Minecraft Sign Generator
Colored text on a sign, on both sides, without typing any of the command yourself. Write your four lines, pick the wood and the dye, and copy the result.
A code goes into the line you last typed in. A sign fits about fifteen characters a line, and the codes take up none of that room because they are not drawn.
How the front reads
Welcome
to the shop
The command
/setblock ~ ~ ~ minecraft:oak_sign{front_text:{messages:['[{"text":""},{"text":"Welcome","color":"gold"}]','[{"text":""},{"text":"to the shop","color":"white"}]','""','""'],color:"black",has_glowing_text:false}}Paste it into chat or a command block. It puts the sign where you are standing, so stand where you want it.
Options
How it works
- Type your four lines. Click into a line first, then click a color, and the code goes in at your cursor.
- Switch to the back if you want text there. A back with nothing on it is left out of the command.
- Pick the wood and the dye color, and turn on glowing text if you want it readable at night.
- Copy the command, stand where the sign should go, and paste it into chat.
- The colors are the same sixteen everywhere in the game. The color code page lists them all with their names.
The preview shows the text as the game draws it, not a picture of a wooden sign. None of the game's own artwork is used here.
Questions
- How do I use the command?
- Copy it, stand where you want the sign, and paste it into chat. It replaces the block you are standing in. You need cheats turned on in a single player world, or to be an operator on a server.
- Can I put it in a command block?
- Yes, and drop the slash at the start. A command block does not want it. Everything after that is the same.
- How much fits on a line?
- The game measures a line by how wide it is drawn rather than by counting letters, so a line of narrow letters fits more than a line of wide ones. The formatting codes take up none of that room, because they are instructions rather than letters.
- What is the difference between the dye color and a color code?
- The dye is the whole sign's color, the same as putting a dye on a sign in the game. A color code inside a line beats it for that line. Use the dye for a sign that is all one color and the codes when one word should stand out.
- What does glowing text do?
- It makes the letters bright and readable in the dark, which in the game comes from using a glow ink sac on the sign. The command sets it directly.
- Why does my apostrophe break the command?
- It does not here, and that is the point of the tool. The sign's text is written inside single quotes, so an apostrophe in a word like a shop owner's name would end the text early and the command would fail. This generator escapes it for you.
- Can I edit the sign afterwards?
- Yes. Signs can be edited in the game after they are placed, unless you wax them with honeycomb.