About Colorful Books
From ModrinthDecorate, organize & display your books with colour! Works with Lecterns, Chiseled Bookshelves & Enchanting Tables!
📚 Colorful Books
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🎨 Dyeing & Undyeing
Dye as vanilla does it! Combine dyes with a Book, Book and Quill, Written Book or Enchanted Book in crafting grid to give it a splash of color. Wash off your dye by using a dyed book on a Cauldron with water in it. Don't worry, the ink of your written pages won't come off! 
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✒️ Lectern, Writing & Librarian
Write with color! Book and Quills & Written Books which are dyed will display their dye on a Lectern or in their respective GUIs for everyone to see. Librarians will still accept dyed books for their Trades, and even keep the dye! 
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✨ Enchanting Table & Chiseled Bookshelves
Display with pride! When crafting an Enchanting Table with a dyed book, the Enchanting Table will display a dyed book in the world and in the GUI. Chiseled Bookshelves will also display the color of their books, allowing you to organize and decorate! 
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🏦 Enchanted Books & Loot
Enchant with mysteriouly colorful books! Enchanted Books found as Loot will be dyed based on their Enchantments. If a book has multiple enchantments, it will blend them! 
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Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 13 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Colorful Books as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Fabric
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 12 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authorboyonk, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
