Strikethrough Text Generator

Two different kinds of strikethrough

There are two entirely separate ways to strike text through on Discord, and picking the wrong one is the usual source of frustration. Discord's built-in markdown uses two tildes either side of the text and is handled by the Discord client itself. The generator on this page instead produces unicode strikethrough, which modifies the characters themselves.

The distinction matters because of where each one works. Markdown strikethrough only functions inside message bodies - it does nothing in a nickname, a channel name, a bio, a status or any other field, because those fields do not parse markdown at all.

Unicode strikethrough works everywhere text works, precisely because there is no formatting to parse. The struck appearance is baked into the characters, so it survives into nicknames, bios, channel topics, other websites, documents and spreadsheets.

The practical rule: inside a message, use markdown. Anywhere else, use unicode.

How unicode strikethrough actually works

Unicode strikethrough is produced with a combining character - U+0336, the combining long stroke overlay. A combining character is not a letter in its own right; it attaches to the character immediately before it and renders on top of it.

The generator inserts one of these after every character in your text. The word test becomes t, stroke, e, stroke, s, stroke, t, stroke - eight codepoints displaying as four struck letters. This is why struck text is roughly double the length internally even though it looks the same length on screen.

That doubling has real consequences on Discord. A 32 character nickname limit becomes an effective 16 characters once every letter carries a combining mark, and a struck message counts toward the 2,000 character limit at twice the visible rate.

It also explains editing behaviour. Pressing backspace on struck text often removes only the combining mark, leaving the bare letter behind, so it takes two presses per visible character to delete.

Where struck text renders reliably

Combining overlay support is good across modern platforms. Discord on desktop, web, iOS and Android all render it correctly, as do most browsers, messaging apps and word processors.

The main inconsistency is vertical alignment. Because the stroke is drawn as a separate glyph layered over the letter, its exact position depends on the font. In most fonts it lands neatly through the middle; in some condensed or decorative fonts it sits slightly high or low, and in monospace fonts it can appear to touch neighbouring characters.

Where it commonly fails is inside code blocks. Monospace rendering plus the fact that code blocks disable other formatting means struck text in a code block often looks misaligned or cluttered. If you need struck text inside code, it is usually better to restructure the message.

One important non-property: strikethrough is purely cosmetic. It does not hide, redact or obscure anything. The underlying characters are intact, so struck text is fully searchable and readable by anyone who copies it. For genuinely hiding content in Discord, spoiler tags are the correct tool.

Tips for using strikethrough text generator

• Unicode font generators do not convert your text into images - they swap each letter for a visually similar character from another unicode block, so the result stays selectable, searchable and copy-pasteable.
• Not every device ships every unicode block. The enclosed, small-caps and fraktur ranges are well supported, but exotic blocks may fall back to boxes on older phones.
• Converted text works in Discord nicknames, roles, channel names, bios and messages, but some formats (italics, bold) are ignored inside code blocks and spoiler tags.
• Keep converted names short: Discord truncates nicknames at 32 characters and server names at 100, so reserve long decorated names for bios and about-me fields.

These tips apply no matter whether you are decorating a personal profile, organising a server or publishing a guide. The principle stays the same: start with clean, readable content, then add styling in small, reversible steps so your text keeps working everywhere it is pasted.

How to get started with strikethrough text generator

1. Paste or type your text. Start with the exact words you want to decorate. Converting first and editing later is slower, because every edit forces a fresh conversion.
2. Pick one style. Choose a single font style that matches the mood of the message. For names and headers, one style is enough; for bios you can mix two styles across different lines.
3. Copy and preview. Copy the result, paste it where it will actually live, and preview it in that context before sharing. If it looks off on your device, it will look off on many others too.

The whole workflow takes under a minute for most people. Because everything runs locally in the browser, there is no account to create, no upload step and no waiting for a server to respond. The results are plain text that you can paste anywhere and adjust later.

Common mistakes and how to avoid them

• Using unicode strikethrough inside a Discord message where markdown would do the job better. Markdown strikethrough renders more cleanly and survives copy-paste into other apps intact.
• Applying combining strikethrough to a very long passage. Each character gains an extra codepoint, so the text becomes slow to render, awkward to edit and roughly twice as long internally.
• Assuming struck text is unreadable to others. The underlying letters are unchanged, so anything struck through is still fully searchable, copyable and readable by bots - it is a visual effect, not redaction.
• Pasting unicode strikethrough into a username field. Discord usernames only accept lowercase letters, numbers, periods and underscores, so combining marks are rejected outright.

Frequently asked questions

Strikethrough Text Generator | key points to remember

Strikethrough Text Generator is part of a larger collection of free tools on this site. The related tools below cover adjacent topics, and everything runs directly in your browser - no accounts, no installs, no data leaving your device.

If a technique on this page does not behave as expected, the quickest fixes are: check the character limit of the field you are editing, make sure the text is not inside a code block, and preview it in the exact place where it will be used. Most rendering quirks come from one of those three sources, and most are resolved in seconds.

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