Discord is a popular free voice, video, and text chat platform targeted mainly towards gamers. With over 150 million active users, Discord offers seamless communication options to connect game players around the world.

Although the Discord user interface does not natively support text coloring, you can still spice up your chats by making colored text using Markdown syntax. This guide will demonstrate multiple methods to color your text in Discord chats and channels.

Why Make Colored Text in Discord?

Here are some prominent reasons why you may want to make colored text in Discord:

  • Make your text stand out in busy gaming chats and channels
  • Highlight important announcements or alerts for other users
  • Categorize chat messages by user groups or chat topics using different colors
  • Show skill levels, power-ups, or other status indicators with text colors
  • Demonstrate emotion more clearly and accurately
  • Add visual flair to boring walls of text for enhanced readability
  • Express your unique personality through stylized text

So if you want your Discord chats to be more vibrant and engaging, coloring your text can go a long way!

How to Make Colored Text in Discord

The process of generating colored text requires enclosing your message within specialized Markdown code blocks. The main steps are:

  1. Open Discord and navigate to the target text channel
  2. Add a code block using backticks (`) to enclose your text
  3. Specify a code language to define the text color
  4. Type your message within the code block
  5. Close the code block with backticks
  6. Send your message

Here is the basic syntax to follow:

“`[code_language] Your colored message here
“`

Next, let‘s explore some specific code languages you can utilize to produce different text colors in Discord.

Green Colored Text

You can make both light and dark shades of green colored text by using these code languages:

  • diff – For light green
  • json/yaml/bash – For dark green

Here is an example for each method:

Light Green Text

“`diff

  • I love Linux
    “`

The diff language will output light green text if you prepend each line with a + symbol.

Dark Green Text

“`json
"I love Linux"
“`

The json language will display dark green text if you enclose your message in double quotes "".

Similarly, you can use yaml and bash code languages to produce the same dark green colored text.

Yellow Colored Text

You can make yellow colored text with the fix code language:

“`fix
I love Linux
“`

The text within this code block will render in bright yellow.

Orange Colored Text

To generate orange colored text, use the arm code language and separate words with underscore _:

“`arm
I_love_Linux
“`

Red Colored Text

The diff language can also produce red colored text if you prepend lines with a - minus symbol:

“`diff

  • I love Linux
    “`

Blue Colored Text

For blue colored text, use the css language and separate words with hyphens -:

“`css
.I-love-Linux
“`

Make sure to place a . period before your message.

And that‘s the gist of how to create different text colors in Discord! Feel free to explore other code languages at your leisure to expose more formatting possibilities.

Crafting Multi-colored Messages

You are not just limited to a single color per message. You can mix formats to make individual words or phrases stand out with unique colors within the same block.

Here‘s an example:

“`diff

  • I -love- ++Linux++
    “`

This will output:

I love Linux

Where love displays in blue and Linux renders in bold light green.

Some key pointers when styling multi-colored messages:

  • Use code languages that do not conflict in syntax rules
  • Pay attention so you apply the right color codes to the intended words/phrases
  • Experiment freely – part of the fun lies in discovering new combinations!

Automating Colored Text with Custom CSS

Hard-coding color formats each time you compose a message can get tedious fast.

To save effort, Discord allows setting up custom CSS styles for your server or particular text channels. These custom CSS assets automatically apply pre-configured visual formats without needing manual work repeatedly.

Here is how to configure automatic colored text via custom CSS:

  1. Enable Developer Mode under User Settings > Advanced
  2. Open the target server/channel settings
  3. Select the Create Server/Channel CSS tab
  4. Add the following snippet with your desired colors:
/* User1 */
span[data-user-id="12345678901234567"] {
    color: #55ff55; 
}

/* User2 */
span[data-user-id="98765432109876543"] {
   color: red;
}
  • Replace the integers with actual user IDs traced via Developer Mode
  • Pick custom HEX or color names for the text
  • Save your CSS changes

Now the chosen users will automatically post in the specified text colors.

Creating custom CSS allows batch-formatting colors to:

  • Differentiate chat messages from specific users
  • Highlight posts from a user group like admins or mods
  • Categorize texts by chat topics or game events
  • Alert urgent status notifications or broadcast important updates

And best of all – no repetitive manual work needed!

Alternative: Faking Colored Text with Embed JSON

If you lack sufficient permissions to add custom CSS, an alternative exists to fake colored text by creatively abusing Discord‘s embed JSON format.

The technique involves structuring your message as a template embed field within an inline code block.

Here is an example mockup:

`{`color`: #00000, `description`: `I love Linux`}`

Which will render as:

I love Linux

Essentially, you are fabricating an embed minus the actual embed rendering!

To build fake colored text with JSON:

  1. Enclose your text within inline code blocks – ` `
  2. Add a `color` and `description` field
  3. Set desired hex color code
  4. Insert your message under `description`

This method can also produce multi-colored texts from a single message. But note that the end result is just simulated – right clicking will reveal the underlying JSON.

Still, it‘s handy for quick colored texts without advanced permissions.

Tips & Best Practices

Here are some tips to create better colored text effects in Discord:

Do

✅ Preview styled messages in a sandbox channel first

✅ Set text colors that make messages easy to read

✅ Use colors sparingly to avoid overwhelming visual clutter

✅ Ensure vital information remains clear even without color

Don‘t

🚫 Overuse flashy colors simply because you can

🚫 Forget light mode users when picking shades

🚫 Make text colors too similar to channel backgrounds

🚫 Use colors for clickbait or spreading misinformation

💡 Use colors tactically to organize, alert, clarify – not decorate texto indefinitely!

Conclusion

I hope this guide offered insightful techniques to create cool colored text effects in your Discord servers.

Here‘s a quick recap on key points:

  • Add code blocks with specialized languages to colorize text
  • Mix languages & symbols for multi-colored amalgamated messages
  • Automate colors through custom CSS for effortless styling
  • Fake colors by misusing embed JSON if lacking CSS permissions

So go wild, get creative, and inject some much-needed vibrancy into your gaming chats!

Let me know in the comments if you have any other fun tricks for making colored text in Discord. Happy coloring!

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