This tutorial will teach you about tellraw. Tellraw is the more advanced version of /tell and /say. The command is fairly hard to learn intuitively so I will help you! Don't let the advanced or hard to learn intuitively make you think you can't learn it! This is an easy command to use once you know how to use it. The basic version is /tellraw @a {"text":"Hi"}. You can adjust the "Hi" part to be whatever you want. You can also adjust the "@a" with my tutorial below.

That is not all tellraw can do! Tellraw has a lot more than just text. You can color it. For example: /tellraw @a {"text":"Herobrine joined the game","color":"yellow"}. This is one of my favourites when meeting people on servers when I have op and they don't know of the magic of tellraw. You can also simulate custom messages /tellraw @a {"text":"<Herobrine> Hello people."}.

We went over color and text so what's next? Italics and bold of course! I will show both in one but if you don't want one just leave it out.

/tellraw @a {"text":"Hi","italic":true,"bold":true}. You can also use "strikethrough" or "obfuscated". You may now be wondering why it doesn't have "" around the true. The reason being true is a boolean and not a string. You may not know what that means but they are different data types. Boolean is true or false. Strings are characters. Strings use "" to denote themselves. This is because numbers and booleans are unique among programs. But strings are everywhere as they are words so we have to denote them with the "".

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There are more advanced features of the tellraw command. Since there are so many I will leave a link to a command generator. This works in 1.12 and 1.13. You can customise the selector as you wish there will be a button below aswell.