Zalgo Text Generator

What is zalgo text?

Zalgo text takes its name from a 2004 creepypasta - a corruption that spreads through comics and chat logs, announced by the line "He comes". The visual came from a discovery about Unicode: combining diacritical marks, the accents and hooks that normally attach to a single letter, can be stacked without limit, and most renderers draw every one of them. Pile twenty on a letter and the line grows fangs above and drips below.

This page is the glitch text generator opened on its zalgo preset: intensity 70, marks above, through and below. Drag the slider up to 100 for the fully buried "he comes" look, or down for a readable haunting. The zone toggles switch off a direction; Randomize re-rolls the marks for the same text.

The output is text. It copies and pastes anywhere that accepts Unicode, and it is generated in your browser - nothing is uploaded.

What to know about zalgo text

• Every mark is a separate character. A ten-letter word at full intensity is a few hundred characters, which is why zalgo overflows character limits fast.
• Some platforms cap how many combining marks they render per letter (X and Discord among them), so the drip is shorter there than in the preview.
• The base letters are untouched - a screen reader still reads the word, followed by a long run of "combining" announcements. Keep zalgo out of anything someone needs to hear.
• The marks are seeded from your text and the slider position, so the same input always gives the same zalgo; Randomize changes the seed.

Zalgo text examples

Common zalgo mistakes

• Pasting full-intensity zalgo into a display name. Names have a line height; the marks get cut to a stubble and the name reads as broken.
• Forgetting the character count. Each mark is a character, so a zalgo tweet can be over the limit at ten letters.
• Using zalgo where plain text must be parsed - a form field, a filename, a code comment. The marks are real characters and break things.

Zalgo text FAQ