--- title: "Discord Colored Text Generator: ANSI Color Codes" description: "Make colored text for Discord: select any word, pick a text or background color, add bold or underline, and copy the ANSI code block. Live preview and templates." url: "https://fromflow.dev/tools/discord-colored-text/" index: "https://fromflow.dev/llms.txt" --- Free Discord tool # Discord colored text generator Type a message, select any word, and color it — eight text colors, eight backgrounds, bold, and underline. Copy the ready ANSI code block and paste it into any Discord channel. [Home](https://fromflow.dev/) › Discord colored text generator Text ✕ Background ✕ B U Clear styles Patch 1.4 is live! + Daily rewards for every member ~ Faster matchmaking - Removed the old ranked maps Select a word, then pick a color. Nothing selected? The color goes on all of it. Templates Patch notes Status board Rainbow Warning Game stats Preview Desktop Mobile # general youToday at 9:41 PM Patch 1.4 is live! + Daily rewards for every member ~ Faster matchmaking - Removed the old ranked maps 📱 Discord's mobile apps show this block without colors — keep the words meaningful on their own. ANSI code block 160 / 2,000 characters ```ansi ␛ [1;4;36mPatch 1.4 is live! ␛ [0m ␛ [1;32m+ ␛ [0mDaily rewards for every member ␛ [1;33m~ ␛ [0mFaster matchmaking ␛ [1;31m- ␛ [0mRemoved the old ranked maps ``` Over Discord's 2,000-character limit — shorten the text. Copy for Discord Copy for bot code Let your bot post colored logs → ## Discord ANSI color codes Each code goes between the escape character and m, like ␛[31m. Combine codes with a semicolon: ␛[1;4;32m is bold, underlined green. Code Text color 30 ■ Gray 31 ■ Red 32 ■ Green 33 ■ Yellow 34 ■ Blue 35 ■ Pink 36 ■ Cyan 37 ■ White Code Background 40 ■ Firefly dark blue 41 ■ Orange 42 ■ Marble blue 43 ■ Greyish turquoise 44 ■ Gray 45 ■ Indigo 46 ■ Light gray 47 ■ White Code Effect 0 Reset every style 1 Bold 4 Underline ## Your bot can post color-coded logs FromFlow builds your own Discord bot that writes every join, warning, and ban to a log channel — in color, around the clock, with no code. Create my bot See the logging bot → No code. Free 3-day trial. # mod-log 🤖 Your Bot ✓ APP Today at 9:41 PM [JOIN] alex joined the server [WARN] spam link removed from @raider [BAN] @raider banned — 3 warnings 160 Copy for Discord FromFlow Create your own Discord bot No code. Free 3-day trial. Sign Up ## How colored text works in Discord Discord colors text inside code blocks tagged ansi. Each color starts with an invisible escape character followed by a code such as [31m for red, and stays on until a reset code [0m. You can't type the escape character on a normal keyboard, which is why colored text needs a generator: you pick colors visually, and the copied block already contains the invisible characters. ## Eight text colors and eight backgrounds Codes 30 to 37 set the text color — gray, red, green, yellow, blue, pink, cyan, and white. Codes 40 to 47 set a background, 1 makes text bold, and 4 underlines it. Discord renders these with its own palette, so the preview here uses the exact colors Discord shows instead of terminal colors. ## Colored text on Discord mobile The Discord mobile apps show ANSI code blocks as plain monospace text without colors. Desktop and the web app show them in full color. Write messages that still read well without color — use words like OK or ERROR next to the color — so phone readers don't miss the meaning. ## Older tricks: diff, fix, and css code blocks Before ANSI support, people colored text by abusing syntax highlighting: lines starting with + in a diff block turn green, - turns red, and a fix block shows yellow. Those tricks only give a few colors per line and depend on the highlighter. ANSI gives you any color on any word, and backgrounds too. ## Color-coded logs, posted for you Colored text shines in logs: green for joins, red for bans, yellow for warnings. A [Discord logging bot](https://fromflow.dev/discord-logging-bot/) posts every moderation action and member event to a channel automatically — no code, hosted 24/7. More free tools ## Useful Discord utilities [Emoji Downloader](https://fromflow.dev/tools/discord-emoji-downloader/) [Timestamp Generator](https://fromflow.dev/tools/timestamp/) [Text Formatter](https://fromflow.dev/tools/text-formatter/) [Embed Builder](https://fromflow.dev/tools/embed/) [Avatar Downloader](https://fromflow.dev/tools/avatar-downloader/) FromFlow ## Create your own Discord bot No code. Free 3-day trial. Try for free [With AI](https://fromflow.dev/ai-discord-bot-maker/) FAQ ## Discord colored text FAQ ### How do you type in color on Discord? Wrap your text in a code block tagged ansi and put an ANSI color code before the words you want colored. This generator builds the block for you — select a word, pick a color, and copy. ### What colors can you use in Discord text? Eight text colors (gray, red, green, yellow, blue, pink, cyan, white) and eight background colors, plus bold and underline. Discord doesn't support custom hex colors in messages. ### Does Discord colored text work on mobile? Not yet. The mobile apps show ANSI blocks as plain text. Colors appear on Discord desktop and in the browser. ### Why is my Discord colored text not showing colors? Usually the code block is missing the ansi tag right after the three backticks, the invisible escape character got lost when copying, or you're viewing it on mobile. Copy the block again from this page and paste it as is. ### Can Discord bots send colored text? Yes. A bot can send the same ansi code block in a message or an embed description. Use Copy for bot code to get the text with escape sequences written out for your code. ### Can I color text without a code block? No. Normal Discord messages can't be colored; only role colors and code blocks show color. Colored text always appears in a monospace code block.