How do I install Colorful Books?

Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. Download the .jar. Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile. Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

What Minecraft version does Colorful Books work with?

The listing gives Minecraft 26.1.2. This is the version stated by the author or source site, not something we verified ourselves.

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Colorful Books

by boyonk · on Modrinth

Decorate, organize & display your books with colour! Works with Lecterns, Chiseled Bookshelves & Enchanting Tables!

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📚 Colorful Books

4 Books: Book dyed yellow, Written Book dyed lime, Book and Quill dyed cyan & Enchanted book dyed red

🎨 Dyeing & Undyeing

Dye as vanilla does it! Combine dyes with a Book, Book and Quill, Written Book or Enchanted Book in crafting grid to give it a splash of color. Wash off your dye by using a dyed book on a Cauldron with water in it. Don't worry, the ink of your written pages won't come off! 2 GUIs: Inventory, where a Book and Quill is combined with Purple Dye to dye it & Crafting Table, where an already dyed Book is combined with White, Blue & Yellow dye to give it a unique tint. Outside of the GUIs: Ari is looking down at her hands, Steve is looking at a Crafting Table & Sunny is washing the dye of a book in a Water Cauldron

✒️ Lectern, Writing & Librarian

Write with color! Book and Quills & Written Books which are dyed will display their dye on a Lectern or in their respective GUIs for everyone to see. Librarians will still accept dyed books for their Trades, and even keep the dye! 2 GUIs: Book and Quill, on the sign page, showing the black cover of the book & Villager Trading, where the select trade is converting a book into an enchanted book. Outside of the GUIs: Efe signing a black Book and Quill, a Librarian looking confused at her & a Lectern displaying a Red Book

✨ Enchanting Table & Chiseled Bookshelves

Display with pride! When crafting an Enchanting Table with a dyed book, the Enchanting Table will display a dyed book in the world and in the GUI. Chiseled Bookshelves will also display the color of their books, allowing you to organize and decorate! 2 GUIs: Enchanting Table GUI, with an Iron Sword & 5 Lapis, the book is green & Crafting Table where an Enchanting Table is crafted with a pink dyed book. Outside of GUIs: Makena is standing by Chiseled Bookshelves with differently coloured books in it, she is looking at a Green dyed book ontop of the Enchanting Table. Alex is standing behind the chiseled bookshelves, looking at a Crafting Table

🏦 Enchanted Books & Loot

Enchant with mysteriouly colorful books! Enchanted Books found as Loot will be dyed based on their Enchantments. If a book has multiple enchantments, it will blend them!
1 GUI: Chest with loot, and a tooltip showing an Enchanted Book that is "Dyed". Outside of GUIs: Kai jumps as a Vault shoots out an Enchanted Book dyed white & Ari looks into a chest

Quick facts

Edition: Minecraft Java
File type: .jar
Minecraft version listed: 26.1.2
How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.

Verified by MCModsHub

Ships as colorful-books-1.5+26.1.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
Download size: 157 KB
Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working

These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.

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