Cursed Text Generator

How cursed text works

Cursed text, also called Zalgo or glitch text, is your normal letters with extra marks piled on them. The marks are combining characters from Unicode, the kind that put an accent on é. A letter can carry many of them, so they stack up above it, below it and through it, and spill over the lines nearby.

The letters underneath stay the same, so the words are still there. The tool leaves spaces plain, and typing more doesn't reshuffle the letters you already have.

Light, medium or heavy

Each strength adds a different number of marks to every letter:

• Cursed light: 1 or 2 marks above and at most 1 below. Still easy to read, good for a name.
• Cursed: 2 to 5 above, 2 to 4 below, sometimes one through the letter.
• Cursed heavy: 6 to 10 above, 5 to 9 below and 1 or 2 through. The letters almost disappear.

Why cursed text uses up character limits

Every mark is a character of its own. In Cursed heavy, each letter turns into 13 to 22 characters, so it fills a name or bio limit fast. A Discord display name, for example, allows 32 characters: if each mark counts, that's room for one or two heavy cursed letters.

For names, use Cursed light. Save the heavy version for a message or a post.

Where cursed text can break

Some apps remove extra marks or cut the text short, and long stacks can cover the lines above and below in a chat. If it looks wrong after you paste, try a lighter strength.

Screen readers read each mark, or skip the word, and search can't find cursed words. Keep anything people need to read in plain letters.

For your Discord name, see Discord fonts. For tiny letters, try the small text generator, and for every other style, the full list of copy and paste fonts.