Descriptive
ModCustomize your in-game name with (basically) no limits!
Type
Mod
Modrinth Downloads
426
Modrinth ID
C9EtSpDt
Last Updated
Jul 29, 2026
Description

Why have a boring white name when you could have this?

Colors. Formatting. Animations. Your name, your style.
⚠️ Project is now in Beta! Expect some bugs. ⚠️
🎨 Pick your color, any color
🟦 Solid — RGB sliders + live hex input. Fine tune your color to your liking.
🌈 Rainbow — Animated, cycling through every color.
🎨 Gradient — Two colors blended together.
✍️ Make it highlighted
Stack any combination of:
Bold · Italic · Underline · Strikethrough
Yes, you can select all four at once.
🎬 Add some movement
Animation How it looks 🏀 Bounce
🌊 Wave
⚡ Glitch
🕰️ Pendulum
💓 Pulse
😵 Shake
🎷 Swing
🌀 Turbulence
〰️ Wiggle
🌅 Fade
Pick one animation, stack a few together, or enable them all. It's entirely up to you.
Fine-tune how fast everything plays with the speed slider. Anywhere from a 0.1× speed to an unhinged 5.0× speed.
✅ Works in Multiplayer
Here's how it works:
- Server has Descriptive installed — your styled name is shown to everyone automatically, no extra setup needed.
- Vanilla or unmodded server — Descriptive will ask if you want to connect to an external relay server so other Descriptive users can still see your name. This connection is opt-in, you can enable this function in the Descriptive Settings > Toggle Relay... Menu.
📥 Getting started
🎮 Minecraft Client
- Download Descriptive and the Fabric API.
- Drop it in your mods/ folder
- Boot up Minecraft
- Launch a world, press U or type /descriptive config and go customize!
🖥️ Minecraft Server
- Download Descriptive
- Drop it in your server's mods/ or plugins/ folder
- Start the server. You can allow or disallow players to use the mod in the descriptive-server.toml file
⚠️ Only download from Modrinth. Don't trust random sites!
🐛 Something broken?
Open an issue on GitHub. Describe your issue, include what version you're on, what other mods you have and any crash logs. We'll sort it out.
📩 Contact
Reach out to us at [email protected]
Enjoyed it? A ❤️ on Modrinth or a ⭐ on GitHub genuinely makes our day.
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