Glitch text generator
Stacked combining marks, with the intensity under your control. This is the style most likely to break something.
Type in the bar at the bottom of the screen. Every style updates as you type. Hit Copy, then paste it wherever you want.
How this works
Unicode combining marks attach to the character before them instead of taking their own space, and nothing stops you attaching several. The generator inserts marks drawn from the above, below and overlay ranges after each letter, with the intensity setting deciding how many. Your visible text is unchanged underneath, which is why the result still copies and pastes as the words you typed.
What it cannot do
- Character count balloons. One visible letter can carry six or more invisible marks, so a field with a limit truncates far earlier than the text looks like it should.
- Marks stack upward and downward past the line box, and plenty of apps clamp line height, so the effect spills into the line above or gets clipped off.
- Some platforms strip combining marks outright as spam protection, and the paste simply arrives plain.
Polonius on madness, run through actual visual chaos.
The default line is William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Public domain, like every sample on this site.
Questions people actually ask
- Why does my glitch text get cut off?
- Each visible character carries several invisible combining marks, so a short-looking string can be several times longer than it appears. Anywhere with a character limit counts the marks too. Lower the intensity if a field keeps truncating you.
- Why does it overlap the line above?
- Combining marks stack vertically and most layouts reserve no room for them. Some apps clamp line height on top of that, which is why the marks spill into neighbouring lines or get sliced off at the top.
- Is it safe to put in a username?
- Often not. Several platforms treat heavy combining marks as abuse and either strip them or reject the name, and a few have suspended accounts over it. Use it in a message you can delete before you use it in a name you are stuck with.
Where this renders
| Mostly | Built from combining marks. Some apps trim them, clamp the line height, or count them against a character limit. | |
| tiktok | Mostly | Built from combining marks. Some apps trim them, clamp the line height, or count them against a character limit. |
| discord | Mostly | Built from combining marks. Some apps trim them, clamp the line height, or count them against a character limit. |
| Mostly | Usually renders, but LinkedIn has filtered unusual characters in some fields before, and styled text is unreadable to screen readers. | |
| X / Twitter | Mostly | Built from combining marks. Some apps trim them, clamp the line height, or count them against a character limit. |
These notes are inferred from how each Unicode block behaves, not from a per-platform test run. Treat them as guidance, not a guarantee.
One thing worth knowing
Screen readers announce these characters one by one, or skip them. A profile written entirely in styled text is unreadable to anyone using one. Keep your real name and key information in plain text.
