Glitch Text Generator

How to Make Glitch Text

1. Type or paste your text.
2. Drag to set how many glitch marks each letter gets.
3. Place the marks above, below or on both sides.
4. Press Regenerate for a new random glitch, or clean pasted Zalgo text.
5. Copy your glitch text, or grab a preset like Heavy or Dripping below.

Type your text into the box, then drag the Intensity slider to set how many marks attach to each letter, from 1 to 15 per zone. The glitch text updates the moment you change anything.

Choose where the glitch goes: above and below the letters, above only for a rising effect, or below only for a dripping look. A live counter shows how many marks were added to your text.

Press Regenerate for a new random pattern, then Copy. Five presets underneath give light, medium and heavy versions plus rising and dripping styles, each with its own copy button for quick pasting into any app.

What Is Zalgo Text?

Zalgo text is ordinary text with many Unicode combining characters attached to each base letter. The name comes from an internet horror meme, and people also call the same effect cursed text or creepy text.

Combining characters normally add accents, or diacritics: the acute accent turns e into é. Unicode lets any number attach to one letter, so when dozens are stacked together they spill above and below the normal line.

Worked example: Hello World has 10 letters. At intensity 4 with both zones, each letter gets 4 marks above, 4 below and 1 through the middle, so 90 marks in total. Above only gives 40.

Which Unicode Marks Are Used

Every mark comes from the Combining Diacritical Marks block, which runs from U+0300 to U+036F. Each code point is a real character defined by the standard, so the result pastes anywhere as ordinary plain text.

Marks above include the grave accent, acute accent, tilde and tiny superscript Latin letters. Marks below add dots, lines and hooks, while the smaller middle set draws horizontal strokes and slashes straight through each character.

The tool picks marks at random from each zone, so every single press of Regenerate gives a completely different pattern. Spaces are left clean, which keeps words separated and the text at least partly readable.

Glitch Font Copy and Paste: Where It Works

Glitch text is not a real font. It is standard letters plus stacked marks, so glitch font copy and paste works anywhere that accepts Unicode, including most apps and websites that already handle emoji well.

• Instagram: bio, display name, captions and comments; the username allows only letters, numbers, periods and underscores.
• TikTok: bio, display name, captions and comments.
• Discord: messages, nicknames, channel topics and server descriptions.
• X, Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp: posts, bios and messages.

Apps can change what they accept at any time, and some trim long strings of combining marks. Preview your text on a second device before using it in a bio or display name that matters.

Numbers and symbols can be glitched too, since the marks attach to any visible character. Only spaces and line breaks are skipped, so multi-line text such as a poem keeps its original layout after copying.

Choosing the Right Intensity

Intensity controls readability. At 1 or 2 marks per zone the words stay clear, which suits display names and short captions well. Above 8 the text becomes a dense tangle that works mainly as decoration.

The light preset uses just 1 mark per zone and medium uses 3, while heavy uses 8 for a strong horror look. Rising stacks 5 marks above only, and dripping hangs 5 marks below only.

For a Discord status or meme caption, a medium setting usually looks the best. For a spooky title or poster, go heavy but keep the phrase short, because long heavy lines overlap everything around them.

Removing Glitch Text

Paste any glitchy text into the input box and press Remove glitch from pasted text. The tool first decomposes each character and deletes all the combining marks, leaving only the plain text base letters underneath.

This works on zalgo text from any generator, since they nearly all use the same Unicode block. It is handy when a copied message or username is too messy to read, sort or search for.

Note that cleaning also strips genuine accents, so Café becomes Cafe. If your original text contains accented words, retype those letters after cleaning, or clean only the parts of the text that were actually glitched.

Accessibility and Moderation Caveats

Screen readers may announce every stacked mark, which makes glitch text hard to follow for blind and low-vision users. The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative explains why clear, readable text matters for everyone using the web.

Many online communities treat heavy zalgo as spam. Discord servers often run moderation bots that delete it, and some platforms quietly strip the marks from names automatically, so light glitch text survives far more often.

Older phones and computers may show empty boxes when their fonts lack a symbol. Keep glitch text fairly short, use low intensity for names, and never use it for information people actually need to read.

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