Zalgo Text Generator — Glitch & Cursed Text Maker

Zalgo Text Generator — Glitch & Cursed Text Maker examples

How the zalgo text generator — glitch & cursed text maker works

1. Random combining diacritics are stacked above, through and below each character.
2. Intensity controls how many marks are added per character.
3. The output is plain Unicode you can paste into most apps.

Rules and edge cases

• Combining diacritical marks are stacked above, through and below each base character to create the glitch effect.
• The intensity setting controls how many marks are added per character, from lightly distorted to fully corrupted.
• The base letters are unchanged, so the text is still technically searchable and can be cleaned by removing combining marks.
• The Unicode converter's normalise mode strips these combining marks and restores the plain text.

Frequently asked questions

Why does Zalgo text overlap the lines around it?

Combining marks have no width of their own and are drawn outside the line box, so they spill into neighbouring lines. Reduce the intensity if the layout matters.

Do all platforms display Zalgo text?

Most do, but some apps limit the number of combining marks per character or strip them entirely as a spam defence, so heavy Zalgo can arrive partly cleaned.