ChatColor enum
Bukkit Color Codes
Bukkit, Spigot and Paper expose Minecraft's 16 color slots as a Java enum called ChatColor. The values are identical to the game's own codes. What changes is how you write them: ChatColor.DARK_RED in plugin code, &4 in a YAML config.
Plugin (Java)
player.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Hello");config.yml
prefix: '&c[Server]&r 'Translate at runtime
ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', s)Every code
Bukkit Color Codes: full list
Click any value to copy it. The hex column is what the game actually renders, so you can match it exactly outside the game.
| Enum | Code | Color | Hex |
|---|---|---|---|
ChatColor.BLACK
|
&0 / §0 | Black | #000000 |
ChatColor.DARK_BLUE
|
&1 / §1 | Dark Blue | #0000AA |
ChatColor.DARK_GREEN
|
&2 / §2 | Dark Green | #00AA00 |
ChatColor.DARK_AQUA
|
&3 / §3 | Dark Aqua | #00AAAA |
ChatColor.DARK_RED
|
&4 / §4 | Dark Red | #AA0000 |
ChatColor.DARK_PURPLE
|
&5 / §5 | Dark Purple | #AA00AA |
ChatColor.GOLD
|
&6 / §6 | Gold | #FFAA00 |
ChatColor.GRAY
|
&7 / §7 | Gray | #AAAAAA |
ChatColor.DARK_GRAY
|
&8 / §8 | Dark Gray | #555555 |
ChatColor.BLUE
|
&9 / §9 | Blue | #5555FF |
ChatColor.GREEN
|
&a / §a | Green | #55FF55 |
ChatColor.AQUA
|
&b / §b | Aqua | #55FFFF |
ChatColor.RED
|
&c / §c | Red | #FF5555 |
ChatColor.LIGHT_PURPLE
|
&d / §d | Light Purple | #FF55FF |
ChatColor.YELLOW
|
&e / §e | Yellow | #FFFF55 |
ChatColor.WHITE
|
&f / §f | White | #FFFFFF |
Worth knowing
ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', message) is the call that turns the & form in a config file into the § form the client renders. Getting the two mixed up is the single most common cause of literal &c showing up in chat.