About ChatColor
From SpigotMCChange the style and color of your chat!
Description:
ChatColor allows players to change the colour and style of their chat to many different things! Colour your chat in over 16 million different colours, with all Minecraft colours, modifiers and hex colours supported!
Plugin Support
If you need some help or support with the plugin, please join my support Discord server here: https://discord.gg/hNBtt9cDk4
Additionally, check out the Plugin Wiki (WIP) for more detailed information on configuring and using the plugin!
Features:
- Change the colour of your players' chat message to over 16 million different possibilities.
- Supporting legacy, hex, rainbow, and gradient colours, giving you maximum customisability.
- All modifiers including bold, italic, underlined, and even obfuscated if you really want it, are available.
- MySQL & MariaDB support - keep your colours the same across all of your servers.
- Supports setting colours from console - easy to include as a donor purchase reward.
- Complete set of permissions allowing for fine control over player access to colours.
- Custom colour system to make it easier to create and save your favourite hex, rainbow, or gradient colours.
- Group colour system to enable permission-based set colours
- Fully customisable plugin messages.
- Fully customisable GUI for advanced colour selection.
- Settings to modify plugin functionality.
- Helpful and friendly author! Always here to help where I can.
Commands:
Key:
- <value> = Required value.
- [value] = Optional value.
- /chatcolor [player] <color/default> [modifiers] - Change yours or a player's chat colour!
- For a custom colour, use: /chatcolor [player] %<name>
The name is defined in the custom-colors.yml config file.
- Note: Please see here for information on hex colours! The format is like so: &#RRGGBB, where each character after the # must be a number or letter between 0-9 and a-f.
- /chatcolor reload - Reloads all configs, use if you changed them while running!
- /chatcolor reset - Use with caution, resets the config to the default!
- /chatcolor set <setting> <value> - Changes one of the many settings! (See below for details)
- /chatcolor confirm - Confirms a setting change.
- /chatcolor group <add/remove/list> [name] [color] - Adds, removes, or lists group colours. You can use these to give groups a chat color through permissions (see below).
- /chatcolor custom <add/remove/list> [name] [color] - Adds, removes, or lists custom colours. The color must be a valid custom color string.
- /chatcolor pause - Pauses your chat colour (temporarily removes it), allowing you to interact with other chat plugins without issue.
- /chatcolor - Shows your current chat colour!
- /chatcolor clear - Completely removes your chat colour.
- /chatcolor gui - Open a GUI for selecting your desired colour!
- /chatcolor <add/remove> <modifier> - Adds or removes a modifier from your chat colour.
- /chatcolor available - Shows your available colours and modifiers!
- /chatcolor help - Shows command help!
- The GUI is fully customisable in the config file gui.yml.
- There are instructions for creating your own GUIs as well as three example GUIs (one for normal colours, one for hex colours and one for custom colours) ready to go in the config.
- Valid item types:
- COLOUR
- MODIFIER
- INVENTORY
- FILLER
- COMMAND
- You can use the %player% placeholder in place of the player's name in the command.
- CLOSE_GUI
- Simply closes the GUI when clicked
- Feel free to drop me a message if you need any help!
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 3 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.
Loaders
Runs on Spigot and Paper.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
ChatColor on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers, for Paper servers. We download it from SpigotMC, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Spigot, Paper
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.17, released 2026-09-05
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1.21 to 26.2 (3 versions) | 26.2 |
| Spigot | 1.21 to 26.2 (3 versions) | 26.2 |
From 10 recorded builds of ChatColor.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.17 | 2026-09-05 | 1.21 to 26.2 (3 versions) | Spigot, Paper |
| 1.16.2 | 2026-08-30 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 1.16.1 | 2025-08-10 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 1.16 | 2025-04-08 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 1.15.1 | 2024-08-16 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 1.15 | 2024-07-20 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
Run ChatColor on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogChat & community
Chat, voice, Discord, clans and other community features.
Runs on your server
From source side supportSpigotMC lists ChatColor as required on the server. Check its SpigotMC page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- SpigotPaper
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.2 and 2 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓SpigotMCOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSulphate, as published on SpigotMC
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree








