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Descriptive

Customize your in-game name with (basically) no limits!

FabricQuiltPaperPurpur
Loaders
FabricQuiltPaperPurpur
Downloads on Modrinth
710
Followers on Modrinth
10
versions
13
Updated
September 29, 2026Sep 29
Published
in 2025
Descriptive — Descriptive in-game preview. Settings used: - Gradient (#00FF00 to #FFFFFF) - Bold, Italic - Wave (x2 Speed) · swipe

At a glance

Runs on Fabric, Quilt, Paper and Purpur
For Minecraft 1.21.11–26.3
Needed in the game; optional on the server
Latest version — 1.3.0 from September 29, 2026
Requires Fabric API
License Apache-2.0 — free
Where it's needed
In gamerequiredOn serveroptional

Needed in the game; optional on the server

Game versions1.21.11–26.3

Descriptive

Email Support on Ko-Fi Source License

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

Descriptive in Action

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

AnimationHow it looks
🏀 BounceBounce Animation
🌊 WaveWave Animation
⚡ GlitchGlitch Animation
🕰️ PendulumPendelum Animation
💓 PulsePulse Animation
😵 ShakeShake Animation
🎷 SwingSwing Animation
🌀 TurbulenceTurbulence Animation
〰️ WiggleWiggle Animation
🌅 FadeFade Animation

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

  1. Download Descriptive and the Fabric API.
  2. Drop it in your mods/ folder
  3. Boot up Minecraft
  4. Launch a world, press U or type /descriptive config and go customize!

🖥️ Minecraft Server

  1. Download Descriptive
  2. Drop it in your server's mods/ or plugins/ folder
  3. 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 contact@normik.de


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FAQ

How to install Descriptive?

Install Fabric for your Minecraft version, download Descriptive for the same version and loader, put the file into the mods folder and launch the game with the loader profile.

Which Minecraft versions does Descriptive support?

Descriptive has builds for Minecraft 1.21.11–26.3.

Is Descriptive needed on the server?

Needed in the game; optional on the server

License and source
Apache License 2.0free to use and share with credit to the author
Original — Modrinth↗Files unchanged, verified with SHA-512Is this your mod? For rights holders

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