Glitch Text Generator

How to use the Glitch Text Generator

1. Type or paste your text into the input panel on the left, or click “Try sample” to see an example instantly.
2. Choose your intensity — select Mild, Medium, Heavy, or Extreme from the toolbar. Mild adds a subtle shimmer; Extreme makes your text tower with stacked marks.
3. Toggle mark zones — enable or disable marks above, through the middle, or below your text using the options at the bottom.
4. Copy your glitched text with the copy button at the top right of the output panel, then paste anywhere — Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and more.

What is glitch text (Zalgo)?

Glitch text — commonly called Zalgo text — works by stacking Unicode combining diacritical marks on top of ordinary characters. These combining characters are designed to modify the glyph they follow: accents, dots, bars, and other marks that attach above or below a letter. Stacking dozens of them on a single character causes the marks to overflow the normal line bounds, creating a chaotic, glitchy visual effect.

The name “Zalgo” comes from an early internet horror meme, where corrupted and overflowing text became associated with a fictional eldritch entity. The aesthetic caught on and spread across forums, social media, and creative writing communities as a way to signal dread, chaos, or irony.

Unlike special fonts or image-based effects, Zalgo text is pure Unicode — it can be copied and pasted into any text field that renders Unicode properly. The base characters remain intact and readable; only the visual rendering is distorted.

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