Highlights
- Discord also enables a vibrant and colorful text chat experience, but not so well.
- Text chat has no built-in color commands and no way of doing anything “fancy” with your text at first glance.
- The text is just plain boring, so you can quickly get annoyed, but we could change the color of our text here. In this post, you will learn how to do this.

Have you ever heard of Discord, the singularly popular communication platform for gamers, developers, and groups everywhere?
Text formatting such as bold, Italic…etc. It also unlocks the most wanted, very customizable feature, that is, text color in your chat bubbles.
The usual formatting bar, which you probably know from your word processing software, does not exist in Discord for the text color change.
However, with the aid of both Markdown and bots, you can acquire colorful text for a more alluring chat experience.
However, Markdown syntax isn’t the only way you can change text color in Discord, and in this guide, we will cover everything from how to use code blocks, other tricks that make your messages pop.
What is Discord Markdown?
For formatting, Discord uses a lightweight markup language called Markdown.
Markdown is a very simple way of using symbols to make text appear in different ways, and Discord reads those keys and styles the text accordingly.
While Markdown supports text bold, italic and underline, there isn’t a built-in method in markdown using which we can set the text colors.
But Discord has code blocks and highlight, A syntax highlighting tool that allows us to display colored text (like we do with programming languages) using JS.
Ultimately, because code blocks uses so many specific syntax languages you can even create colored text messages (which just appears to be styled in different colors that the language’s highlighting rules).
Basics of Changing Text Format in Discord
Before we get into colors, it is important to understand the simplest form of text formatting in Discord. Markdown allows you to :
- Bold text using **text**
- Italicize text with *text* or _text_
- Strikethrough text with ~~text~~
- Underline text with __text__
You use these symbols at the beginning and end of the text to be formatted.
How Discord Text Colorization Works
Colorizing Text Within DiscordOne important thing to note about text coloration within Discord is that the interfaces are built using Javascript, and it uses a theme called “Solarized Dark” and also utilizes a library referred to as “highlight. js.”
When you sign into your Discord server, the first thing that is served to you client-side is a page that is built by a number of relatively complex JavaScript programs, including “highlight. js.”
While Discord itself doesn’t support changing the text color, the underlying Javascript runs in conjunction with a library called “highlight. js” script, does.
You can alter the code snippets pasted in your text chat and change these colors or highlights of words which all are printed in own (in a) text chat window.
The basic thing is to know how to give the color for a piece of text. Well, to do it, you have to place that text inside a code block. This one is a three-line text block with your text in the middle.
How to Use Colored Text in Discord
First of all, you can join any chat space (section) on Discord. It could be a DM with a friend or on your favorite text channel from a server.
- Once there, press the backtick symbol three times, like ““”. It
- Now press Shift+Enter to go to the second line of the message.
- From here, type one of several coding commands to change the text’s color.
These are the commands that give you an idea of what they look like and all the colors that are available.
- Red
- “`diff
- -(text)
- “`
- Orange
- “`css
- [text]
- “`
- Yellow
- “`fix
- text
- “`
- Dark Green
- “`bash
- “text”
- “`
- Light Green
- “`diff
- +text
- “`
- Blue
- “`ini
- [text]
- “`
If you type the commands correctly, then it should do that in the right color. Now you can enter the text and press Enter; it will be sent in a textbox with the given color.
The problem is that you will see symbols before each of the commands as well, but at least that means your text actually changed color on Discord.
Change the text color in Discord and host all the blindingly bright chats you want as long as your heart desires.
Advanced Text Color Customization with Discord Bots
Another alternative for code block tricks with limited colors you could always use a Discord bot that provides more flexibility in text formatting and colors.
This is something many bots allow for, which can help you to change the text color in a much easier way!
Popular Bots for Text Color Customization
- Dyno Bot
- Dyno Bot is a widely used moderation bot with text modification options, colored text being one of them.
- Carl-bot
- It provides reaction roles and embeds, enabling you to put colored text in your messages.
- Tatsu Bot
- Tatsu supports suing embeds for changing text color.
How to Set Up a Discord Bot for Colored Text
- Invite the Bot to your server. Every bot has a button on its home page that will allow you to invite it into your Discord server.
- Bot Permissions Configuration. Check to confirm that it has enough permissions to send messages in your text channels.
- The Bot Commands make it easy to create embeds or send special text messages. The bot docs often give you commands for text coloring or customization.
Troubleshooting Text Color Formatting Issues
Here are a few common solutions if Discord does not change font color:
Check Syntax and Spacing
Just 1 space is not in the right place, and your code block won’t work. Use the same syntax and language definition as in these examples.
Unsupported Languages
Note that not all languages support syntax highlighting in Discord. If text highlighting support does not work as expected in the programming language of your choice, you can switch it to diff, ini, fix, or other supported languages.
Conflicting Plugins or Bots
If you’re using a Discord bot, make sure it’s installed correctly and there are no permission issues.
Certain bots need special permissions for text formatting or content embedding.
Wrapping Up
While Discord itself does not support changing text color directly, it gives you some essential methods to achieve colored text in your messages — Markdown.
This guide gives the methods to create a fancy text for every chat you have! Bots can also allow for even greater control of text appearance with more complicated commands available to advanced users.
Let those words drip with emotion and punctuation, let them show how important something is, or even bold a message among friends; you would be surprised that bold text in Discord can look pretty good.
So, that’s all we have for you about how to change Discord color text. We hope that this guide has helped you.
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