Why Do Some Music Disc Names Display in a Different Font in Minecraft Bedrock?
Quick Answer: This is a known font rendering bug in the vanilla language files. Approximately half of the music disc item names use an en-dash (–) character instead of a regular hyphen (-), which the default Mojangles font doesn’t support. This causes those disc names to fall back to a secondary font, creating a visual inconsistency. The affected discs include: 11, 13, blocks, cat, chirp, far, mall, mellohi, stal, strad, wait, ward, pigstep, otherside, 5, Creator (Music Box), and Precipice.
Details: The issue originates in the language files (resource_pack/texts/*.lang) where the music disc item names are defined. The game’s default font (default8 / Mojangles) supports the basic ASCII hyphen (-, U+002D) but not the en-dash (–, U+2013). When the game encounters the unsupported character, it falls back to a different font for that entire string, resulting in a visibly different typeface for those specific discs. This is tracked in GitHub issue #130. A resource pack fix involves editing the .lang files to replace all en-dashes with regular hyphens in music disc names, or providing a custom font that includes the en-dash glyph. Note that this is a vanilla bug and may be fixed in a future game update.
item.music_disc_11.name=11
item.music_disc_13.name=13
item.music_disc_blocks.name=Blocks
item.music_disc_cat.name=Cat
item.music_disc_chirp.name=Chirp
item.music_disc_far.name=Far
item.music_disc_mall.name=Mall
item.music_disc_mellohi.name=Mellohi
item.music_disc_stal.name=Stal
item.music_disc_strad.name=Strad
item.music_disc_wait.name=Wait
item.music_disc_ward.name=Ward
item.music_disc_pigstep.name=Pigstep
item.music_disc_otherside.name=Otherside
item.music_disc_5.name=5
item.music_disc_creator_music_box.name=Creator (Music Box)
item.music_disc_precipice.name=PrecipiceLast updated: 2026-07-24
