Formatting

Supports all 16 standard color tags found here.

'<dark_green>This is dark green text'

Custom colors in color tags are supported. They are written in the form <#hex color>. Google has a built-in hex color picker.

`<#ff0000>This is bright red text`
`<#ff0000>This is bright red text`

One advantage of using modern formatting is support for convenient utilities like gradient tags. They are written in the form <gradient:color1:[color2]:[...colors]>. Both standard and hex colors are supported.

`<gradient:red:gold>This is a smooth gradient from red to gold`
`<gradient:#ff0000:blue>This is a smooth gradient from bright red to blue`
`<gradient:red:yellow:green>This is a smooth gradient from red to yellow to green`

As of 1.21.4, shadow color tags are now supported. They are written in the form <shadow:color:[opacity]>, where opacity is optional and defaults to 0.25. Opacity ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 is transparent and 1 is fully visible.

`<shadow:dark_blue:1><green>Green text with a dark blue shadow`

Supports all 6 standard style tags and much more (such as click and hover tags).

'<bold><italic>This is bold and italic text'

Supports all 16 standard color codes in legacy format found here. Ignore the codes listed after white (§f); they are only supported in Bedrock Edition.

'&2This is dark green text'

Custom colors in legacy format are supported. They are written with the prefix &# (or §#) followed by a 6-digit hex color code. Google has a built-in hex color picker.

'&#ff0000This is bright red text'
'&#FF0000This is bright red text'

Supports all 6 standard style codes in legacy format, found here.

'&lThis is bold text'