Glitch Text Generator

What this does

This turns ordinary words into distorted, corrupted-looking text, the kind that seems to be breaking apart or malfunctioning. Type your words, choose how messy you want them, and it spits out glitchy text you can copy and paste. It is the go-to for a cyberpunk, broken-screen, or horror vibe, where the text itself looks like it is falling apart.

How to use it

1. Type or paste your text into the box.
2. Set the options below to taste, then press Convert to generate the glitched version.
3. Copy the result, or press Convert again for a fresh take. Clear empties everything.

It all runs in your browser, so your text never leaves your device.

How the glitch effect is built

The distorted look is made by piling extra marks onto each of your letters. These are combining marks from the Unicode standard, the universal character set on every device, the same kind of marks used to add accents above and below letters in various languages. By stacking a stream of them on a single character, the letter appears to spill upward and downward, smeared and broken. The more marks, the more corrupted it looks.

One thing that follows from this: the effect is randomised, so each time you convert, the marks fall differently and you get a slightly different result. If you land on one you like, copy it before changing anything.

Controlling the chaos

You are in charge of how wild it gets. A set of toggles lets you choose where the marks go, on top of the letters, through the middle, along the bottom, or any mix of the three, so you can have the distortion reach up, hang down, or both. Alongside that, an intensity setting runs from a light touch up to a heavy load, with a maximum setting that drowns the text in marks for a truly broken look. Dial it low for a subtle flicker, or crank it up for full corruption.

Good to know

A few honest warnings so it behaves. At the higher intensities the marks reach far above and below the line and can spill into the text around them, which may get clipped or look untidy depending on where you paste it. Many platforms also limit or strip this kind of stacked text, and some apps remove the extra marks on paste, so always test your result in the target spot. And it goes without saying that this is decorative only: it is impossible for a screen reader to make sense of, and unreadable for many people, so never use it for anything that genuinely needs to be read.

Questions people ask

References

1. Unicode, Inc. Combining Diacritical Marks (Range 0300 to 036F). https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf