General Section Sign (§) using UK Mac keyboard

[Oliebollen]

Does anyone know how I can get the Section Sign (§) working within Minecraft, so I can format signs?

Pressing either the dedicated § button or Alt-6 (on my British English Apple wired keyboard with numeric keypad) gets me the symbol in most apps (including typing this forum post) but I can't for the life of me get it to appear on a sign in-game. Even copy'n'paste doesn't work.

 

[Captain_Marko]

iirc that character is not allowed in the MC client other than in books, it's an old formatting system. Likely a java limitation. Perhaps the JSON system works in signs?

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Raw_JSON_text_format

 

[Oliebollen]

Thanks Marko, but I couldn't figure that out for a sign (unless using a command to 'give' a sign to someone).

But I overlooked the obvious - you can simply use coloured dye to achieve what I was looking for