Chat Colours

Chat Colours overhauls the text formatting syntax Minecraft has used for about 14 years. Single-letter codes for strikeout, bold, obfuscated, underline and reset are replaced by a markdown-like syntax, so players can write bold, italic, underline and strikethrough text in chat by wrapping it in symbols. Italic and bold can be combined, and several things can be formatted at once; the closing symbols are optional in some cases, and the old single-letter codes still work.

Custom colours are written as six-digit hex values followed by a closing bracket, such as a red value ahead of a line of text. Named colours (white, black, blue, green, aqua, cyan, red, purple, gray and yellow) can be used in place of the single-letter codes, with names that are not case-sensitive. Dark versions of the named colours are reached by putting a d before the name, except for white and black, and an optional underscore or space can separate the name from a prefix or suffix.

The mod is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, with public links to the source code and issue tracker. It is published for Forge only, across 7 release versions 1.16.5 – 1.20.1, and it runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it.