diff --git a/src/pocketmine/utils/TextFormat.php b/src/pocketmine/utils/TextFormat.php
index d790e8c10..9bc9dcdde 100644
--- a/src/pocketmine/utils/TextFormat.php
+++ b/src/pocketmine/utils/TextFormat.php
@@ -83,6 +83,18 @@ public static function clean($string, $removeFormat = true){
 		return str_replace("\x1b", "", preg_replace("/\x1b[\\(\\][[0-9;\\[\\(]+[Bm]/", "", $string));
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Replaces placeholders of § with the correct character. Only valid codes (as in the constants of the TextFormat class) will be converted.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $string
+	 * @param string $placeholder default "&"
+	 *
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function colorize(string $string, string $placeholder = "&") : string{
+		return preg_replace('/' . preg_quote($placeholder, "/") . '([0-9a-fk-or])/u', TextFormat::ESCAPE . '$1', $string);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Returns an JSON-formatted string with colors/markup
 	 *
@@ -582,4 +594,4 @@ public static function addSpaces($string, $resPixelLength, $mode = self::MODE_BO
 		return $string;
 	}
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}