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Minecraft: Java Edition
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ChatColor3 lets your players change the colour and style of their chat. They can pick from all 16 Minecraft colours, any hex colour (over 16 million options), rainbow, or gradients, then layer on modifiers like bold, italic, underline, and obfuscated.
This is a community fork of Sulphate's ChatColor2, rebuilt for modern Paper servers. The original has not been updated past 1.20, so this fork brings it up to date for 26+ while keeping everything that made it good.
What it does
- Set a chat colour with a command or through a GUI
- Legacy colour codes, hex (&#RRGGBB), rainbow (&u[...]), and gradient (&g[...]) colours
- Modifiers: bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough, obfuscated
- Named custom colours you can save and reuse (%name)
- Group colours tied to permissions
- MySQL and MariaDB support, so colours carry across your servers
- Set colours from the console, handy for donor rewards
- PlaceholderAPI placeholders
- Fully configurable messages and GUI
Commands
The main command is /chatcolor. A few examples:
- /chatcolor red bold : red and bold
- /chatcolor #FF8800 : a specific hex colour
- /chatcolor &g[red,blue] : a red to blue gradient
- /chatcolor gui : open the colour picker
- /chatcolor clear : remove your colour
Run /chatcolor help in game for the full list, or check the wiki.
Requirements
- Paper 26.2 or newer (works on Paper forks like Purpur)
- Java 21 or newer
- PlaceholderAPI is optional
About the fork
ChatColor2 is GPL-3.0, so this fork keeps the same license and credits the original author. If your server is still on an older version, the original ChatColor2 works there.