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# Add Color to Signs

You can add colors to signs in two different ways.

### Option 1: Dyes and Glow Squid Ink

Click on a sign with a dye color of your choice.

Click on a sign with a glow squid ink to make the sign brighter.

{% hint style="info" %}
The benefit of this option is that you can color sign shop signs, which cannot use the second option.
{% endhint %}

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### Option 2: Commands

The benefit of using commands is that you can add more than one color to a sign, and even could do more than one color on each line of a sign.

To use the command colors, do command space text (example: \[&1 dark blue text] would show dark blue text that says dark blue text)

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Any colors with \* means that it only works on bedrock versions of Minecraft (and not our java version server).

| Color                                                       | Code |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ---- |
| black                                                       | &0   |
| dark blue                                                   | &1   |
| dark green                                                  | &2   |
| dark aqua                                                   | &3   |
| dark red                                                    | &4   |
| dark purple                                                 | &5   |
| gold                                                        | &6   |
| grey                                                        | &7   |
| dark grey                                                   | &8   |
| blue                                                        | &9   |
| green                                                       | \&a  |
| aqua                                                        | \&b  |
| red                                                         | \&c  |
| light purple                                                | \&d  |
| yellow                                                      | \&e  |
| white                                                       | \&f  |
| minecoin gold\* (this also does not display on Playstation) | \&g  |
| quartz\*                                                    | \&h  |
| iron\*                                                      | \&i  |
| netherite\*                                                 | \&j  |
| redstone\*                                                  | \&m  |
| copper\*                                                    | \&n  |
| gold\*                                                      | \&p  |
| emerald\*                                                   | \&q  |
| diamond\*                                                   | \&s  |
| lapis\*                                                     | \&t  |
| amethyst\*                                                  | \&u  |

### Formatting Commands

| Name                | Code                                                                            | Works in Bedrock? |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- |
| **bold**            | \&l (L, but lowercase)                                                          | yes               |
| ~~strikethrough~~   | \&m                                                                             | no                |
| underline           | \&n                                                                             | no                |
| *italic*            | \&o                                                                             | yes               |
| reset               | \&r                                                                             | yes               |
| reset + add a color | \&r&<mark style="background-color:yellow;">f (put the code of the color)</mark> | yes               |