# 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: -------------------------- Escape | Output -------------------------- $$ | 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: -------------------- Code | Name -------------------- 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