How To Change Colors In My Name Guide

Veteran Quake players know all about it, but many new players wonder how to have colors in the Quake Live nickname and clantag.
This is something very easy as all it requires is the addition of color codes. Each color has its own number and by using a ^ you can tell Quake to interprete what follows in that color.
^1 = Red
^2 = Green
^3 = Yellow
^4 = Blue
^5 = Cyan (light blue)
^6 = Magenta (purple)
^7 = White

Other colors are not yet supported.

You can set the colors in your name manually by editing your Quake Live config:

seta name “^1Flo^2wer^3Po^4wer”
This will give FlowerPower

Or just change the nickname colors directly in the console (( Press ` under Esc ))

/name ^1Flo^2wer^3Po^4wer

(It is impossible to change your nickname in Quake Live, but you can add colors! So don’t bother trying a different name, Quake Live will not accept it.)

Colored text messages also works in general ingame chat. Although most will not have time to chat with colors, many like to implement it using chatbinds.

Example:
bind p “say ^1:^4p” will give :p

Keep in mind that in Quake Live there is a length limit for nickname and clantag, 15 and 5 respectively, but this does not include the color codes! Have fun changing the colors in your nickname!

[sperg]

^^0 for black usernames, YES YOU NEED THE EXTRA CARET FOR USERNAMES YOU CAN ALSO COLOR IT WITH A EXTRA CARET, however you can just do ^0 for black text in game chat

[Hioshicos]

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[p [ f s .]

so after Steam you would have to enter the color codes in your Steam name profile instead of in-game
so ^1pcfs would be in red, but would look like ^1pcfs in my Steam Friendlist

[Piggy]

^1p^5i^2g^3g^4y

[^7a^5y^7n^5v]

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[Benis]

Is It still working??

[DadangMauAdekImutLucu]

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[spenfur]

^1Flo^2wer^3Po^4wer

[jiwas]

you can also do ^0 to make it black.

[P4F►Hawkeye]

What do you do if you want to color a number
e.g. Make the number 0 red
^20 does not work