Enchanting Colors
by backslackes
Enchanting Colors gives enchanted books on Forge a color that reflects the enchantments they carry, so a book can be recognized from across an inventory.
What it does
Books are colored by the enchantments they contain. Combined books mix the colors of their enchantments, and a book with several enchantments shows a larger blend. A book holding a maximum-level enchantment receives a diamond seal. Either a ribbon cover or a seal marks the book, and the colors include enchantments added by other mods.
The colors are configurable, so a server owner or player can change which color each enchantment uses, including modded ones. Book colors are cached to limit the performance cost. Textures and overlays can be customized with resource packs, and a player can see what enchantments a book holds at a glance.
The mod runs on the client only, so the server does not need to install it, and players join a server without it. It is published for Forge across six release versions, under the MIT License, and the source code is public.
Key features
Color-coded enchanted books
Each enchanted book takes a color based on the enchantments it contains, shown on its cover.
Combined book colors
Books with several enchantments mix the colors of each one, and larger books show a bigger blend.
Diamond seal for max-level enchants
A book holding a maximum-level enchantment is marked with a diamond seal on its cover.
Configurable enchantment colors
The colors assigned to each enchantment can be changed in the config, including enchantments from other mods.
Resource pack textures
The ribbon, seal and overlay textures can be replaced with resource packs.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who keep many enchanted books and want to tell them apart by sight, and pack makers who want to restyle the books with their own textures.
How it compares
Enchantment Config is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 that runs on client and server under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Enchant Icon is open source under the MIT License, runs client-side only and supports Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.16 – 1.20.6. Enchantable Boat is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 only, under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enchanting Colors | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client-side only | 2025-03-13 |
| Enchantment Config | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-07-10 |
| Enchant Icon | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.16 – 1.20.6 | Client-side only | 2024-05-12 |
| Enchantable Boat | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-07-28 |
Questions
Does Enchanting Colors need to be installed on the server?
Which versions does Enchanting Colors support?
Can the enchantment colors be changed?
In the catalog
Enchanting Colors is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,886 Storage mods for Forge. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/enchanting-colors
- Owner
- backslackes
- Published
- 2025-03-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-03-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15