Minecraft Username Color Checker
Enter a Minecraft username or UUID to check your Minecraft username color — the exact locator bar marker color Java Edition assigns to that account.
Minecraft Username Color Checker
This tool checks your Minecraft username color the same way the game computes it — there's no separate lookup table or guesswork involved. Enter either a username or a raw UUID above; either way, the result is the real locator bar marker color for that account, shown as a swatch alongside its hex and RGB values.
What Is the Minecraft Locator Bar Color?
The locator bar is the HUD strip that shows the direction of nearby players in multiplayer, added in Java Edition 1.21.6 (Bedrock Edition 1.21.90). Each player appears on it as a colored marker, and by default that color is generated automatically from the player's account UUID — not chosen by the player, and not related to their username, skin, or cape.
How to Check a Minecraft Username Color
- Enter a Minecraft username or a UUID, if you already have one, in the tool above.
- Click “Check locator color.” For a username, we first resolve it to its account UUID.
- The swatch shown is the color that actually renders on the locator bar for that account — you can expand “Raw pre-brightness value” to see the unadjusted UUID-derived color too.
Minecraft Locator Bar Color Checker
This checker reproduces Minecraft's own color computation rather than approximating it: it takes the account's UUID, runs the same hashing step the game runs, and applies the same brightness normalization before drawing the swatch. If you enter a username, we resolve it to a UUID first using a live Mojang lookup — the same one behind our Username Checker— so a name that isn't registered to any account has no color to compute.
Minecraft Locator Bar Colors
There isn't a fixed palette of locator bar colors the way there is for chat text — each UUID produces its own color across the full RGB range, so two players can end up with very similar or very different markers with no pattern to predict in advance. A server can still override the automatic color for any player using a scoreboard team color or the /waypoint command, both of which take priority over the UUID-derived default.
How Minecraft Locator Colors Are Determined
The game runs the account's UUID through Java's standard UUID.hashCode() method, which folds the 128-bit UUID down to a single 32-bit number. The lowest 24 bits of that number become a raw red/green/blue color. The renderer then converts that raw color to hue/saturation/brightness, keeps the hue and saturation exactly as they are, and resets the brightness to a fixed 90% before drawing the marker — which is why the color you see in-game is usually a bit brighter than the raw UUID-derived value.
Notice your username isn't part of that calculation at all — only the account's UUID is, and a UUID never changes even when you rename your account. That's why your Minecraft username color stays exactly the same no matter how many times you change your username, and why this tool resolves a username to its UUID before computing anything. Don't have an account yet? Our username generator can help you find one to check first. Want to see the raw UUID itself, in dashed or undashed format? Use our UUID Lookup tool.
Java Edition vs Bedrock Edition
Everything above is specific to Java Edition. On Bedrock Edition, the locator bar exists too, but the color isn't derived from anything permanent — Bedrock assigns each player a color at random every time they join a session, so it changes from one play session to the next and can't be looked up or predicted in advance. If you're playing Bedrock, there's no fixed “your color” to check.
Minecraft Username Color vs Chat Color
Your Minecraft username color (the locator bar marker above) is a completely different thing from chat text color — it has nothing to do with coloring the text you type. If you want to style chat messages, signs, or books instead, use the chat color and formatting previewer below.
Important: this does not change your actual account username
Mojang only allows plain letters, numbers, and underscores in account usernames — no color or formatting codes. This tool styles displayed text: chat messages, signs, books, server MOTDs, nicknames set by plugins, and similar places where Minecraft renders formatting codes.
Color
Formatting
Live preview
Section-sign code (in-game chat, signs, books)
§aSteveAmpersand code (server plugins, MOTD configs)
&aSteveWhere formatting codes actually work
In vanilla Java Edition, typing § directly into chat disconnects you, and signs and books don't accept typed color codes at all — as of 1.21.6, Java removed even pasting § into a book. These codes only work in non-gameplay text (server.properties, resource pack names, world/server names set via NBT) or through commands and datapacks like /tellraw and /title. Real colored chat almost always comes from a server plugin (Paper/Spigot with something like EssentialsChat) translating & codes server-side — it's not a vanilla setting. Bedrock Edition is the exception: it supports typing these codes directly into chat, signs, and books natively.
For the full breakdown — including a complete code reference and how this compares to Minecraft's newer hex colors — see our Minecraft Chat Color Codes guide.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I check my Minecraft username color?
- Enter your username (or UUID) in the tool at the top of this page. It resolves your account's UUID if needed and shows the exact locator bar marker color Java Edition assigns to it, with hex and RGB values.
- How do I find my Minecraft locator bar color?
- Same tool, same process — 'locator bar color' and 'username color' describe the same marker on this page. Enter your username or UUID above to see it.
- Can I check a Minecraft username color with a UUID?
- Yes. The tool accepts either a username or a raw UUID directly — a UUID skips the username lookup step entirely, since the color is computed from the UUID either way.
- What determines the Minecraft locator bar color?
- Your account's UUID. The game hashes it down to a raw color, then normalizes the brightness to 90% while keeping the hue and saturation, which is the color you actually see in-game. A server can still override it with a team color or the /waypoint command.
- Does the locator bar color work on Bedrock?
- No — not because we skipped it. Bedrock Edition assigns the locator color randomly every session rather than deriving it from anything permanent, so there's no fixed value tied to your account to look up.
- Is Minecraft username color the same as chat color?
- No. Username color refers to the locator bar marker described on this page, computed from your UUID. Chat color codes are unrelated — they style text you type in chat, signs, or books, and don't affect the locator bar at all.
- Why does the tool show two different color values?
- The raw value is what the UUID hash produces before adjustment. The in-game value is what actually renders on the locator bar, after brightness is normalized to 90%.
- Will chat color codes work on every server?
- It depends on the server's configuration. Some servers disable color codes in chat entirely, while others enable them fully. Signs and books generally support formatting in both single-player and most servers.