MiniMessage is the modern text format used by Paper, Velocity and many plugins. A gradient is written as your text , and this tool writes that tag for you.

My plugin does not support MiniMessage. What do I use?

Copy the "&#hex" output instead. It colours each character with a 1.16+ hex code and works in most chat, sign and MOTD plugins that accept the & format.

Do gradients work on older servers?

Per-character hex colours need Minecraft 1.16 or newer. On older versions you are limited to the 16 classic colours, so a gradient will fall back to the nearest ones.

MC Tools Text & chat

Gradient Generator

Blend colours across your text and copy it as MiniMessage, hex or JSON.

Type and colour

Rainbow (spread every colour evenly)

Colour stops

Add up to 10 stops for a multi-colour blend. Colours flow left to right across your text.

Preview and copy

MiniMessage (Paper, Velocity)

Hex codes (&#RRGGBB · 1.16+)

Section sign (§ · vanilla)

JSON text (/tellraw)