Glitch Text Generator Copy and Paste

That makes it behave differently from every other generator on this site. Heavier settings can slow an app down, some platforms delete it the moment you post, and a few cut the effect off at a fixed number of marks. This page has ten settings, and it says where each one survives.

How to Make Glitch Text in Four Steps

The tool updates as you type, so you can slide between settings and watch the same word get progressively more damaged. Most people find their level in about ten seconds. The step worth slowing down for is the last one, because glitch text is the style most likely to look perfect in the box you typed it into and arrive somewhere else completely different.

Step 1. Type the words you’ll actually post

Type the real phrase, not a test word. Length matters more here than with any other style, because every letter you add multiplies into several characters once the marks are attached. A short username behaves nothing like a full sentence. You want to see the real thing before you commit to it.

Step 2. Choose how heavy you want it

Ten settings run from barely broken to unreadable. The lighter end keeps your word legible and just makes it look damaged, which is what most people actually want. The heavy end stops being text and starts being a texture. Slide through them with your own words on screen before you decide.

Step 3. Copy it

One tap copies the whole line. Use the button, because a long press on a phone tends to grab a stray mark or drop the last one, and either changes how the word renders. Selecting glitch text by hand is genuinely awkward, since the marks make it unclear where one letter ends and the next begins.

Step 4. Check it where it’s going

Paste it into the real field and look at it before anyone else does. Composer previews lie, a desktop browser proves nothing about a phone, and this style has more ways to fail than anything else on this site. Test this first: paste into the actual app rather than a notes app, because the app is what decides whether your marks survive.

Glitch Text Styles, From Barely Broken to Unreadable

Light glitch

Barely broken. One or two marks per letter, enough to make the word look slightly wrong without costing you readability. This is the setting that survives the most places, because the mark count stays low enough that nothing clips it and no chat filter treats it as spam. It’s the right choice for a username or a bio line that still has to be read.

Ǵl̬̂ĩt̮̅c̆ḣ̲ÿ

Medium glitch, the classic zalgo look

This is the one people picture when they say zalgo. Marks stack several deep above and below, the word stays just about readable, and the line height starts pushing into the text around it. It’s the most-used setting and also the most-blocked, which matters before you paste it into a chat server. Our Discord font guide spells out what that platform does with it.

Ǵ̷̥̮̅l̸̶̬̰̂̆ĩ̴̷̭̲̇̊t̵̸̮̳̣̅̈̋c̶̰͓̆̉ḣ̷̵̲͙̊ÿ̸̶̳̣̋̏

Heavy glitch

Several marks deep in every direction. Your word survives as a shape rather than as something anyone reads quickly, and the lines above and below start getting covered. The trade-off is simple: every mark you add makes it look better and makes it work in fewer places. Heavy is roughly where apps begin clipping the effect instead of drawing all of it.

Ǵ̷̵̸̶̥̮̳̣̅̈̋l̸̶̴̷̬̰͓̤̂̆̉̌̑ĩ̴̷̵̸̭̲͙̥̮̇̊̍̽t̵̸̶̴̷̮̳̣̬̰̅̈̋̏̿c̶̴̷̵̸̰͓̤̭̲̆̉̌̑͛̂ḣ̷̵̸̶̲͙̥̮̊̍̽ÿ̸̶̴̷̳̣̬̰̋̏̿́

Maximum, cursed text territory

This is what most sites call cursed text. The marks run deep enough that the original word becomes a guess, and a paragraph of it will visibly slow some apps down while they try to draw it. This one bites: on older phones and inside some chat clients, a long line at this setting can freeze the input box entirely. Use it for one word, never for a sentence.

Ǵ̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̸̥̮̳̣̬̰͓̤̅̈̋̏̿́̅l̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̬̰͓̤̭̲͙̥̂̆̉̌̑͛̂̆̉ĩ̴̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̭̲͙̥̮̳̣̬̰̇̊̍̽̀̃̇̊t̵̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̮̳̣̬̰͓̤̭̲̅̈̋̏̿́̅̈̋c̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̰͓̤̭̲͙̥̮̳̆̉̌̑͛̂̆̉̌̑ḣ̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̲͙̥̮̳̣̬̰͓̤̊̍̽̀̃̇̊̍̽ÿ̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̳̣̬̰͓̤̭̲͙̥̋̏̿́̅̈̋̏̿

Creepy text, thin marks spread wide

Same mechanism, different selection. This setting favours the thin, spidery marks and spreads them wide across the word, so the whole thing lands as unsettling. It holds up better at small sizes than the dense settings do. If you want a dark look that stays fully readable, the gothic font generator swaps in a completely different alphabet.

Ǵ̂̃l̂̃̅̆ĩ̅̆̇̈t̅̆̇c̆̇̈̉ḣ̈̉̊̋ÿ̉̊

Corrupted text, dense and blocky

The data-error look. Marks are packed tight and low, so the word reads as damaged hardware, and it sits closer to what a broken display actually does. It’s popular for gaming names, where the aesthetic fits and the field is short enough to make the character cost obvious. Our PUBG font guide deals with what those name fields accept.

G̶̸̵̷̤̬̮̲l̷̴̶̸̥̭̰̳͙i̸̵̷̴̶̬̮̲͓̣ṱ̴̶̸̵̷̰̳͙̤̬c̵̷̴̶̸̵̮̲͓̣̥̭h̶̸̵̷̰̳͙̤y̷̴̶̸̲͓̣̥̭

Rising, above only

Marks go above the letters and nowhere else. The word stays fully readable on its own line and only interferes with whatever sits above it, which makes it one of the safest heavy-looking options. Use it where your text is the top line of a bio or the last line of a message. Dripping does the same job in the other direction.

Ǵ̂̃̅̆̇̈̉l̂̃̅̆̇̈̉̊̋ĩ̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍t̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̏̑c̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̏̑̽̿ḣ̈̉̊̋̌̍̏ÿ̉̊̋̌̍̏̑̽

Dripping, below only

Everything hangs underneath. This is the version that reads as melting or bleeding, and it works well when your text sits at the bottom of a block with space under it. Descenders take the worst of it, so a word containing a g, y or p looks heavier than one without. That’s why the sample word on this page ends in a y.

G̤̥̬̭̮̰̲̳l̥̬̭̮̰̲̳͓͙i̬̭̮̰̲̳͓͙̣̤ṱ̮̰̲̳͓͙̣̤̥̬c̮̰̲̳͓͙̣̤̥̬̭̮h̰̲̳͓͙̣̤̥y̲̳͓͙̣̤̥̬̭

Struck through, middle only

Marks land directly on the letters. This gives a scratched-out look without touching the lines above or below, which makes it the tidiest of the ten inside a tight layout. It’s also the one people most often read as a rendering fault. Keep it to short strings for that reason.

G̵̶l̶̷̸i̷̸̴̵t̸̴c̴̵̶h̵̶̷̸y̶̷

Mixed, randomised each time

Every letter gets a different amount, chosen at random, so no two runs come out the same. It looks more organic than the even settings, and it’s the closest thing here to genuine corruption. Press it twice and you get two different results, so copy the one you like before you change anything. For a different kind of Unicode trick, the upside down text generator turns your letters end over end.

G̸̶̶̵̵̵̴̤̥̰̳̳̊̌̉̈̀̌̍l̶̸̸̥̤͓̏̀͛̍i̴̴̸̵̵̷̵̸̴͙̮̬̥̽̽͛̇̈̌̑̆̌̂̆̊̀t̴̷̵̸̴̵̷̬̲̥̭̲͓̬̰̍̽́̈̇̃̿́̑̑̿̊̃̆̿ć̴̵̸̲̬͙̳̮̲́̍̊́̽̈̆ḫ̴̸̸̵̷̴̸̷̥̣̲̳̲̰̤̣̰̳͙̰̥̂̌̀̑̍̈̃y̷̤̋͛̀

Glitch Text Examples You Can Copy Right Now

Setting	Glitchy	Characters
Plain	Glitchy	7
Light	Ǵl̬̂ĩt̮̅c̆ḣ̲ÿ	17
Medium, zalgo	Ǵ̷̥̮̅l̸̶̬̰̂̆ĩ̴̷̭̲̇̊t̵̸̮̳̣̅̈̋c̶̰͓̆̉ḣ̷̵̲͙̊ÿ̸̶̳̣̋̏	51
Heavy	Ǵ̷̵̸̶̥̮̳̣̅̈̋l̸̶̴̷̬̰͓̤̂̆̉̌̑ĩ̴̷̵̸̭̲͙̥̮̇̊̍̽t̵̸̶̴̷̮̳̣̬̰̅̈̋̏̿c̶̴̷̵̸̰͓̤̭̲̆̉̌̑͛̂ḣ̷̵̸̶̲͙̥̮̊̍̽ÿ̸̶̴̷̳̣̬̰̋̏̿́	102
Maximum, cursed	Ǵ̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̸̥̮̳̣̬̰͓̤̅̈̋̏̿́̅l̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̬̰͓̤̭̲͙̥̂̆̉̌̑͛̂̆̉ĩ̴̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̭̲͙̥̮̳̣̬̰̇̊̍̽̀̃̇̊t̵̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̮̳̣̬̰͓̤̭̲̅̈̋̏̿́̅̈̋c̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̰͓̤̭̲͙̥̮̳̆̉̌̑͛̂̆̉̌̑ḣ̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̲͙̥̮̳̣̬̰͓̤̊̍̽̀̃̇̊̍̽ÿ̸̶̴̷̵̸̶̴̷̵̳̣̬̰͓̤̭̲͙̥̋̏̿́̅̈̋̏̿	196
Creepy	Ǵ̂̃l̂̃̅̆ĩ̅̆̇̈t̅̆̇c̆̇̈̉ḣ̈̉̊̋ÿ̉̊	34
Corrupted	G̶̸̵̷̤̬̮̲l̷̴̶̸̥̭̰̳͙i̸̵̷̴̶̬̮̲͓̣ṱ̴̶̸̵̷̰̳͙̤̬c̵̷̴̶̸̵̮̲͓̣̥̭h̶̸̵̷̰̳͙̤y̷̴̶̸̲͓̣̥̭	74
Rising	Ǵ̂̃̅̆̇̈̉l̂̃̅̆̇̈̉̊̋ĩ̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍t̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̏̑c̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̏̑̽̿ḣ̈̉̊̋̌̍̏ÿ̉̊̋̌̍̏̑̽	74
Dripping	G̤̥̬̭̮̰̲̳l̥̬̭̮̰̲̳͓͙i̬̭̮̰̲̳͓͙̣̤ṱ̮̰̲̳͓͙̣̤̥̬c̮̰̲̳͓͙̣̤̥̬̭̮h̰̲̳͓͙̣̤̥y̲̳͓͙̣̤̥̬̭	74
Struck through	G̵̶l̶̷̸i̷̸̴̵t̸̴c̴̵̶h̵̶̷̸y̶̷	27

Seven letters is what you typed. The number in the third column is what the platform counts, and it climbs fast enough that a heavy setting can fill an Instagram bio with a single word. That gap between what you see and what gets counted causes most of the problems further down this page.

Where Glitch Text Works, and Where It Gets Deleted

Rendering and permission are two different questions. Almost every modern app can draw these marks, and plenty of them will still remove your message for using them. The sections below cover both, and where a community publishes an actual rule about it, you’ll find the wording here.

Discord

Discord renders it perfectly and then, on a lot of servers, deletes it. AutoMod rules can match these characters by pattern, and ready-made rule sets for exactly this circulate publicly, so a server doesn’t need anyone technical to switch it on. Plenty of servers ban it in their written rules as well. Usernames also get forced to lowercase, which changes your output before anyone else sees it.

There’s one fix worth keeping. If a heavy paste freezes the message box so you can’t send it or clear it, select all and press backspace. It empties in one go where deleting by hand does nothing.

Minecraft

Minecraft has its own glitch effect built in, and it isn’t this one. A formatting code makes characters cycle constantly on screen, which is a genuinely different thing from stacked marks. It also works in places pasted text doesn’t, so it’s usually the better answer inside the game.

	Minecraft’s obfuscated code	Pasted glitch text
What it does	Characters cycle constantly	Marks stack on your letters
How you get it	Type §k before the text	Copy it from this page
Books and quills	Yes	Yes
Chat	Yes	Yes
Signs	No	No

The section symbol is typed with Alt and 21 on a Windows number pad. Java sign input rejects that symbol outright, so neither route gets you a glitched sign. For anything more involved, the tellraw command takes a JSON text component and gives you full control.

Roblox

One thing isn’t in dispute. Deliberately using characters to get past a text filter breaches Roblox’s terms, whatever the field happens to accept. That applies to every platform on this page.

Instagram and TikTok

Both render the marks in bios and captions. The character cost is the real limit here, because an Instagram bio holds 150 characters and one heavily glitched word can eat most of them. Search won’t match the styled version either, so keep anything you want found in plain text. Our Instagram font guide takes the fields one at a time.

Steam and gaming profiles

Steam profiles and most game clients render it without complaint, which makes them one of the friendlier homes for the heavier settings. Name fields are usually short, so the count matters more than the rendering does. Some reporting and moderation systems flag unusual character use in names, though nothing published confirms glitch text specifically.

Forums, wikis and comment sections

This is where it gets banned most consistently. Wiki and forum rules commonly prohibit it outright, and the reason is practical: heavy marks overflow into other people’s posts and make a thread hard to read. The clearest example is the wiki dedicated to the horror character this effect is named after. Its rules say “Do NOT post Zalgo text”, and warn that doing so will subject you to a ban. If the community built around the lore won’t allow it, most general forums won’t either.

What Glitch Text Actually Is, and Why It's Not a Font

Nothing here changes your letters. A glitch generator takes the word you typed and appends combining marks after each character, and the app you paste into draws those marks on top of, under or through the letter in front of them. Your G is still a G underneath. That one fact explains the removers, the search problem and the character cost all at once.

Glitch, zalgo, cursed, creepy, corrupted

Five words, one mechanism. They describe how heavy the effect is and what it’s being used for. That’s why each one appears here as a setting.

Word	What people usually mean	A different mechanism?
Glitch text	The general term, any intensity	No
Zalgo	The dense stacked look, named after a 2004 internet horror character	No
Cursed text	The heaviest end, often used as a joke	No
Creepy text	Thin marks spread wide, horror styling	No
Corrupted text	Dense and low, the broken-display look	No

Sites running a separate page for each of these words are running the same generator behind all of them. The output is identical and so is the code underneath. The words are marketing rather than categories.

How the marks stack

Combining marks are an ordinary part of Unicode and they exist for real languages. An accent over an e, a cedilla under a c, and the marks that Vietnamese, Arabic and dozens of other writing systems depend on. Each one is its own character that attaches to whatever came before it. Glitch text does nothing clever. It just attaches far more of them than any language ever would.

Where the name came from

Zalgo started in July 2004 on the Something Awful forums. Somebody began editing newspaper comic strips, Nancy and Archie first and Garfield soon after, replacing the dialogue with warnings about an approaching entity. The entity picked up titles along the way, including He Who Waits Behind the Wall, and a signature line: He comes. The stacked, overflowing text arrived as its visual signature and outlived the comics by two decades.

The thirty-mark ceiling

There’s a published limit, and it’s the reason apps cut the effect off. Unicode’s normalisation annex defines a Stream-Safe Text Format, which caps the marks following a single base character at thirty. The specification says plainly that thirty sits far beyond anything any language or technical use actually requires, and a separate standards paper puts the longest genuinely meaningful run at seventeen. So when a platform clips your text, it isn’t being arbitrary. It’s applying a rule that has a name and a number. Here is the ceiling: thirty marks per letter, after which software is entitled to stop drawing. Anything generated above that line is decoration you’re hoping gets rendered rather than text you can count on.

None of this is formatting. Pressing a bold button tells an app to draw a letter differently. Every generator on this site hands you different characters. Our bold text generator takes the swapping approach and this page takes the stacking approach, and both produce text that travels anywhere and obeys nobody.

Does Glitch Text Work Everywhere? No, and Here Is What Breaks

No, and the pages promising universal compatibility are the ones to be most careful with. Three separate things can go wrong. The marks can render differently, they can get clipped, or they can genuinely slow software down. Which one you run into depends on the setting you picked and the app you’re pasting into.

Which settings are actually safe

Light and the direction-only settings survive nearly everywhere. Medium is fine in most places and blocked in some. Heavy and maximum are where real problems start, and they’re best kept to a single word of decoration. The pattern is short enough to remember: mark count is risk.

Why it looks different on someone else’s screen

Your device draws these marks with whatever font it has installed. Two typefaces in common testing, Bitstream Vera Sans and DejaVu Sans, stack the marks into a neat vertical column, while most other fonts overlap them into a blur. So the same string can look carefully layered on your screen and like a smudge on someone else’s. The text itself is identical in both cases. Only the font drawing it changed.

When it lags or freezes

This is the part almost every other page leaves out, and all of it sits in public bug trackers. A code editor issue reports that pasting this text hangs the terminal, reproduced by the developers themselves. A chat client issue describes it causing font rendering to implode. A children’s programming site warns its users away from it on low-powered machines.

Where this fails, it fails expensively. In January 2022 the author of a widely used programming package deliberately added an infinite loop that printed this text forever, breaking installs across millions of projects overnight. Wikipedia’s entry on combining characters notes plainly that the technique can be used to halt or impair certain computer functions. That’s no reason to avoid the light settings, and it is a reason not to paste a heavy one into somebody’s terminal.

Text that isn’t English

Other writing systems take this badly. Languages that already use combining marks of their own, and scripts where letters join or reshape, end up with the added marks landing in the wrong place or breaking the joins entirely. A few generators advertise that they preserve other scripts, which tells you what the default behaviour is. Test a short string first if your text isn’t in English.

Quick fixes when something breaks

Three problems come up over and over, and each has a different answer. Two you can fix from your side and one you can’t. Work through them in order before assuming the tool is at fault.

• Empty rectangles instead of marks. The reading device is missing that character. Drop to a lighter setting.
• The effect looks sliced off at the top or bottom. The app is clipping the line height, and there’s nothing to change from your side.
• The message box freezes and won’t clear. Select all, then press backspace.

How to Remove Glitch Text and Get Plain Words Back

Which marks have to go

Five Unicode blocks hold these characters, and a complete remover has to clear all five. Most people never need the ranges themselves, but they matter if you’re choosing between cleaning tools. A remover handling only the first block will look like it worked and quietly leave marks behind. Here is what a complete job covers.

Block	Range
Combining Diacritical Marks	U+0300 to U+036F
Combining Diacritical Marks Extended	U+1AB0 to U+1AFF
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement	U+1DC0 to U+1DFF
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols	U+20D0 to U+20FF
Combining Half Marks	U+FE20 to U+FE2F

Why clearing one block isn’t enough

Most removers clear only the first row. That covers the marks European languages use, which is where the common ones live, but generators pull from all five blocks to get variety. A tool clearing one range leaves marks behind and looks like it half worked. No workaround exists from your side, so if cleaned text still looks wrong, the remover is the problem rather than your text.

Two reasons people need this

The first is receiving it. Somebody sends a glitched message, or a username you need to type won’t paste properly, and you just want the plain version. Fiction communities and programming forums both discuss this often enough that it’s clearly a common problem.

The second is undoing your own work. You generated something, posted it, and now want it plain, or you saved a name at a heavy setting and it keeps getting clipped. Paste it back in, remove the marks, and your original word comes out unchanged. Nothing is lost, because nothing was ever replaced.

Keeping It Readable, and Who It Shuts Out

Two different questions sit inside readability. One is whether a sighted person can still make out the word, which the intensity settings handle. The other is whether the text works at all for somebody using assistive software, and that one has an uncomfortable answer.

Keep it to a few words

A username, a bio line, one word inside a message. That’s the range where this style does its job properly. Past that it stops being emphasis and turns into texture, and the reader either skips it or gives up. The one-word habit also happens to keep you under every platform’s clipping threshold.

What screen readers do with it

Screen reading software has no good option here. A public accessibility discussion describes it stuttering through the marks, reading nonsense, and severely hindering navigation for the people who depend on it. Two of the more honest generator sites say the same thing. One well-known generator page claims screen readers announce the underlying letters without trouble, which contradicts the reports coming from people actually using them.

Until that test happens, this page assumes the worse outcome. Keep anything a person genuinely needs in plain text, and treat glitch text as decoration that some readers will never receive. Our aesthetic font generator shares this caveat for the same reason, since both rely on characters assistive software was never built to narrate.

Search won’t find it

A search box matches characters in order. The marks sit between your letters in the underlying data, so a search for your word never lines up with the styled version even though every letter is still present. This is the detail that’s easy to get half right. The base letters do survive, which is exactly why removers work, but they aren’t next to each other any more, so the match fails.

That makes the rule straightforward. Anything you want found stays plain, meaning your name, your handle, the thing you do and any hashtag. Decoration can be as broken as you like.

Don’t use it to get past word filters

This gets recommended online and it’s a poor idea in every direction. Platform terms treat deliberate filter evasion as a violation regardless of the method, so the outcome is the same whether the trick works or not. Moderation tools already decode it, and at least one remover is marketed directly at moderators for that job. Before you post it, be clear about which side of that line you’re standing on.

Why Use Fonti’s Glitch Text Generator

Plenty of pages generate this. Most run separate URLs for identical output and stay quiet about what breaks. Here’s what’s different about this one.

• Ten settings, labelled by intensity. Zalgo, cursed, creepy and corrupted are all here, described as what they actually are.
• Direction controls. Above, below and through, each on its own, which most tools don’t separate.
• A remover built in. Paste glitched text and get plain words back, with all five mark blocks cleared.
• A live character count. You watch the number climb as you turn the setting up, and that number is what every platform limit measures.
• It says where it breaks. Chat servers delete it, wikis ban it, and heavy settings can slow apps down. All of that is on this page.
• It can’t promise your reader sees what you see. Fonts differ and apps clip differently, and no generator anywhere can change that.
• It runs in your browser. Nothing gets uploaded, because there’s nothing to upload.

The tool sits at the top of the page whenever you want it. Type your words, slide through the ten settings, and copy the one that survives wherever you’re heading. There’s nothing to install and no account to make.