Zalgo Glitch Text Generator (Cursed Text)

Zalgo text, also called glitch, cursed or creepy text, piles combining marks on top of, through and under every letter so the words look like they are dripping or breaking apart. The marks are real Unicode characters designed for accents, so the effect survives copy and paste into chats, comments, usernames that allow it, and video titles. Choose how wild it gets, which directions to use, and fix a seed when you want the same result again.

How to use this tool

1. Type the text you want to corrupt.
2. Pick an intensity, or Custom for an exact number of marks per letter.
3. Untick above, through or below to control where the marks go.
4. Copy the result. To undo zalgo text you received, paste it and choose “Clean”.

Formula

Zalgo character = letter + n₁ marks above + n₂ marks through + n₃ marks below, chosen at random from three pools of combining diacritics

The marks come from Combining Diacritical Marks (U+0300–U+036F) plus U+0489. Mini adds 0–3 above, 0–1 through and 0–3 below each letter; Normal 1–8, 0–2 and 1–8; Maximum 3–18, 1–4 and 3–18. Spaces, emoji, flags and keycaps are left alone. Cleaning removes every combining mark when the text has letters with three or more stacked marks; letters typed as one accented character (é) are kept. Text without such stacks is composed first (e + ◌́ becomes é), so normal accents survive.

Example

With the Normal level, the sample “He comes” (7 letters) gets about 7 × (4.5 + 1 + 4.5) ≈ 70 combining marks, roughly ten per letter. With the seed set to 1 it gets 62: H̴̍̋͆͂̔̚҉̰̝̭̤è̟̗̮̅͠ c͉̣̤͉ͩ͂͑̉̏͘͟ö͈̹́̃ṃ̷͇̊̄e̸̜̗͔̦͕̱͙͇̓ͣ͛̾͡s̞̬̜̭̩̼̱̲ͣ͛. Without a seed every run gives a different pattern.