Sample text and Markdown files
Free text and Markdown test files from 5 KB to 1 GB. Pick a size and download, or type any size you need.
Sample text fileClassic · 703 B
Accents, four non-Latin scripts, a tab, curly quotes and a deliberately over-long line
Sample Markdown fileClassic · 792 B
Headings, emphasis, a nested list, a table, a block quote and a fenced code block
Sample SVG imageClassic · 603 B
A small vector image with shapes, a path and text, for testing SVG conversion and minifying
5 KB text and Markdown
30 paragraphs
10 KB text and Markdown
60 paragraphs
100 KB text and Markdown
602 paragraphs
500 KB text and Markdown
2,985 paragraphs
1 MB text and Markdown
5,957 paragraphs
5 MB text and Markdown
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10 MB text and Markdown
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25 MB text and Markdown
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50 MB text and Markdown
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100 MB text and Markdown
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500 MB text and Markdown
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1 GB text and Markdown
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What is inside
- Accented Latin, Japanese, Arabic, Greek and Devanagari
- A literal tab character, and curly quotes
- A line long enough to reveal where a tool wraps
- Markdown headings, emphasis, a nested list and a block quote
- A Markdown table and a fenced code block
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About text and Markdown files
Plain text sounds like the format with nothing to go wrong, and it is where encoding problems appear most often. A file is only a sequence of bytes; what those bytes mean depends on an encoding that the file does not usually declare. Read UTF-8 as Latin-1 and every accented character turns to mojibake.
These samples are UTF-8 without a byte order mark, which is the modern default nearly everywhere except some Windows tooling. The non-Latin scripts are there so an encoding problem is visible immediately rather than three weeks later.
Markdown adds structure to plain text while staying readable as plain text. There are several dialects, and they disagree most about tables, footnotes and raw HTML. So test a Markdown converter on a table in particular. This sample includes one for that reason.
Sources: RFC 3629, UTF-8 (IETF) · CommonMark specification 0.31.2 (commonmark.org) · GitHub Flavored Markdown specification (GitHub)
Questions
What encoding are these files?
UTF-8, with no byte order mark and Unix line endings. If the non-Latin characters look like nonsense when you open them, the tool reading the file has guessed the wrong encoding. The sample is designed to show exactly that fault.
Which Markdown dialect is the .md file?
CommonMark, plus the pipe-table syntax from GitHub Flavored Markdown. Tables are the commonest point of disagreement between dialects, which is why one is included.
Why is the SVG here rather than with the images?
Because an SVG is text. You can open it in any editor and read it, and it is minified, formatted and validated by text tools rather than image ones.
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For developers: exact bytes and SHA-256
Sizes are decimal (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes). The hosted files never change between builds, so these checksums stay valid.
| File | Bytes | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|
| sample-5kb.txt | 4,995 bytes | b657fbd08bfddf688e48edb18f47eb48edbb2775a853fa506a5036dd17c3e510 |
| sample-10kb.txt | 9,880 bytes | da4353dc5045f840af598ad772e7666e4f1b271331bc380cf256fa40e4197b30 |
| sample-100kb.txt | 99,918 bytes | b849db386bd5c7dc6a5def81419c5f0dbd295efb5f4623bd3f00e2f3d1c00d15 |
| sample-500kb.txt | 499,928 bytes | 3c196d181b3670bc30f72a73a622bdef5c29b4f5d689c85539ae0a0fb70d2523 |
| sample-1mb.txt | 999,928 bytes | edf57f84e2c817a4b8ac13ad9d234dbc838c5df5e912d65d5a62bca454e9c500 |