diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index e148af9..35fde61 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## 3.0.0 / not yet released / branch "master"
 
 * ...
+* Add default filter to standard filters, see #267 [Derrick Reimer, djreimer]
 * Add optional strict parsing and warn parsing, see #235 [Tristan Hume, trishume]
 * Add I18n syntax error translation, see #241 [Simon Hørup Eskildsen, Sirupsen]
 * Make sort filter work on enumerable drops, see #239 [Florian Weingarten, fw42]
diff --git a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
index 718a8d9..c938f3a 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
@@ -245,6 +245,11 @@ module Liquid
       apply_operation(input, operand, :%)
     end
 
+    def default(input, default_value = "")
+      is_blank = input.respond_to?(:empty?) ? input.empty? : !input
+      is_blank ? default_value : input
+    end
+
     private
 
     def flatten_if_necessary(input)
diff --git a/test/liquid/standard_filter_test.rb b/test/liquid/standard_filter_test.rb
index fc1a3cb..91c219d 100644
--- a/test/liquid/standard_filter_test.rb
+++ b/test/liquid/standard_filter_test.rb
@@ -274,6 +274,15 @@ class StandardFiltersTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_template_result('abc',"{{ a | prepend: b}}",assigns)
   end
 
+  def test_default
+    assert_equal "foo", @filters.default("foo", "bar")
+    assert_equal "bar", @filters.default(nil, "bar")
+    assert_equal "bar", @filters.default("", "bar")
+    assert_equal "bar", @filters.default(false, "bar")
+    assert_equal "bar", @filters.default([], "bar")
+    assert_equal "bar", @filters.default({}, "bar")
+  end
+
   def test_cannot_access_private_methods
     assert_template_result('a',"{{ 'a' | to_number }}")
   end