1f/fff&text=foo

Same as above, but the pixel size in the image is replaced with "foo".

While we're on the topic of ad hoc design tools, I made a site called Iconomus (http://iconom.us) to do something similar for icons.

http://dummyimage.com/ works flawlessly too. I use it a lot in my dev cycles.

Very nice, open source it? I've always been interested in returning images with web apps.

Does anyone know which font they use to generate text?