Glitch font generator

This is a glitch font generator — though "font" is a slight misnomer people use anyway. There's no font file involved. What actually happens is that every visible character in your text gets extra invisible Unicodecombining marksattached to it — small accent-like symbols that stack above, through, or below the base letter instead of taking up their own space. Enough of them stacked together and the text reads as corrupted, glitched, or "cursed."

Because it's just Unicode text and not an image or a special font, the output works anywhere text works: Instagram bios and captions, Discord messages and nicknames, WhatsApp statuses, Roblox and Minecraft usernames, TikTok captions, tweets, or a plain text file. Copy it once, paste it wherever.

Most glitch text generators give you a single "craziness" knob, if they give you any control at all. This one splits intensity into the three zones combining marks actually occupy — above, through, and below the character — because they don't all behave the same way. Marks above and below are mostly decorative and render reliably almost everywhere. Marks through the character (strikethrough-style overlays) are the ones most likely to turn into a box or get trimmed on an older device, so keeping "through" low is the single best move if you want heavy-looking glitch text that still pastes cleanly.

The renderability badge under the output updates live and gives you a plain-language read on that trade-off — it's an estimate based on how many marks are stacked per character, not a guarantee for every app on every device, but it's the same real signal every "will this break" question in the FAQ below is actually asking about.

Depending on where you first saw this effect, you might call it azalgo text generator, a cursed text generator, a corrupted text generator, or just a glitch text generator. They're all the same underlying Unicode technique with different community framing — "zalgo" comes from a mid-2000s creepypasta horror meme, "cursed" and "corrupted" lean into meme culture, and "glitch" is the more general, aesthetic-focused name that's become the common search term. This tool works the same way under all of those names — see the full breakdown onglitch vs. zalgo vs. cursed text.

To be direct about the limits: this tool does not guarantee your text will render identically on every device — Unicode combining marks are drawn by the operating system's own text engine, so spacing varies slightly between iOS, Android, Windows and Linux. It also won't make text bypass a platform's actual content moderation (glitching a word doesn't hide its meaning from most modern filters), and it isn't a tattoo-design tool — if you're looking for lettering to show a tattoo artist, you want a visual lettering generator, not Unicode text. And heavy "through" intensity can get trimmed in short fields like usernames, which is exactly what the renderability badge is for.

Glitch and zalgo are the flagship here, but the same client-side engine also generatesfancy,cursive,bold, and bubbletext using a completely different Unicode mechanism (character substitution instead of combining marks) — see the full list on the styles page.