Zalgo Text Generator

This Zalgo text generator turns ordinary text into the glitchy, "cursed" style that seems to spill above and below the line. It works by stacking Unicode combining diacritical marks — accents designed to sit on top of, through or under a letter — onto every character, so the result can be copied and pasted anywhere that accepts Unicode text.

People use it for horror-themed posts, game and Discord usernames, Halloween captions, memes and creepypasta, and designers use it to stress-test how an app copes with tall, overlapping text. Choose how many marks to add per letter and whether they go above, through or below the characters. A seed makes the output repeatable: the same text and seed always produce the same Zalgo.

The remove mode does the reverse, stripping combining marks to recover readable text from Zalgo you have been sent. Be aware it also removes legitimate accents that are typed as separate combining marks. Heavy Zalgo can be hard to read, is read out character by character by screen readers, and is sometimes filtered by platforms, so use it sparingly.

Unicode combining characters attach to the character before them instead of taking up their own space. Zalgo text is made by appending many of them to each visible character. The generator draws marks at random from three groups in the Combining Diacritical Marks block (U+0300–U+036F): marks that render above the letter, marks that overlay or strike through it, and marks that render below it.

For every non-space character it adds exactly the chosen number of marks from each enabled group, so the count is predictable even though the choice of marks is random. The random choice comes from a seeded generator, so the same text and seed always give the same result. Remove mode deletes every code point in the common combining-mark blocks, which is how Zalgo is cleaned.