How does it add the accents?

For each eligible letter the tool rolls against your chosen density and, on a hit, appends one or more random combining marks from the Unicode U+0300 to U+036F block. Because they are combining characters, they stack directly onto the preceding base letter.

Is this the same as Zalgo text?

It is a lighter, controllable version of the same idea. Full Zalgo stacks many marks above and below for a chaotic look, while this tool lets you dial the density so the result stays readable or goes wild as you prefer.

Can I undo the effect?

Yes. Because the original letters are untouched and only combining marks are added, a diacritic stripper that normalises to NFD and removes combining marks will return the plain original text exactly.

Where will this display correctly?

Anywhere that renders Unicode combining characters, including most modern browsers, social platforms, and chat apps. Some systems clamp or strip excessive marks, and a few legacy fields reject non-ASCII entirely.

Random Diacritic Adder

This tool decorates plain text by randomly attaching combining accent marks to its letters, producing a stylised metal-umlaut or light glitch effect. The intensity is adjustable, and the effect is fully reversible because the underlying letters never change.

How it works

Combining diacritics in the Unicode range U+0300 to U+036F render on top of the character before them. The tool walks the text and, for each letter, decides whether to decorate it:

for each letter:
  if random() < density:
    append 1 to N random marks from U+0300 … U+036F

Higher density and more marks per letter create heavier stacking. Spaces and punctuation are skipped so word boundaries stay legible.

Example and tips

A light setting turns GERA TOOLS into something like GĖRA TÔŌLS, while a heavy setting stacks several marks per letter. Keep density low for readable headings and high for a chaotic effect. To recover the original, paste the result into a diacritic stripper — it will normalise and strip the marks back to clean text.