Glitch Symbols to Copy and Paste

Tap a tile to copy it: shade blocks, placeholder boxes, control pictures, static, error signs and symbols under stacked marks.

Glitch Symbols to Copy and Paste

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146 symbols. Tap one to copy it.

Shade blocks 14

Placeholders 7

Control pictures 39

Broken lines 15

Braille static 11

Warning and error signs 14

Glitched symbols 30

Glitch strings 16

Next step Type ░ ▒ ▓ █ on a keyboard: Alt 176, 177, 178 and 219Name frames, clan tag brackets and rank tags

How it works

146 glitch symbols, from ░▒▓ shade blocks to ten symbols under stacked marks. None is broken: all are real Unicode characters, and the list below says what each is. Some apps strip or block these characters, and screen readers may read them badly.

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Boxes that stand for something missing

The box drawn when no font has a character is nicknamed tofu. ▯ is that shape as a character of its own; ⍰ is a sign from the APL programming language. The 39 Control pictures are visible stand-ins for codes such as null and escape: ␀ copies as a picture, never as the code.

Blocks, static and stacked marks

Shade blocks come from the Block Elements block: Unicode notes ░ ▒ ▓ as 25%, 50% and 75% fills, and █ as solid. Broken lines are Box Drawing dashes and diagonals. Braille static is ⣿, the eight Braille Patterns one dot short of it, and two checkers. The 30 tiles under marks are ten symbols at 2, 4 and 8 Combining Diacritical Marks, never more.

Tips
  • Search knows the control codes: esc finds 3 tiles, delete 4 and nul 2.
  • In Glitch strings, ▓▒░ name ░▒▓ copies with the word name inside: paste it, then type over the word.
  • A heavy glitch tile carries 8 marks that rise and fall past the line, so give it its own line.

Questions and answers

What is the glitch symbol?

There is no single one. The nearest is �, the replacement character, which software writes in place of a character it could not read. For the look of a failing screen, fade the shade blocks into each other, as in █▓▒░, or stack marks on a symbol.

OBJ symbol copy and paste: why does the tile look empty?

OBJ is U+FFFC, the object replacement character: it marks where a picture or other object sits in text. Unicode gives it no visible shape: the chart's dashed box holding OBJ is a label. On our Mac, Arial drew that box and the system font nothing.

How do I make glitched symbols of my own?

Each of the 30 here is one symbol followed by 2, 4 or 8 combining marks, picked once and stored. To stack marks on your own words and set how many land on each letter, use the zalgo text generator.

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All 146 symbols

Shade blocks 14

  • Dark shade U+2593 Dark shade. Block Elements block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode notes it as a 75% fill.
  • Full block U+2588 Full block. Block Elements block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode also calls it solid: the 100% that the three shades lead up to.
  • Light shade U+2591 Light shade. Block Elements block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode notes it as a 25% fill.
  • Medium shade U+2592 Medium shade. Block Elements block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode notes it as a 50% fill and also calls it speckles fill.
  • Quadrant lower left U+2596 Quadrant lower left. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant lower right U+2597 Quadrant lower right. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper left U+2598 Quadrant upper left. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper left and lower left and lower right U+2599 Quadrant upper left and lower left and lower right. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper left and lower right U+259A Quadrant upper left and lower right. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower left U+259B Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower left. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower right U+259C Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower right. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper right U+259D Quadrant upper right. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper right and lower left U+259E Quadrant upper right and lower left. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
  • Quadrant upper right and lower left and lower right U+259F Quadrant upper right and lower left and lower right. Block Elements block, Unicode 3.2.
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Placeholders 7

  • APL functional symbol quad U+2395 APL functional symbol quad. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 3.0. An APL programming sign that is a plain upright box; Unicode cross-refers it to the white vertical rectangle.
  • Geta mark U+3013 Geta mark. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. Japanese printing uses it as a substitute for an ideograph the font does not have, Unicode notes. Comes in a full-width cell.
  • OBJ, the object replacement character U+FFFC Object replacement character. Specials block, Unicode 2.1. A placeholder that marks where a picture or other object sits in a run of text. It has no shape of its own: the Unicode chart shows a dashed box holding the letters OBJ, its sign for a character with nothing to draw. When we tested, Arial drew that box and the Mac system font drew nothing at all, so this tile may look empty and still copy.
  • Question mark in a box U+2370 APL functional symbol quad question. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 1.1. A sign from the APL programming language that happens to look like a missing-character box. Unlike a real missing character it shows the same box on every device.
  • Replacement character U+FFFD Replacement character. Specials block, Unicode 1.1. The character software writes in place of one it could not read: Unicode calls it the general substitute character. It is often drawn as a question mark in a diamond. Pasted on purpose it looks like broken text and is perfectly valid text.
  • Tofu box, the white vertical rectangle U+25AF White vertical rectangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The small upright rectangle that many systems draw when no font has a character, nicknamed tofu. This one is a character in its own right, so it stays a box everywhere.
  • White square U+25A1 White square. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode notes that it may be used to represent a missing ideograph.

Control pictures 39

  • Blank symbol U+2422 Blank symbol. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode notes it as a graphic for the space.
  • Open box U+2423 Open box. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode notes it as a graphic for the space.
  • Symbol for acknowledge U+2406 Symbol for acknowledge. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0006, acknowledge (ACK). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for backspace U+2408 Symbol for backspace. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0008, backspace (BS). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for bell U+2407 Symbol for bell. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0007, alert (BEL). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for cancel U+2418 Symbol for cancel. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0018, cancel (CAN). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for carriage return U+240D Symbol for carriage return. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+000D, carriage return (CR). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for data link escape U+2410 Symbol for data link escape. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0010, data link escape (DLE). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for delete U+2421 Symbol for delete. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+007F, delete (DEL). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for delete form two U+2425 Symbol for delete form two. Control Pictures block, Unicode 3.0. A second form of the delete picture: Unicode notes it as the keyboard symbol for undoable delete, from ISO/IEC 9995-7.
  • Symbol for device control four U+2414 Symbol for device control four. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0014, device control four (DC4). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for device control one U+2411 Symbol for device control one. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0011, device control one (DC1). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for device control three U+2413 Symbol for device control three. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0013, device control three (DC3). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for device control two U+2412 Symbol for device control two. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0012, device control two (DC2). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for end of medium U+2419 Symbol for end of medium. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0019, end of medium (EOM). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for end of text U+2403 Symbol for end of text. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0003, end of text (ETX). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for end of transmission U+2404 Symbol for end of transmission. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0004, end of transmission (EOT). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for end of transmission block U+2417 Symbol for end of transmission block. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0017, end of transmission block (ETB). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for enquiry U+2405 Symbol for enquiry. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0005, enquiry (ENQ). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for escape U+241B Symbol for escape. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+001B, escape (ESC). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for file separator U+241C Symbol for file separator. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+001C, information separator four (FS). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for form feed U+240C Symbol for form feed. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+000C, form feed (FF). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for group separator U+241D Symbol for group separator. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+001D, information separator three (GS). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for horizontal tabulation U+2409 Symbol for horizontal tabulation. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0009, character tabulation (HT). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for line feed U+240A Symbol for line feed. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+000A, line feed (LF). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for negative acknowledge U+2415 Symbol for negative acknowledge. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0015, negative acknowledge (NAK). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for newline U+2424 Symbol for newline. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. One picture for a newline, the break at the end of a line. New line (NL) is among the names NameAliases.txt gives the control code U+000A.
  • Symbol for null U+2400 Symbol for null. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0000, null (NUL). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for record separator U+241E Symbol for record separator. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+001E, information separator two (RS). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for shift in U+240F Symbol for shift in. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+000F, shift in (SI). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for shift out U+240E Symbol for shift out. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+000E, shift out (SO). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for space U+2420 Symbol for space. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the space, U+0020 (SP). It copies as a picture, never as a space.
  • Symbol for start of heading U+2401 Symbol for start of heading. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0001, start of heading (SOH). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for start of text U+2402 Symbol for start of text. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0002, start of text (STX). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for substitute U+241A Symbol for substitute. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+001A, substitute (SUB). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for substitute form two U+2426 Symbol for substitute form two. Control Pictures block, Unicode 3.0. A second form of the substitute picture, from ISO 2047: a question mark turned backwards.
  • Symbol for synchronous idle U+2416 Symbol for synchronous idle. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+0016, synchronous idle (SYN). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for unit separator U+241F Symbol for unit separator. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+001F, information separator one (US). It copies as a picture, never as the code.
  • Symbol for vertical tabulation U+240B Symbol for vertical tabulation. Control Pictures block, Unicode 1.1. A visible picture of the control code U+000B, line tabulation (VT). It copies as a picture, never as the code.

Broken lines 15

  • Box drawings heavy double dash horizontal U+254D Box drawings heavy double dash horizontal. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings heavy double dash vertical U+254F Box drawings heavy double dash vertical. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings heavy quadruple dash horizontal U+2509 Box drawings heavy quadruple dash horizontal. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings heavy quadruple dash vertical U+250B Box drawings heavy quadruple dash vertical. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings heavy triple dash horizontal U+2505 Box drawings heavy triple dash horizontal. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings heavy triple dash vertical U+2507 Box drawings heavy triple dash vertical. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings light diagonal cross U+2573 Box drawings light diagonal cross. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1. Both diagonals at once: a cell crossed out. Unicode cross-refers it to the saltire and the multiplication x.
  • Box drawings light diagonal upper left to lower right U+2572 Box drawings light diagonal upper left to lower right. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1. Fills its whole cell corner to corner, the mirror of the one before.
  • Box drawings light diagonal upper right to lower left U+2571 Box drawings light diagonal upper right to lower left. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1. Fills its whole cell corner to corner, so a row of them joins into a zigzag or a slope.
  • Box drawings light double dash horizontal U+254C Box drawings light double dash horizontal. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings light double dash vertical U+254E Box drawings light double dash vertical. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings light quadruple dash horizontal U+2508 Box drawings light quadruple dash horizontal. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings light quadruple dash vertical U+250A Box drawings light quadruple dash vertical. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings light triple dash horizontal U+2504 Box drawings light triple dash horizontal. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Box drawings light triple dash vertical U+2506 Box drawings light triple dash vertical. Box Drawing block, Unicode 1.1.

Braille static 11

  • Braille pattern dots-1234567 U+287F Braille pattern dots-1234567. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 8 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-12345678 U+28FF Braille pattern dots-12345678. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. All eight dots of the cell raised: the densest of the 256 braille patterns.
  • Braille pattern dots-1234568 U+28BF Braille pattern dots-1234568. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 7 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-1234578 U+28DF Braille pattern dots-1234578. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 6 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-1234678 U+28EF Braille pattern dots-1234678. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 5 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-1235678 U+28F7 Braille pattern dots-1235678. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 4 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-1245678 U+28FB Braille pattern dots-1245678. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 3 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-1345678 U+28FD Braille pattern dots-1345678. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 2 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-1358 U+2895 Braille pattern dots-1358. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Four dots of eight in a checker: dots 1, 3, 5, 8.
  • Braille pattern dots-2345678 U+28FE Braille pattern dots-2345678. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Seven dots raised and dot 1 missing.
  • Braille pattern dots-2467 U+286A Braille pattern dots-2467. Braille Patterns block, Unicode 3.0. Four dots of eight in a checker: dots 2, 4, 6, 7.

Warning and error signs 14

  • Ballot box with x U+2612 Ballot box with x. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Ballot x U+2717 Ballot x. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Circled times U+2297 Circled times. Mathematical Operators block, Unicode 1.1. A maths operator, the tensor product, that reads as an error badge.
  • Clear screen symbol U+239A Clear screen symbol. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 3.0.
  • Electric arrow U+2301 Electric arrow. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 3.0. From ISO 2047, where it is the symbol for End of Transmission.
  • Erase to the left U+232B Erase to the left. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode also calls it the delete to the left key.
  • Erase to the right U+2326 Erase to the right. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode also calls it the delete to the right key.
  • Escape key sign U+238B Broken circle with northwest arrow. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 3.0. Unicode also calls it escape: the sign for the Esc key.
  • Heavy ballot x U+2718 Heavy ballot x. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Power symbol U+23FB Power symbol. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 9.0. The IEEE 1621 power symbol, Unicode notes.
  • Squared saltire U+26DD Squared saltire. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 5.2. Unicode also calls it closed entry.
  • Squared times U+22A0 Squared times. Mathematical Operators block, Unicode 1.1.
  • Warning sign U+26A0 Warning sign. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 4.0. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
  • X in a rectangle box U+2327 X in a rectangle box. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode also calls it the clear key.

Glitched symbols 30

  • Cross, heavy glitch U+271D Latin cross under 8 combining marks (4 above, 1 through, 3 below): U+0335, U+031A, U+0310, U+0309, U+0311, U+031C, U+0347, U+033A. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 10 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Cross, light glitch U+271D Latin cross under 2 combining marks (1 through, 1 below): U+0338, U+0331. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 4 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Cross, medium glitch U+271D Latin cross under 4 combining marks (3 above, 1 through): U+0337, U+0310, U+034B, U+031B. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 6 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Diamond, heavy glitch U+25C6 Black diamond under 8 combining marks (2 above, 1 through, 5 below): U+0336, U+0302, U+0313, U+0322, U+032D, U+0316, U+0349, U+0356. 9 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Diamond, light glitch U+25C6 Black diamond under 2 combining marks (1 above, 1 through): U+0336, U+031B. 3 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Diamond, medium glitch U+25C6 Black diamond under 4 combining marks (1 above, 1 through, 2 below): U+0336, U+0302, U+034E, U+032E. 5 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Heart, heavy glitch U+2665 Black heart suit under 8 combining marks (4 above, 1 through, 3 below): U+0336, U+0369, U+036C, U+033D, U+0300, U+0355, U+0325, U+0318. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 10 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Heart, light glitch U+2665 Black heart suit under 2 combining marks (2 above): U+0303, U+030E. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 4 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Heart, medium glitch U+2665 Black heart suit under 4 combining marks (1 above, 1 through, 2 below): U+0338, U+033F, U+0359, U+0318. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 6 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Infinity, heavy glitch U+221E Infinity under 8 combining marks (3 above, 1 through, 4 below): U+0337, U+036E, U+0305, U+035B, U+0322, U+0319, U+0326, U+033C. 9 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Infinity, light glitch U+221E Infinity under 2 combining marks (1 above, 1 below): U+0302, U+0347. 3 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Infinity, medium glitch U+221E Infinity under 4 combining marks (1 through, 3 below): U+0335, U+0319, U+0359, U+0329. 5 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Moon, heavy glitch U+263E Last quarter moon under 8 combining marks (5 above, 1 through, 2 below): U+0334, U+0305, U+0342, U+036E, U+0358, U+031A, U+0325, U+0319. 9 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Moon, light glitch U+263E Last quarter moon under 2 combining marks (1 above, 1 below): U+0309, U+0348. 3 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Moon, medium glitch U+263E Last quarter moon under 4 combining marks (4 above): U+034B, U+0366, U+033F, U+0304. 5 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Music note, heavy glitch U+266A Eighth note under 8 combining marks (2 above, 1 through, 5 below): U+0338, U+0367, U+0346, U+0322, U+032E, U+0339, U+0324, U+032B. 9 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Music note, light glitch U+266A Eighth note under 2 combining marks (2 below): U+0349, U+0326. 3 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Music note, medium glitch U+266A Eighth note under 4 combining marks (3 above, 1 below): U+0309, U+034C, U+0365, U+0324. 5 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Skull, heavy glitch U+2620 Skull and crossbones under 8 combining marks (1 above, 1 through, 6 below): U+0337, U+0351, U+031F, U+0328, U+034E, U+0359, U+0326, U+0321. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 10 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Skull, light glitch U+2620 Skull and crossbones under 2 combining marks (1 above, 1 through): U+0335, U+030B. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 4 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Skull, medium glitch U+2620 Skull and crossbones under 4 combining marks (2 above, 1 through, 1 below): U+0338, U+0368, U+0307, U+0353. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 6 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Smiley, heavy glitch U+263A White smiling face under 8 combining marks (3 above, 1 through, 4 below): U+0335, U+030B, U+035B, U+030A, U+032A, U+033C, U+0316, U+0332. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 10 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Smiley, light glitch U+263A White smiling face under 2 combining marks (2 below): U+031D, U+0354. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 4 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Smiley, medium glitch U+263A White smiling face under 4 combining marks (3 above, 1 below): U+033F, U+0368, U+0351, U+0327. U+FE0E after the base keeps it plain text, not an emoji. 6 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Star, heavy glitch U+2605 Black star under 8 combining marks (3 above, 1 through, 4 below): U+0337, U+0315, U+036F, U+030C, U+0347, U+0326, U+0323, U+033A. 9 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Star, light glitch U+2605 Black star under 2 combining marks (2 below): U+0327, U+031E. 3 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Star, medium glitch U+2605 Black star under 4 combining marks (1 above, 3 below): U+036E, U+0356, U+0330, U+033A. 5 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Triangle, heavy glitch U+25B2 Black up-pointing triangle under 8 combining marks (4 above, 1 through, 3 below): U+0335, U+031A, U+0363, U+0308, U+036F, U+0353, U+034E, U+0330. 9 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Triangle, light glitch U+25B2 Black up-pointing triangle under 2 combining marks (2 above): U+036B, U+030D. 3 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.
  • Triangle, medium glitch U+25B2 Black up-pointing triangle under 4 combining marks (2 above, 2 below): U+0357, U+0342, U+0333, U+033A. 5 characters in all, from the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Made once with the zalgo page's mark tables and stored, so every copy is the same.

Glitch strings 16

  • ␀␀␀␀ Four null pictures
  • ━━╍╍┅┅┉┉ Heavy line breaking into dashes
  • ╳╳╳╳╳ Row of diagonal crosses
  • █▓▒░ Fade from solid to light
  • ░▒▓█▓▒░ Fade in and out again
  • ▘▚▗▞▝▖▟▛ Scrambled quadrant blocks
  • ▚▞▚▞▚▞ Checker interference
  • ▯▯▯▯▯ Five tofu boxes
  • ⢕⡪⢕⡪⢕⡪ Braille checker static
  • ⣿⣾⣽⣻⣷⣯⣟⢿⡿⣿ Braille static, one dot lost in each middle cell
  • ��� Three replacement characters in a row
  • 4̵͓ͭ̏̇̓0̴̢͈̗̠̋4̸̹̫̞̂ͨ 404 under six marks a digit
  • E̶R̷R̷O̵R̸ ERROR with one mark through each letter
  • g̷͙̦͒l̸̺̱͇i̶̦̫̠t̸̡̖͋c̴̡͈͇h̷̟͔̾ The word glitch under four marks a letter
  • ▓▒░ name ░▒▓ Fades round the word name, to type over
  • s̶̩ͬï̸͙g̸̜̱ǹ̴͎ã̵̙l̵̰͆ l̷ͥ͌o̴̞̯s̷ͣͤt͙̀ͩ signal lost under three marks a letter

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. Every character was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): the code points and the character names in the notes come from that file, names in sentence case. Block names come from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt) and the Unicode version each character arrived in from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), both version 18.0.0. Other names and uses of a character come from the annotations in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). That is where the 25%, 50% and 75% of the three shades, speckles fill, solid, the notes on the object replacement character (a placeholder in text for an otherwise unspecified object) and on the replacement character (used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode), the missing ideograph note of the white square, the geta mark as a substitute for an ideograph not in the font, graphic for space, undoable delete, ISO 2047, clear key, escape, the two delete keys, closed entry, tensor product, the IEEE 1621 power symbol and End of Transmission come from; the build stops if one of them changes. Which characters have an emoji form, and the text-style sequences that keep them plain, come from emoji-data.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt) and emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt), version 18.0.0. The name and the abbreviation of each control code behind a control picture (null and NUL, escape and ESC, delete and DEL) come from NameAliases.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NameAliases.txt). The Control Pictures block has 42 characters in 18.0.0: 37 from Unicode 1.1, 2 from 3.0 and 3 from 16.0 (U+2427 to U+2429), counted from DerivedAge.txt; 18.0.0 adds none. That the replacement character is the general substitute character, and that the object replacement character is an insertion point for objects in a stream of text, is from the Unicode Standard, Version 18.0, section 23.8 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/core-spec/chapter-23/). That the code charts show a character with no visible display as a dashed box round a short abbreviation of its name is from section 24.1.2 of the same standard (the dashed box convention) (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/core-spec/chapter-24/), and the Specials chart of Version 18.0 shows U+FFFC as a dashed box holding OBJ (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/charts/PDF/UFFF0.pdf). That many fonts draw the replacement character as a question mark in a diamond (a rhombus) is from Wikipedia's article Specials (Unicode block) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)). That the small rectangles shown for characters no installed font has are nicknamed tofu is from Wikipedia's article Noto fonts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts). What draws is our own test and not a promise about any other device: on 2026-09-20 every character here was drawn with the system fonts of one Mac. Every control picture from U+2400 to U+2426 drew; the three from Unicode 16.0, the uncertainty sign U+2BD1 and the shades of Symbols for Legacy Computing drew as empty boxes and are left out. U+FFFC left no ink in the system font and drew as a dashed box holding OBJ in Arial on the same machine. The glitched symbols and the four marked strings were made once, with fixed seeds, by the same function and the same 106 combining marks (Combining Diacritical Marks block) that this site's zalgo text generator uses, and are stored as fixed strings; the build checks every mark against UnicodeData.txt. No character carries more than 8 marks, and nothing here is a string known to crash or freeze an app. Which characters read as a glitch, the tile names that are not Unicode names, and every ready-made string are this site's own choice and assembly. The Unicode data files were checked on 2026-09-19; NameAliases.txt, the Unicode Standard pages, the Specials chart and the two Wikipedia articles were read on 2026-09-20. Licence: own work