

overview
styled renaming allows you to use colours and other formatting features when renaming items in an anvil through the power of patbox's placeholder api! you can learn all about how to use it in its documentation!
what's supported?
all players can use the builtin colour tags (<red>, <blue>, etc), and also use any hex colour code with the <color> (or <c>) tag!
bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough, and obfuscated tags can also be used!
gradients can also be created using <gradient> (or <gr>) and <hard_gradient> (or <hgr>). <rainbow> comes builtin!
examples:
<red>My Swordbecomes "My Sword"<c #d4c8ff><b>styled</> <c #f580ad>renamingbecomes "styled renaming"
the italics seen when renaming an item is also removed by default when using text formatting.
(there are also more tags, which can only be used by operators.)
where do i install the mod?
the mod only needs to be installed on the server! however, installing it on the client will result in some additional quality-of-life features:
- the maximum length for the anvil text box has been increased to account for tags
- putting a renamed item into an anvil will show its name with any tags
- other small fixes
also note that the mod depends on polymer and text placeholder api, and you'll need to download them.
credits
- colorful anvils - basis for some of this mod's code!
- Patbox - made the placeholder api mod, and a bunch of other cool mods too!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.2
- 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.
- Ships as styled_renaming-1.4.0+26.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 9 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.