Discord Color Text Generator

Generator

Each segment is a run of text with its own color. Add one per color you want, then copy the block at the bottom.

Server status: ONLINE
Next maintenance Friday 02:00 UTC

```ansi
Server status: [1;32mONLINE[0m
[37mNext maintenance [0m[4;33mFriday 02:00 UTC[0m
```

What Discord changed in August 2026

For years Discord rendered ANSI codes with a fixed Solarized palette. In August 2026 it swapped that out, and two things changed that most guides on this topic have not caught up with.

Backgrounds are different colors now. Codes 40 to 47 used to be an unrelated set with no counterpart in the text row — it included a blurple, a cream white, and three near-identical grays. They are now simply the eight text hues, so 41 is a red background because 31 is red text.

Colors follow the reader’s theme. The old palette was one fixed set of hexes for everybody. The new one is defined per theme, so the same message looks different to someone on Light than to someone on Onyx. Two consequences worth knowing: a color you picked because it looked right in Dark may be much heavier in Light, and 30 is pure black in every theme, which makes it unreadable for anyone using a dark theme unless you pair it with a background.

The preview in the generator switches between all four, so you can check a message the way your readers will actually see it.

How Discord colored text works

Discord has no color syntax in normal messages. The only route is a code block tagged ansi, which makes Discord read ANSI escape sequences — the same ones that color a terminal.

```ansi
\u001b[1;32mDeploy finished\u001b[0m
```

Read that sequence left to right: \u001b is the ESC character, [ opens the sequence, 1;32 is bold plus green, and m ends it. Everything after that is colored until \u001b[0m resets it.

The \u001b shown above is notation, not something you type. In a real message that spot holds a single invisible character. This is the reason copying a code sample off a web page usually produces gray text — the character does not survive the trip.

Text colors (30–37)

Background colors (40–47)

Styles

Discord supports three: 0 reset, 1 bold, and 4 underline. Italic, blink, and the 256-color and true-color extensions are not supported — this is the classic eight-color terminal palette and nothing more.

Why colored text stops working

The ESC character got dropped

By far the most common cause. ESC is U+001B, an invisible control character. If you retyped an example, or selected an example with the mouse, it is gone and Discord shows plain monospace. Use the Copy button above.

The block is not tagged ansi

Three backticks alone give an untagged code block, which never reads color codes. It has to be ```ansi, with no space between the backticks and the word.

Single backticks instead of three

One backtick makes inline code. Inline code takes no language tag at all, so escape sequences stay literal.

No reset at the end

Without ESC[0m, the color runs on to everything after it inside the block. The generator closes every segment for you.

Editing the message on mobile

Some mobile composers strip control characters when you edit an existing message, which silently removes the ESC bytes from a message that rendered correctly when you sent it.

Mobile

For years the iOS and Android apps showed ansi blocks as plain monospace, and most guides still say colored text does not work on phones. Recent app versions do render it. Support depends on the installed version, so treat color as an enhancement rather than something every reader will see — the text itself is always legible either way.

Frequently asked questions

Can you get colored text on Discord?

Yes, but only inside a code block tagged ansi. Open a message with three backticks followed immediately by the word ansi, put an ANSI escape sequence in front of your text, and close with three backticks. There is no color option in the message box itself and no way to color a normal message.

What does ``` do in Discord?

Three backticks open a multi-line code block. Adding a language name straight after them, like ansi or diff, tells Discord how to highlight the contents. The ansi language is the one that reads color escape codes; every other language applies its own syntax highlighting instead.

How to type colored text?

You cannot fully type it, because the sequence starts with ESC (U+001B), an invisible control character no keyboard produces. Typing the six characters backslash-u-0-0-1-b does nothing. Use the generator on this page and press Copy, which puts the real control character on your clipboard.

How to get rainbow text on Discord?

Split the text into one segment per letter or word and give each a different color code from 31 to 36. Add a segment per letter in the generator above and click a different swatch on each. Discord has eight colors, not a gradient, so a rainbow is a repeating eight-step cycle.

Did Discord change its ANSI colors?

Yes. In August 2026 Discord replaced the old Solarized palette. The biggest change is the background row: codes 40 to 47 used to be an unrelated set that included a blurple and a cream white, and they are now the same eight hues as the text colors. Colors are also theme-aware now, so one code renders as a different shade in Light, Ash, Dark, and Onyx.

Why is my Discord colored text showing up plain or as raw codes?

Almost always a missing ESC character. Copying the visible part of an example, or retyping it, leaves out the invisible U+001B and Discord renders the block as plain monospace. The other common causes are tagging the block anything other than ansi, putting a space between the backticks and the word ansi, and using single backticks, which make inline code that never parses colors.

Does Discord colored text work on mobile?

Recent versions of the iOS and Android apps do render ansi blocks in color, which was not true for years. Support still depends on the installed app version, so older installs show the block as plain monospace instead. The message itself is never broken — it simply appears uncolored.

Is colored text visible to everyone in the server?

Everyone sees the same message, but not necessarily the same colors. Each reader's Discord theme decides the exact shade, and anyone on an app version that does not render ansi sees plain monospace text. Never rely on color alone to carry meaning.

For every other Discord syntax — bold, headers, subtext, spoilers, timestamps and masked links — see the Discord text formatting guide.