Item Name Recolorer
by Pepsied
Item Name Recolorer lets players color and format the custom name of an item at a cauldron, using dyes, RGB hex codes and bold, italic, underline, strikethrough or obfuscation styles.
What it does
An item first has to be renamed on an anvil, and the name must begin with a space so the default name is kept. After that, tossing the item into a water-filled cauldron together with a dye recolors the name, with blue dye giving blue and white dye giving white. Setting a color resets any formatting that was applied before, so color is chosen first and formats are added afterward. Several formats can be stacked on one item, and giving an item dye in the cauldron clears its bold, italic, underline and similar styles.
Hex colors such as FF0000 can be typed into the anvil name to set a custom RGB value. The mod is server required and client optional, so the server must run it while players may leave it out. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 12 release versions, 1.21 – 1.21.11, and the mod is released under the MIT License, but it is not open source.
Key features
Dye-based name colors
Dyes thrown into a water cauldron change the color of a renamed item, with each dye giving its matching color.
Hex color codes
Custom RGB hex values entered in the anvil name set colors beyond the standard dye palette.
Text formats
Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and obfuscation can be applied to an item name, and several can be combined.
Special dyes
Ink sacs and glow ink sacs act as dyes for name formatting, including obfuscated text effects.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners and players who rename items on an anvil and want to color or format those names. Clients may leave the mod out, since the effect appears only when the server runs it.
How it compares
Remove Italics is a client-side only NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 under the MIT License, and it does not touch item names. Colorize is a client and server mod under the MIT License, open source, for 1.18 – 26.3. Cauldron Expansion is server required and client optional on all four loaders, for 1.21 – 1.21.1, under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item Name Recolorer | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2025-09-01 |
| Remove Italics | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2025-06-16 |
| Colorize | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.18 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-15 |
| Cauldron Expansion | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2024-08-28 |
Questions
Does Item Name Recolorer need to be installed on the client?
Why does a color reset the formatting on an item?
Which loaders does Item Name Recolorer support?
In the catalog
Item Name Recolorer is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,894 Equipment mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Any item you want to change MUST be renamed hrough the anvil first. You can add a space at the end to maintain its current/default name. Once you've renamed your item with an anvil, toss it right into the cauldron filled with water
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/item-name-recolorer
- Owner
- Pepsied
- Published
- 2025-02-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15