How the Corrupted Look Is Built
Unicode allows combining marks to be attached to a base character. A glitch generator inserts several of them — strikes, tildes, diacritics — around each letter and relies on the renderer to stack them. There is no single glitch alphabet; the appearance is an emergent side effect of how a font positions those marks.
Why It Looks Different Everywhere
Placement rules are implemented by the font and the text shaper, so the same string can be tidy in a desktop browser and chaotic in a mobile app. Heavy stacks also push into neighbouring lines, which is why moderation tools on some servers discourage them.
- Keep glitch strings to a few words; long ones become unreadable.
- Do not use them in channel names, rules or anything people must read quickly.
- Screen readers may announce each mark separately, so avoid them in essential information.
- Test the result on iOS and Android before posting it in a shared server.
Before You Paste It
Because the underlying letters are ordinary ASCII with marks attached, these strings behave differently from substituted alphabets: a plain-letter search may still match the base characters, but the visual noise makes them a poor choice for an identity. Treat glitch text as a short-lived joke or a reaction, not as a name you want people to remember or type.
For a calmer way to cross out a word, the upside down text converter flips letters instead of stacking marks.
Each family below has its own page with coverage notes and a character counter. The main converter shows all of them at once if you would rather compare across families.