Send Colored Chat Text (tellraw)

Broadcast a custom colored message in chat

✅ Verified for Java 26.2 · Bedrock 26.32 — checked June 2026

Sends a fully styled chat message that no one can reply to or mistake for a normal chat line. On Java the message is a text component in SNBT — set color, bold, italic, underline and more (e.g. {text:"...",color:red,bold:true}). Bedrock uses the {"rawtext":[...]} form and does not support per-component color keys, so use section-sign codes inside the text for color there.

/tellraw @a {text:"Server restarting soon",color:red,bold:true}

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Java: yes
Bedrock: yes
Command block: yes
Needs cheats / OP: yes

How to use

Open chat (T on Java, / on Bedrock).
Paste the command and edit the text and color.
Press Enter — the message appears in every targeted player's chat.
Add more parts by turning the value into a list, e.g. [{text:"A "},{text:"B",color:green}].