Zalgo Text Generator
Decorate your text with chaotic combining marks for the iconic glitchy 'zalgo' look. Browser-only.
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About Zalgo Text Generator
Zalgo text — sometimes called glitch text, demonic text, or scribbled text — appends multiple Unicode combining diacritical marks to each character, producing the visually corrupted look popularized by internet creepypastas. It's the same trick that makes text spill out of its line height into the rows above and below.
When to use it
- Adding chaotic emphasis to a social-media post for fun
- Decorating a Halloween-themed greeting
- Producing eye-catching display text for a creepy aesthetic
- Stress-testing how a renderer handles excessive combining marks
How it works
For each base character in your input, the generator appends a random selection from the Unicode Combining Diacritical Marks block (U+0300–U+036F). The combining marks stack above, below, and through the base character, producing the glitch effect. Intensity controls how many marks are appended per character.
Examples
A medium-intensity zalgofication
Hello
H̷̳̳̾e̷̢͆l̸̛̮̱̬l̷̘̬̃o̶͚͂
Frequently asked questions
- Will it render the same everywhere?
- No. Some fonts and renderers cap how many combining marks they stack. The output will look glitchier in browsers with full Unicode support; constrained environments may flatten the effect.
- Is the original text recoverable?
- Yes — strip the combining marks (U+0300–U+036F) and you have the original. Use the remove-accents tool to do this in one step.
- Will it work in social-media posts?
- Most platforms render the combining marks, but a few collapse or strip them. Long zalgo posts can also break line spacing in feeds — use sparingly.
- Is it accessible?
- No. Screen readers read each combining mark, producing a long unreadable string. Avoid for any text users actually need to consume.