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A free zalgo text generator and glitch font generator: stack combining marks on every letter until the text starts to come apart. Turn the intensity dial for anything from a faint tremor to full corruption.
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This is a glitch text generator, better known to some people as a zalgo text generator and to others as a glitch font generator. No font is involved. It hangs combining accent marks off each letter, dozens deep, until the word breaks out of its own line. It lives alongside the other generators at https://cursivee.app.
The same tool answers to a corrupted text generator, a distorted text generator, a creepy text generator and a scary text generator. The intensity dial is what separates them in practice: a low setting reads as unease, a high one reads as damage. Searches for glitchy text, broken text generator or messed up text all want the same control.
It is not a visual effect. A glitch effect generator or glitch image generator produces a picture — datamoshing, scan lines, RGB shift — and none of that survives being pasted as text. This produces characters, so it travels anywhere plain text is allowed, but it cannot be animated, coloured, or turned into an image. If you need a moving glitch effect, you need a video tool, not this page.
It is ordinary text with combining accent marks stacked on it far past any sane depth. The marks are the same ones that build á, ñ and ç — there are just dozens per letter instead of one, so they pile up and spill over the line. The name comes from a 2000s internet horror meme; the technique is pure Unicode.
Two different causes. Some apps clip anything overflowing the line box, so the marks are still there but hidden. Others actively strip combining characters, which permanently flattens the text. Light and Medium survive far more places than Maximum.
Yes, and dramatically so. Every mark is a real character. At maximum intensity a single letter can cost thirty of them, so a short bio can blow past a 150-character limit while looking no longer on screen.
Deliberately. The randomness is seeded, so the corruption holds still while you edit instead of reshuffling on every keystroke. Press Re-scramble for a different roll of the same settings.
Glitch text looks like something's gone wrong with your screen. 👁️ Nothing has. Every one of those marks crawling over the letters is a completely normal character, doing exactly what it's meant to do — attaching itself to the letter in front of it.
That's what makes it different from a corrupted file. This isn't a failure, it's the rules being followed a little too enthusiastically. 🧩 Unicode says a letter can carry accent marks. It never says how many, because nobody imagined anyone would ask for forty. So your browser adds forty, politely, and the result climbs out of its line and into the sentence above.
It's also why it misbehaves out in the wild. 🚧 The marks have no width, so the text grows up and down instead of sideways. It overlaps other lines, wrecks the spacing in a comment thread, and makes moderators twitchy. A lot of platforms just strip it, and it's hard to blame them.
So use the slider. 🎚️ Everyone's first instinct is to shove it to maximum, and maximum is the setting that gets filtered, cut off, or quietly flattened back into plain text. A light setting reads as unease. Medium reads as damage. Full corruption mostly reads as "why is my bio over the character limit".
And spare a thought for screen readers. 🔇 Zalgo is about the worst thing you can hand one: a stream of accent names with a word buried somewhere in the middle. Great in a caption. Genuinely rough anywhere people need to actually read you. The dial, and every other generator, is at https://cursivee.app.