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 TM forum topic).

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 ($RGB)

A small selection can be seen below:

$FFF

$CCC

$999

$666

$333

$000

$FC0

$F90

$F60

$F30

$9C0

$C90

$FC3

$FC6

$F96

$F63

$C30

$C03

$CF0

$CF3

$330

$660

$990

$CC0

$FF0

$CC0

$C63

$300

$600

$900

$C00

$F00

$F36

$F03

$9F0

$CF6

$9C3

$663

$993

$CC3

$FF3

$960

$930

$633

$933

$C33

$F33

$C36

$F69

$F06

$6F0

$9F6

$6C3

$690

$996

$CC6

$FF6

$963

$630

$966

$C66

$F66

$903

$C39

$F6C

$F09

$3F0

$6F3

$390

$6C0

$9F3

$CC9

$FF9

$C96

$C60

$C99

$F99

$F39

$C06

$906

$F3C

$F0C

$0C0

$3C0

$360

$693

$9C6

$CF9

$FFC

$FC9

$F93

$FCC

$F9C

$C69

$936

$603

$C09

$303

$3C3

$6C6

$0F0

$3F3

$6F6

$9F9

$CFC

$C9C

$969

$939

$909

$636

$606

$060

$363

$090

$393

$696

$9C9

$FCF

$F9F

$F6F

$F3F

$F0F

$C6C

$C3C

$030

$0C3

$063

$396

$6C9

$9FC

$CFF

$39F

$9CF

$CCF

$C9F

$96C

$639

$306

$90C

$C0C

$0F3

$3F6

$093

$0C6

$3F9

$9FF

$9CC

$06C

$69C

$99F

$99C

$93F

$60C

$609

$C3F

$C0F

$0F6

$6F9

$3C6

$096

$6FF

$6CC

$699

$036

$369

$66F

$66C

$669

$309

$93C

$C6F

$90F

$0F9

$6FC

$3C9

$3FF

$3CC

$399

$366

$069

$039

$33F

$33C

$339

$336

$63C

$96F

$60F

$0F0

$3FC

$0FF

$0CC

$099

$066

$033

$39C

$36C

$00F

$00C

$009

$006

$003

$63F

$30F

$0C9

$09C

$3CF

$6CF

$69F

$36F

$03C

$36C

$0CF

$09F

$06F

$03F

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.

$l[https://wiki.xaseco.org/wiki/Main_Page]Mania Tech Wiki: Main Page$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=<login>&lang=<language>&nickname=<nickname>&path=<location> (see TM forum topic for more info).