How to change the color of my name?

Recently I encountered someone with a green colored name. I saw that it is possible to change your name (in the settings, but just ONCE), and I maybe want a colored nickname too. How do I accomplish that? In the same way as in normal chat (explained here)?

I do not want to test it myself before I know for sure, due to the change-it-once policy.

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2 Answers

As you suspected, you accomplish this the same way as changing text in the chat box.

For completeness, the code to do that is:

<c######>name</c>

Replace the ###### with the hex code color you wish to use.

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Unfortunately, unlike the chatbox, you are very limited on the length of characters you can use.

There are a few basic colors that only require a single digit:

2 Red
3 Green
4 Blue
5 Turquoise
6 Pink
7 Yellow
9 Dark Red

If you want to use one of these colors, it will save you quite a bit of space to spend those characters on your actual name.

In case you have doubts, you can see that the name change is going to go through correctly before you confirm the change. Here is a screenshot of my game which shows the change to blue:

And again on the confirmation screen:

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It is accomplished exactly how you change chat text colour:

 <c(hexcode)>(name)</c> 

However, be extremely careful that a future game update may remove this feature, and your name may get permanently corrupted, because you can't change your name again! (Except if you contact Supercell, perhaps.)

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