Adding Color (&)

So i've been doing java for a while now but I never got into using color in game. I am trying to figure out how to make it so I can use &a, &1 etc in game, and within my plugins config. I can figure out the code to be exact. I am trying to make it so they can use coloured chat in game, like &1 <their message> in game, and like &aWelcome to the server in the config, but I don't know the code. This is the only place I can think about asking evacuee I'm very confused. Thanks.

 

@Skylord_Torni
in minecraft the caracter that defines color is §
if you are saving something to the config that character might not load so set it with & in the config and then do getConfig().getString("message").replace("&","§");

 

By default, Minecraft understands the section sign to represent colors. However, if you do not want to copy paste it everywhere, you can use Bukkit's built-in method:

Code:

String color = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&aThis is green, &cand this is red")'