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Tags ​

Various text interfaces within the Geometry Dash client can be manipulated using special tags similar to markup languages such as HTML. Geometry Dash has 4 primary types of tags:

  • Colour Tags
  • Fade Tags
  • Delay Tags
  • Shake Tags

Colour Tags ​

Colour Tags are used to style areas of text with colour. They contain both a start and an end tag - the start tag defining which colour should be rendered on screen and the end tag denoting when to stop reading.

Usage: <cl>Coloured Text!</c>

TagColour codeExample (website only)
<cb>0x4A52E1
<cg>0x40E348
<cl>0x60ABEF
<cj>0x32C8FF
<cy>0xFFFF00
<co>0xFF5A4B
<cr>0xFF5A5A
<cp>0xFF00FF
<ca>0x9632FF
<cd>0xFF96FF
<cc>0xFFFF96
<cf>0x96FFFF
<cs>0xFFDC41
<c>0xFF0000

Instant/Fade Tags ​

Fade Tags are used to fade in a block of text on screen instead of making it appear character by character. Similarly to colour tags, Fade tags have a start and end tag to denote which piece of text should appear instantly. The number is specified in centiseconds, which is 1/100th of a second.

Usage: Hello, <i100>world!</i>

fade-in preview

Delay Tags ​

Delay tags are used to create a delay before a specific string in dialog boxes. The game detects a Delay Tag if the string contains a <d and then it reads the next 3 characters and converts them into an integer. This value is then passed into the CCDelayTime class from the cocos2d-x engine which Geometry Dash uses. The number is specified in centiseconds, which is 1/100th of a second.

Usage: uhh<d030>.<d030>.<d030>.

delay preview

Shake Tags ​

Shake Tags are used to render shaky text on screen. The number denotes the intensity of the shake.

Usage: <s260>CHOPPER!</s>

shake preview

Notes ​

  • In 2.1, failing to add an end tag for Colour tags and Instant tags would result in the game crashing, but this was fixed in 2.2

  • In 2.1, the Fade tags actually made the block of text appear instantly, and so no number was required. To emulate the old behavior, you can use <i000>

  • Only Colour tags are usable without modifying the client - via level descriptions and comment bans

  • The tags are defined within the MultilineBitmapFont class and are sometimes disabled within the create method using a bool