Text formatting

Text formatting and colour codes in TrackMania and ManiaPlanet can be used for players' nicknames, track names and comments, music file comments, server names and comments, and in-game online chats.

Nicknames are limited to 20 characters in TM Original, Sunrise and Nations. Since United, this limitation doesn't exist anymore.

You can also add special Unicode (UTF-8) characters to a name (see ).

Colour codes
To add a colour to a name simply input a $ followed by three hexadecimal digits from 0 to f (0123456789abcdef), which represent red, green and blue values ($R G B )

A small selection can be seen below:

Other text formatting
These codes are available in all TrackMania games:

$t Capitals $i Italic $s Shadowed $w Wide spacing $n Narrow spacing $m Normal setting $g Default color $z Reset all $$ Write a "$"

In TrackMania United, several new codes have been added:

$o Bold with semi-wide spacing $h Internal link to a ManiaLink $l External link to a website
 * The syntax of the links is the same as in ManiaLinks.

To link internally to another ManiaLink page, use $h. This will open the page in-game.

$h[maniaplanet://#menutitle=@TMStadium@nadeo]Trackmania² Stadium$h

To link externally, use $l. This will open the page in your standard web browser.

$lMania Tech Wiki: Main Page$l In TrackMania Forever, another new code has been added:

$p Link with player parameters to a script that should return a ManiaLink
 * The parameters are: ?playerlogin= &lang= &nickname= &path= (see for more info).