Free Glitch Text Generator Online – Zalgo & Cursed Text

Make Zalgo and cursed text with adjustable marks

A glitch text generator makes letters look as if a message is breaking up. The effect comes from Unicode combining marks, which are characters that a renderer positions around another character. Put a few above and below a word and the outline stays readable. Add a mark through the middle and the word starts to look scratched or interrupted. The text can still be selected and copied, which makes it useful for a spooky title, a mock signal error, or a short line of dialogue in a game.

Zalgo and cursed text are common names for different degrees of the same effect. Try the four presets on the same phrase to see the difference. Mild adds a single mark above an eligible character. Glitch uses the top and middle of the line. Corrupted adds room below the baseline, and Cursed uses the densest setting in this tool. You can then move Intensity or change Above, Through, and Below individually. Those switches determine where the tool can place marks, while the slider controls how many it attempts to use.

Choose a phrase with a recognizable silhouette

Type “Signal lost” or “Door 7” and compare the plain letters with a lightly distorted preview. A short phrase is easier to recognize when you add marks to every letter. If the words themselves carry important instructions, write them once in ordinary text and use the effect on a separate label. For a longer caption, a stylized opening word can carry the mood without making the whole caption harder to read.

How to make glitch text online

1. Enter your phrase in Your text. The preview updates as you type, including when you add another line.
2. Choose Mild, Glitch, Corrupted, or Cursed. Start with Mild to see what the original shape looks like with a few marks.
3. Adjust Intensity and try the three placement switches. Turn off Below if the result will sit close to another line. Try Through by itself for a narrower effect across the middle.
4. Use Letter style if you want a different base alphabet. Reverse changes the order within each line and Space letters adds room between neighboring characters.
5. Choose Randomize to change the selection of marks while keeping your input and settings. When the preview looks right, use Copy text, Download TXT, Download PNG, or Copy share link.

To start over, Clear empties the input and Reset restores the example and its starting settings. Clean marks removes common Latin accents and supported distortion marks from the input, then sets the intensity to zero so you can see what remains. If your phrase includes a name with an accent you want to keep, save the original spelling before using Clean marks. The control operates on what you entered, so it cannot recover a missing letter or reverse an unrelated font substitution.

Set the direction of the effect

Placement changes the character of the result even at the same intensity. Marks above a short phrase can look like sparks. A row of marks below it creates a rough edge, while the strokes through a letter resemble a faulty signal or an erasure. If a platform shows very tight line spacing, you can use Through alone. If that obscures the center of a word, switch to Above and use one or two marks instead.

Glitch font copy and paste for names and captions

Use Copy text for a destination that accepts text characters. The clipboard receives the displayed letters and their marks. An ordinary paste can carry those marks, but the destination decides how to draw them. A chat preview may show the effect as expected while an account name clips the top, strips marks, or rejects the string. Try a small test in the intended field before replacing a name that people search for. The fancy text troubleshooting guide covers other reasons a result can change after pasting.

Download TXT keeps the result editable and preserves its line breaks. Download PNG captures the effect as a still image, which can be useful if the destination cannot display the marks or if you want to place the phrase on a graphic. Invert colors switches to pale lettering on a dark background. Choose Transparent PNG to remove the fill and check how the lettering looks over the surface you intend to use. When the words matter, keep them in the caption or provide them as an image description. The picture preserves how the lettering was drawn, while the text version is easier to edit and search.

Why a short phrase can hit a character limit

A visible letter with five combining marks can still occupy the space of one character to your eye, while the destination may count the base and its marks separately. Shorten the phrase or lower the intensity if you run into a length restriction. Some destinations also normalize text or remove unusual marks. Repeatedly copying a result cannot override a destination's formatting and length rules.

How this Unicode glitch generator handles input

The tool groups input into the units people read as characters. That lets a family emoji, a flag, or a letter that already has an accent travel together instead of being split during reversal or spacing. Decoration applies to eligible single letters and numbers. Existing clusters such as emoji and letters that already contain combining marks are preserved, which avoids repeatedly stacking corruption on top of an already decorated character. Intensity is bounded and the tool caps the number of marks it adds in each position.

The base alphabet is a separate choice. With Plain, you can compare the effect without also changing the letter shapes. Bold, Monospace, and Blackletter substitute letters where the selected Unicode alphabet has a match. For more decorative alphabets and styled text, try the Fancy Text Generator. For type that looks handwritten, use the cursive handwriting tool.

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