Turn any word into a shaky letters font: broken, static and trembling Unicode text — paste it anywhere without Markdown or plugins.
Style library
Broken text adds Unicode combining marks to each letter to simulate a signal that's degrading, shaking or losing coherence — like a transmission losing integrity rather than fully failing. The three styles here cover a range: Broken uses a medium-weight zalgo stack, Shaky adds a single light accent mark above each letter for a subtle vibration feel, and Strikethrough draws a clean line through each character for a "crossed out" look.
Both use Unicode combining marks, but at different intensities and with different framing. Glitch text sits at a medium-to-high intensity designed to look like a corrupted display. Broken text uses a similar mechanism at a slightly lower intensity — the idea is a signal that's failing gradually, not all at once. Shaky text goes even lighter, adding just one tiny accent mark per letter for a barely-there tremor effect.
No font is used at all. Shaky letters are created with Unicode combining marks — tiny accent characters added above each normal letter. Every app that supports Unicode displays the result as trembling text, so the "font" works anywhere without installing anything. It's the same trick used for the other styles on this site, just with a lighter mark per character.
Yes — all three styles produce plain Unicode that pastes anywhere. The Shaky style is the safest option across all platforms since it adds only one mark per character. The Broken style works well on Discord, Twitter/X and most social platforms; very constrained text fields (some game lobbies) may trim some marks on the heaviest option.
Not directly in this tool, but you can copy a result from another page — say Wide text or Bold — paste it into the input box here, and run broken marks on top of it. The combining marks apply to whatever characters are in the input, so stacking is possible manually.
A shaky letters font is a Unicode character style that makes normal text look unsteady — like each letter is trembling or vibrating slightly. This page's Shaky style adds one small combining accent mark above every character, which renders as a barely-there tremor effect that stays subtle enough to remain readable. Because the shaky letters are plain Unicode text rather than an installed font, they copy and paste into any app — Discord, game bios, social captions — and keep their shaky look everywhere, with no font file to download.
A broken text generator adds Unicode combining marks to your letters to simulate text that's degrading, shaking or corrupted — like a broadcast losing signal or a display starting to fail. This page offers three levels: Broken (medium zalgo stacking for a clear corrupted look), Shaky (one light accent mark per letter for a subtle tremor effect), and Strikethrough (a clean line through each character). All three produce plain Unicode text, so the result copies and pastes anywhere without needing Markdown support.
Related styles like glitch text and distorted text use the same underlying Unicode technique with different mark sets and intensities. Broken text occupies the middle ground — more dramatic than shaky, more controlled than full glitch or creepy.
Broken (this page) uses a medium-intensity zalgo stack that reads as failing rather than fully failed. Shaky (also this page) applies just one light accent mark per letter — the subtlest corrupted look on the site. Glitch uses a higher-intensity stack with a "corrupted display" framing. Distorted uses horizontal overlay marks instead of vertical combining marks, for a scrambled rather than shaking effect. Creepy goes heaviest of all, with a demonic or satanic-level stacking. All five are copyable Unicode — the right choice depends on how far gone you want the text to look.