How to Change Text Color for Signs in Minecraft (Color Codes)

Minecraft is an open world game where you can make just about anything if you’re creative enough. Despite the world’s rules there are tricks to work around them, enabling customizations, like changing text color for signs and chat. Using the section symbol and some quick steps, we’ll go over all your color options.

It’s ten years old but you can still learn something new like how to  change the text color for signs in Minecraft.

This works for both the Java version and the UWP version of the app.

The Section symbol

To change text color, you need to declare the color before you start the text. The color is declared by entering the Section symbol § followed by the color code. Depending on your keyboard type, you access this symbol different ways: 

• Windows 10: Hold down the Alt key and tap 0167 on the number pad
• MacOS: Hold Option + 6
• iOS: Hold the & symbol on your iphone keyboard. § will pop up and you just slide your finger over it
• Android: First choose the number keyboard, then the symbols keyboard. From there, hold the paragraph symbol (¶), and you should see § pop up and you can slide your finger over it
• Different versions of Android may have different keyboard options. You may also find it as simple as holding down S and seeing the section symbol appear, so do some exploring
• Game Console: Open the character keyboard and hold the & button until more options appear. Select the section symbol. Some consoles may have it available in the symbols section
• When all else fails, you can simply google the section symbol and copy and paste the character

Minecraft color codes

Minecraft has different color codes. You can preview each color by visiting DigMinecraft. The color codes are below:

Using MC Color Codes

Now that you’ve selected your color, you can start changing the text.

Changing text color for signs

1. In Minecraft, place a sign and enter the text editing mode
2. Enter the section symbol followed by the color code
3. Without adding extra space, enter the text you want on the sign
4. If the text overflows to another line, you’ll need to enter the color code before the second line

Example

§fThis is a test §fsign

You can also apply bold, underline, and italic styles to text. They each require a code of their own and can be used with color codes.

Changing Chat Text Color

The basic rules for chat color are pretty much the same as for signs. Choose your color code, go to the chat and insert the § symbol before your text, also including your color code. It would look like this: 

§5Hello!

This would show the word, “Hello!” in purple.

Minecraft Style codes

The codes for the various styles are given below;

If you want to use both a color code and a style code, reference this example:

§f§lsign text

This will give you bold white text.

Again, enter this at the start of each line on the sign. If the text overflows to a second line and this code isn’t present at the start, the text color of the second line will default to black.

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