How to Use Runescape Special Text

1. Intro
Special texts are effects and colours you can add to a text in runescape. However a text can’t be given any special effects in private chat, but they’re very useful for selling stuff. You have different kind of effects and different kinds of colours you can add to a text. Under here you can see the effects and colours and how to make them.
Colours:
Effects:
2. Combinations
You can also add an effect and a colour to a text. Then you always first have to add the effect and then the colour. And between the effect and the colour there always has to be a : else it won’t work. Under here I will show you how to make combinations.
Good combinations:

cyan:shake: hello this works good
red:wave2: hello this is fun to do!!
Bad combinations:

This didn’t work as you can see I did cyanshake: but I had to do cyan:shake:.

This didn’t work as well as you can see. I managed to get the text wave2 but I wanted it in red so I had to do red:wave2: and not wave2:red:.
Special texts are effects and colours you can add to a text in runescape. However a text can’t be given any special effects in private chat, but they’re very useful for selling stuff. You have different kind of effects and different kinds of colours you can add to a text. Under here you can see the effects and colours and how to make them.
Colours:
Colour of the text | How to make the colour | Example Picture |
Cyan text | cyan: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Green text | green: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Purple text | purple: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
White text | white: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Red text | red: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Red and yellow flashing text | flash1: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Blue and cyan flashing text | flash2: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Green and cyan flashing text | flash3: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Red, yellow, green and cyan glowing text | glow1: (what you want to write) | none |
Red, purple and blue glowing text | glow2: (what you want to write) | none |
White, green and cyan glowing text | glow3: (what you want to write) | none |
Effects:
What kind of effect | How to make the effect | Example Picture |
Up and down waving effect | wave: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
From right to left waving effect | wave2: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Shaking effect | shake: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Scrolling effect | scroll: (what you want to write) | ![]() |
Text sliding from above effect | slide: (what you want to write) | none |
2. Combinations
You can also add an effect and a colour to a text. Then you always first have to add the effect and then the colour. And between the effect and the colour there always has to be a : else it won’t work. Under here I will show you how to make combinations.
Good combinations:

cyan:shake: hello this works good
red:wave2: hello this is fun to do!!
Bad combinations:

This didn’t work as you can see I did cyanshake: but I had to do cyan:shake:.

This didn’t work as well as you can see. I managed to get the text wave2 but I wanted it in red so I had to do red:wave2: and not wave2:red:.