Placeholder images travel in packs. One appears in a hero section, another wanders into a card grid, and a third shows up in a blog post pretending to be evidence.
Known behaviors
Placeholder images often:
- imply a feature exists nearby
- make a section easier to scan
- expose awkward spacing before real content arrives
- help reviewers notice crop problems
A tiny caption without a caption component
The sentence below the image can act as a temporary caption until the site has a real figure pattern.
This is not a real screenshot. It is a visual pressure test for the article body.
Notes
Inline images should not stretch beyond the readable column, collapse vertical rhythm, or make the page feel like the content fell out of a different template.