# Slug Generator

> Turn any title into a clean, URL-safe slug: lowercase, hyphenated, diacritics removed.

URL: https://uttir.com/slug-generator
Categories: text-tools
Privacy: Slugs are generated locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

## About

A slug is the readable, URL-safe part of an address — like “how-to-compress-an-image” in uttir.com/how-to-compress-an-image. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens, and contain only letters, digits, and separators, which is better for users and for SEO.

This generator lowercases your title, strips accents and diacritics, replaces punctuation and spaces with hyphens, and trims the result — live as you type.

## How to use

1. **Type a title** — Any phrase, headline, or product name.
2. **Copy the slug** — The cleaned slug appears instantly below the input.

## Examples

### Headline to slug

Punctuation and casing are normalized.

Input:

```
How to Convert JPG to PNG (2026 Guide)
```

Output:

```
how-to-convert-jpg-to-png-2026-guide
```

### Accents removed

Diacritics are transliterated away.

Input:

```
Héllo Wörld Café
```

Output:

```
hello-world-cafe
```

## FAQ

### Why hyphens and not underscores?

Search engines treat hyphens as word separators but underscores as joiners, so hyphenated slugs read as separate words in search results.

### Should slugs be short?

Yes — keep the essential words. Long slugs get truncated in search results and are harder to share.

### Are slugs case-sensitive?

URLs are case-sensitive, but most servers treat slugs case-insensitively. The tool lowercases the slug by default for consistency.

### Are Unicode characters preserved?

By default, non-ASCII characters are transliterated to ASCII (ö → o, ñ → n). Turn on "Keep Unicode" to preserve them, which is useful for non-English slugs.

## Related tools

- [Case Converter](https://uttir.com/case-converter) — Convert text between UPPER, lower, Title, sentence, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, and kebab-case.
- [URL Encoder](https://uttir.com/url-encoder) — Percent-encode text for safe use in URLs — as a query value or a full URL.
- [Character Counter](https://uttir.com/character-counter) — Count characters, words, lines, and UTF-8 bytes as you type.

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For the full HTML page with the live tool, visit https://uttir.com/slug-generator.
This file is the markdown rendering at https://uttir.com/slug-generator.md. See https://uttir.com/llms.txt for a site-wide summary.