Better Color Codes
Java resource pack listed for Minecraft 1.19–1.21. Download on the author's site.
⬇ Download on CurseForge
This pack uses vanilla core shaders to tweak the vanilla color codes, which were based on the original 16 colors available with the 1980s Color Graphics Adapter.
* colors are slightly different in the current version of this pack
The primary goal of this pack is to make the game's text colors a bit more appealing by reducing the contrast between different colors and having them fit the rainbow spectrum more properly.
The secondary goal of this pack is to serve as a template for other resource pack creators to easily tweak the game's text colors as they see fit. The color codes can be configured by editing the values defined in the rendertype_text.fsh shader file.
If you choose to include this pack's shader files in your own resource pack, credit would be appreciated. I am not the first person to figure out how to change the game's text colors using shaders, but I have managed to greatly simplify the amount of code required to do so.
This pack should work in most versions of the game, and in combination with most resource packs. The performance impact of the pack's shaders is negligible.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.19.4
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java resource packs walks through it step by step.
Better Color Codes is a free Minecraft Java resourcepack. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21, 1.20.5, 1.19.4, 1.21.4 and newer. Downloaded 730 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.