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💡 What is Colored?

Colored is a simple plugin that allows your players to format their chat, the same way as you would format your server's MOTD. Simply type color codes into the chat, and your message will be automatically formatted.

🎨 Color Chart

Code	Color	Code	Color	Code	Color	Code	Color
&0	Black	&5	Dark Purple	&a	Green	&f	White
&1	Dark Blue	&6	Gold	&b	Aqua	&r	Reset
&2	Dark Green	&7	Light Gray	&c	Red
&3	Dark Aqua	&8	Gray	&d	Purple
&4	Dark Red	&9	Blue	&e	Yellow

✨ Format Codes

Code	Formatting
&l	Bold
&m	Strikethrough
&n	Underline
&o	Italic
&k	Obfuscated

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🤝 Contributing

Don't be afraid to contribute! This is how the plugin gets better.

• Fixes: Submit a PR for any bugs you find.
• Features: Create an issue and label it as an enhancement.

🚀 Release Publishing (GitHub Releases)

The release workflow is in .github/workflows/build-and-publish.yml and runs on published releases.

• The plugin version is set from github.ref_name (-PreleaseVersion=...) so plugin metadata and published versions match the Git tag.
  • Local/CI precedence is -PreleaseVersion first, then GITHUB_REF_NAME as a fallback.
• Release publishing runs clean test verifySingleReleaseJar before upload.
• Build artifact validation uses verifySingleReleaseJar and publishing fails unless exactly one release JAR exists in build/libs (excluding -sources, -javadoc, -dev, -plain jars).
• Required repository secrets:
  • MODRINTH_TOKEN
  • HANGAR_TOKEN
• Current project identifiers used by the workflow:
  • Modrinth project_id: colored
  • Hangar project_id: QuickMash/Colored

Recommended local release check:

./gradlew clean verifySingleReleaseJar -PreleaseVersion=v1.0.0