Zalgo Text and Fancy Text: two Unicode text toys that are not fonts (and a remover for the cursed kind)

Most of Omikuji Tools started in Japanese. Two text tools went out in 12 languages from day one, because they do not depend on language at all: the Zalgo Text Generator and the Fancy Text Generator. Neither one is a font. Both produce plain Unicode characters, which is why the result survives copy and paste into places that do not let you choose a font.

Zalgo Text Generator: three sliders control the marks above, through and below each letter

Zalgo: combining marks, stacked

Zalgo text is ordinary text with Unicode combining marks piled onto each character. The generator draws from three pools: 49 marks that rise above the letter, 8 that strike through it, and 40 that drip below. Each has its own slider (0 to 15), and there are three presets: Whisper, Erosion and Abyss. Spaces and line breaks are left alone so lines do not fall apart.

The pattern is not random each time. A seed is derived from your text and the slider values, so the same input and settings always give the same output; Regenerate changes the pattern on purpose.

The page also has an Uncurse tab. Standard mode removes only marks from the generator's pools and keeps legitimate combinations such as é or the Japanese dakuten (゛); Remove all strips every combining mark. The page counts visible characters against actual code points, which is worth a look before you post: "Something is watching you" at the default settings is 25 visible characters but 215 code points.

Fancy Text: 22 styles at once

Type once and see 22 styles side by side: bold, italic, script, fraktur, double-struck, monospace, circled, squared, fullwidth, small caps, upside down, strikethrough and more. These are mostly Unicode's "mathematical alphanumeric symbols" and enclosed letters. Each style carries a badge (◎ ○ △) estimating how safely it renders on Instagram, X, TikTok and Discord, because the usual failure is a row of □ on someone else's phone.

Features

  • Zalgo: generator and remover on one page, three sliders plus presets, deterministic output
  • Fancy Text: 22 styles previewed together, compatibility badges, one-tap copy
  • Screen readers cannot read either kind well, and both pages say so; use them for names and accents
  • Everything runs in your browser; your text is not sent anywhere

👉 Zalgo Text Generator & Remover 👉 Fancy Text Generator

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