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MOTD Formatting Codes
If motd-formatting is enabled in the config file, you
can use special escape codes to easily get bold, coloured, italic, and
other types of specially-formatted text.
Our formatting character is ‘$’, and this followed by specific letters means that the text after it is formatted in the given way. Here are the character pairs and what they output:
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Escape | Output
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$$ | Dollar sign ($)
$b | Bold
$c | Color code
$i | Italics
$u | Underscore
$r | Reset
--------------------------Color codes
After the color code ($c), you can use square brackets
to specify which foreground and background colors to output. For
example:
This line outputs red text:
This is $c[red]really cool text!
This line outputs red text with a light blue background:
This is $c[red,light blue]22% cooler!
If you’re familiar with IRC colors you can also use the raw numbers
you’re used to: This is $c13pink text
Here are the color names we support, and which IRC colors they map to:
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Code | Name
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00 | white
01 | black
02 | blue
03 | green
04 | red
05 | brown
06 | magenta
07 | orange
08 | yellow
09 | light green
10 | cyan
11 | light cyan
12 | light blue
13 | pink
14 | grey
15 | light grey
--------------------In addition, some newer clients can make use of the colour codes 16-98, though they don’t have any names assigned. Take a look at this table to see which colours these numbers are: https://modern.ircdocs.horse/formatting.html#colors-16-98