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EliteDenizen · 30 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
MiniMessage is the text format Paper uses for modern Minecraft text. Instead of the old
Named colors work as tags, and so does any hex color:
Styles work the same way:
Gradients are the main reason people switch:
You can add more than two colors, and
&a and §b codes, it uses tags that read almost like HTML. Once you know a handful of them, you can make chat, menus and messages look far more polished than legacy codes allow.
Colors and styles
Named colors work as tags, and so does any hex color:
<red>Red text</red> <#7c5cff>Custom violet</#7c5cff>Styles work the same way:
<b> for bold, <i> for italic, <u> for underline, <st> for strikethrough and <obf> for scrambled text. Closing a tag ends the style, and <reset> clears everything at once.
Gradients
Gradients are the main reason people switch:
<gradient:#ffc3a0:#f78fb3>Welcome to the server</gradient>You can add more than two colors, and
<rainbow> cycles through the whole spectrum. Keep gradients for short, important text such as prefixes and titles. Long gradient sentences are hard to read.