Glitch Text Generator and Text Art Canvas
Hello. You may be interested in covering my Glitch Text Generator and Text Art Canvas for your next issue. It’s a web app for creating various types of text art using Unicode. It has a few interesting features:
- Quickly create “glitch text” (g̸̨͉̥̭̿̍l̩̳ͤ᷄̾̅̀ị̴̿̅̆᷈ͯt͉̣̒̾ͭ̊͗c͕̦̉᷾ͦ͞ͅh̜̪ͩ̂̑᷆͜ ̭̩̭᷈̀͏̕t̫̣̝̝̽̀̓ė̦͍̰᷊͗᷆x̵͔͍᷆ͫ̚͟t̸̷̴̹̓̂͟) using combining diacritical marks. Many of these are stackable to get interesting aesthetic effects, or even cause browser bugs or other unexpected behavior.
- Quickly generate dozens of other types of text — shapes, dingbats, Arabic, Katakana, Braille… just to name a few.
- Formatting tools for making your text look pretty.
- Download the JavaScript and include it in your own project.
The tool and its documentation are here:
http://animalswithinanimals.com/generator/
There is also a tumblr of artwork creating using the tool here:
http://glitchtext.tumblr.com/
Most of the work on the tumblr is by me (Benjamin Berg, aka stAllio!), unless otherwise noted.
I am of course happy to answer any questions.