One thing Discord doesn’t do very well is make text chat fun and colorful. At first glance, there are no built-in color commands, and there’s no way to make your text look “fancy.” There is text chat, though. You can change the color of your Discord text. Discord text chats can be more exciting and eye-catching if they have bold colors. This article shows you how to get these colors in your text chats.
How Text Colorization Works In Discord
Javascript is used to build the interfaces on Discord, and a theme called Solarized Dark is used to make the text color. A library called Highlight.js is also used to make the text look different. Well, when you log in to your Discord server, many Javascript programs are used to make the page you see look the way it does. Highlight.js is one of these programs.
The Discord user interface doesn’t support colorizing your text, but the Javascript engine, which runs the highlight.js script, does. Therefore, code snippets can be added to your text chat so that you can change the color of the words that everyone sees in their text chat window.
To change the color of a piece of Discord text, you need to put that text inside a block of code. This is the most important thing to know. This is a three-line block of text with your text in the middle.
Use The “Back Quote” Symbol
Well, you’ll need to use the backquote symbol (grave accent) on your keyboard to color code any text in Discord. It’s in the upper left corner of your keyboard. In addition, it comes with the Tilde symbol:
Write First Line Of Code
Well, the first line of the code block should have three backquote symbols (“`). Then, the code phrase tells the Solarized Dark theme what color to show should be in the next line. The way it should look:
Note that “CSS” may change to “Tex” or another phrase depending on what you want to make. Below, we’ll talk about that.
Type Second Line
Well, the second line needs to be your text typed out the way you usually do, like you usually do. Then, hold down “Shift + Enter” to create a new line. The message is sent when you press the “Enter” button.
Type Third Line
There should be three more backquotes on the third line of the code block: (“`). This line doesn’t change, no matter what you’re hoping for. It should look like this:
Because we used “` CSS, The text should look like this:
Inputting Text
Two main ways to enter text are: The first thing you can do is make a text file on your computer with the codes for the different colors of text you can use this way. You can then cut and paste the parts you want to use.
Another way to do this is to enter the code block into the Discord chat engine, line by line. Type a line, then hit “Shift + Enter” to create a new line without sending the message to Discord at the same time. Then, type the second line and hit “Shift + Enter.” In the third line, type “Enter” and send it.
This method has some problems, but they can be worked around. First, you have to do this for each line of text you want to color. You can’t only turn the color on or off. Your text shows up in a box on Discord as a second thing.
Your Color Options
You can use the highlight.js codes to get seven new colors, in addition to the default grey, instead of just grey. The markdown codes start to make sense after you learn these. Don’t be afraid to play around and try to find new codes. Here are the codes and some examples of what they look like.
Plain grey (But In A Box)
“`Sample Text“`
Green (Sort Of)
“`css
Sample text
“`
Note: CSS is only putting the text in a grey box. Then again, we’ll keep the thing here because it usually works very well for most people.
Because there is another way to make green text, you can use the diff method. It looks this way:
“`diff
+This text is going to be great!
“`
Before your text, add a ‘+. ‘ The color changes to green. Use this one, too:
“`json
“Sample text”
“`
Keep in mind that json won’t work without quotation marks.
Cyan
“`yaml
Sample text
“`
Yellow
“`http
Sample text
“`
Orange
“`arm
Sample text
“`
Red
“`excel
Sample text
“`
(Another flaky one).
Yellowish?
Well, there are a couple of ways to get Yellow text. Most people agree that the first method is a good one. However, the second method only highlights some words.
“`fix
This is a new Message
“`
“`elm
Sample text Goes here
“`
When you use the command elm, only words that start with capital letters
Blue
“`ini
[This text will be blue]
“`
Well, another way to get blue text is to use the CSS method with dashes. For example, the way it should look:
“`css
.sample-text-goes-here
“`
Make sure to put the period before the text, as shown above.
Advanced Techniques
This is just one way to get colored text, but there are other ways to do it that are more complicated. In some ways, this works. For example, when a developer writes a program, these formats are used to show code blocks.
The text after the “` tells highlight. In this case, js tells you which scripting language it should be formatting, and there are some simple ways to cast colors right in a line.
Here are some languages you can use and ways to make the color you want. Then, find around with them, and you’ll soon be writing bright text messages all the time.
You can also use different brackets to get the look you want if you want to. Disappointed by your blue options? Try it:
Then there’s this clever way to color-code text:
Finally, you can use “`tex to create some very colorful messages. If you want your text to look different, you can use different symbols.
If you want to check more about Highlight.js, go to Highlight.js.org, or join the Discord server Discord Highlight.js.
Things To Try
All of the above inputs don’t work for everyone, and we found out why. If the CSS doesn’t work, you can try:
“`CSS
sample text
“`
If this method is used, it seems to fix most CSS problems. However, discord Desktop App and web browser users may have to type markdown codes differently after this fix was put in place. Nevertheless, it works OK to copy and paste the markdown you’ve made on your desktop so that you can find it quickly when you need it again.
Discord Bots
Discord Bots can change the colors of roles on your server. Unfortunately, many of these Bots only change the colors of roles, but not the text. Unfortunately, there aren’t any bots that will make it easier to change the color of your text.
If you’re even more skilled at using Discord, you can also send messages that have embeds and webhooks in them. Well, these are used to show colored blocks and markdown text. You can check out how this feature works by going to Discord Webhook.
Other Ways To Change The Text
There are more choices for you to play around with your text on Discord than before.
1 – Bold – **This is Bold**
2 – Italics – *This is Italicized*
3 – Bold & Italicized – *** This is Bold and Italicized***
4 – Underlined – _This makes Underlined text_
5 – Strikethrough – ~~This is strike through text~~
You learn more about Discord the more you know about it. There is always more to learn.
The more you play with these options, the more you’ll see that you can do things like make text __*** underlined, bold, and italicized***__.
Once you’re an expert, you might want to show others how to make these changes to their phones.
Set a backslash between the content like “Italicized” to make it stand out.
FAQs: Change Discord Text Color
If Some Of These Aren’t Working, What Can I Do?
Our tests found that using the markdowns above on the Discord desktop app worked better than on the web client. If these codes don’t work for you, try the app instead. It doesn’t matter which version of Discord you have. Some of these techniques work better than others, no matter which one you use. But, overall, they aren’t bad.
Is There A Discord Bot That Can Color Text?
If you type “change discord text color” into a search engine, you’ll show a lot of bots that can do that for you. You should do a wide search and look at the right ones for you. Check out the reviews and the abilities of each bot, then add them to your server and use them.
What Else Can I Do If These Aren’t Working For Me?
Most of the time, our readers don’t like how the examples above don’t work because Discord only reads the backtick, not quotation marks. On your keyboard, in the upper left corner, you will see the backtick key with the tilde option above. Use that key rather than the quotation marks.