Itsdacreeper: Created a guide for giving items color and other formatting via anvil

2025-12-22T23:21:54Z

Created a guide for giving items color and other formatting via anvil

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Items can be reanamed in an anvil to add colors, gradients, and other text formatting.

==Tags==
{| class="wikitable"
! width="30%" |Tag
! width="30%" |Example
! width="40%" |Description
|-
! colspan="3" |Decoration Tags {{Anchor_link|Decoration Tags}}
|-
|<code><nowiki><bold> </nowiki></code>
|<code><nowiki>Example</nowiki></code>
|Makes the text '''bold'''
|-
|<code><nowiki><italic> </nowiki></code>
|<code><nowiki>Example</nowiki></code>
|Makes the text ''italic''
|-
|<code><nowiki><underlined> </nowiki></code>
|<code><nowiki>Example</nowiki></code>
|Makes the text underlined
|-
|<code><strikethrough> <st></code>
|<code><st>Example</st></code>
|Makes the text have a <s>strikethrough</s>
|-
|<code><obfuscated> <obf></code>
|<code><obf>Example</obf></code>
|Makes the text obfuscated/scrambled
|-
! colspan="3" |Other Tags {{Anchor_link|Other Tags}}
|-
|<code><named color> <hex color></code>
|<code><dark_red> <#ff0000></code>
|Changes the color for next part of the text using a preset color or a hexadecimal color
 
Colors: '''black, dark_blue, dark_green, dark_aqua, dark_red, dark_purple, gold, gray, dark_gray, blue, green, aqua, red, light_purple, yellow, and white'''
|-
|<code><reset></code>
|<code><dark_red>Dark Red<reset>No Formatting</code>
|Resets all formatting
|-
|<code><rainbow:[!][phase]></code>
|<code><rainbow> <rainbow:!> <rainbow:2> <rainbow:!2></code>
|'''!''' reverses the rainbow direction
'''phase''' shifts the rainbow starting point
|-
|<code><gradient:[color1]:[color...]></code>
|<code><gradient:#ff0000:#00ff00>Example</gradient>
<gradient:red:green:blue>3 Colors!</code>
|Make a gradient between 2 or more colors
|-
|<code><transition:[color1]:[color...]:[phase]></code>
|<code><transition:#ffffff:#000000:0>Example</transition></code>
|Transitions between colors. Similar to a gradient, but everything is the same color and the phase chooses that color
|-
|<code><font:[key]></code>
|<code><font:alt>Example</code>
|Allows to change the font of the text.
 
'''default''': Default minecraft font
 
'''alt''': Enchanting table font
 
'''uniform''': GNU Unifont
 
'''illageralt''': Illager font
|-
|<code><shadow:color name or hex code:[opacity]></code>
|<code><shadow:aqua:0.5> <shadow:#55FF55:1></code>
|Change your text shadow color and opacity
|-
|<code><pride:flag></code>
|<code>Happy <pride>pride month</pride>! <pride:trans>Trans rights!</code>
|Color your items with different types of pride flags: '''pride, progress, trans, bi, pan, nb, lesbian, ace, agender, demisexual, genderqueer, genderfluid, intersex, aro, baker, philly, queer, gay, bigender or demigender'''
|-
|}

==Notes==
Closing tags (ones that have / in them, like </gradient>) are not required unless you want to end that particular formatting without resetting all of your formatting. For example: "<code><nowiki>Bold and Underlined; only Underlined</nowiki></code>" shows up as '''Bold and Underlined'''; only Underlined

Use shorted versions of tags as to not exceed the character limit in the anvil!

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Itsdacreeper: Created a guide for giving items color and other formatting via anvil