GlitchaGlitch Text Generator
Renders your text to a canvas, then runs it through the same channel-split and pixel-sort engine as the rest of Glitcha. Good for titles, thumbnails, or just making your username look dangerous.
Why glitching text works differently than glitching a photo
A photo is mostly smooth gradients — sky, skin, fabric — with a few hard edges. Type is the opposite: almost nothing but hard edges on a flat background. That's exactly the kind of image RGB-shift and pixel-sort react to most dramatically, because both effects work by exaggerating contrast at boundaries. Split the channels on a photo and you get a soft color fringe; split them on bold letterforms and you get crisp, legible color bands that read instantly as “glitched text” rather than a blurry mess.
Under the hood this tool isn't a separate text-glitching algorithm — it draws your word to a canvas at high contrast, then hands that canvas to the exact same RGB-shift and pixel-sort effects used everywhere else on the site. If you already understand how those two tools behave on images, you already understand what's about to happen to your text.
A few things worth trying
- Short, bold words hold up better than long phrases — more pixels per letter means more room for the effect to read clearly.
- ALL CAPS survives heavy distortion better than lowercase, since the letterforms stay chunkier.
- Dial pixel-sort low and RGB-shift high for a clean, legible “3D glasses” look; do the reverse for something closer to a corrupted file.
- Great for usernames, stream overlays, and poster titles where you want the glitch to feel intentional, not accidental.
Questions
- Can I use my own font or a longer phrase?
- It'll render up to 40 characters in a bold monospace face, sized to fit. For real typographic control — your own font, exact kerning — set the text elsewhere, export it as an image, then run that through the RGB Split Generator or Pixel Sorter.
- Does my text get sent anywhere?
- No. It's drawn to a canvas and glitched entirely on your device — nothing leaves your browser tab.
- Can I animate the text?
- Yep — send the result to the full editor, animate the effect stack, and export it as a loop.