ColorTooltips
by Yanbwe
ColorTooltips restyles item tooltips with animated borders, fades, slides and rarity-based colors, and its settings can be edited in-game.
What it does
The mod changes how item tooltips appear and move. Each tooltip box can fade in and out, ease its position toward the mouse, slide from either side and scale its size smoothly. Delay, speed and the animations are adjustable, and any single effect can be turned off without touching the others. Four preset styles are included out of the box, and the Style Configuration Guide describes how to create more.
Border and title colors can flow continuously, and icons can scale from a set start size to normal size when they appear. Hovering over an item can trigger a colored light streak that travels along the box, with its color and length configurable. Colors can follow rarity themes or use a chosen hex value, fine-tuned by brightness and saturation. Hot Reload lets a player edit the JSON style files in-game and preview changes instantly.
ColorTooltips is client-side only, so servers and other players do not need it. It runs on Forge and NeoForge, targets 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, and is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, making it open source. Source code and a wiki are public. Files were first published on 2026-04-01 and last updated on 2026-10-01.
Key features
Animated tooltip boxes
Fade, position easing, slide and size transitions, each with its own speed and delay settings.
Flowing border colors
Colors along the border and title bar move continuously, and the effect can be toggled on its own.
Item icon animation
Item icons grow from a smaller starting scale up to their normal size, and the entry animation has its own separate scale values.
Switch glow streak
A colored light streak travels along the tooltip when the cursor moves to a different item, with length and color set in the config.
Rarity and custom colors
Rarity theme colors, or a hex color with brightness and saturation adjustments, style each tooltip.
Four preset styles
Vanilla, minimal white, rarity-color and RGB rainbow gradient presets are ready to use.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does ColorTooltips need to be installed on the server?
Does ColorTooltips work with RarityCore?
Which loaders and versions does ColorTooltips support?
In the catalog
ColorTooltips is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,149 Decoration mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
ColorTooltips is a mod that provides custom tooltip styling. It features two main characteristics: highly customizable and buttery smooth. This mod no longer requires RarityCore to be installed since version 2.0.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/colortooltips
- Owner
- Yanbwe
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15