Colored Text in config?

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To get colored text in config files I’ve just been deserializing it to Sponge’s Text format.
I realize we’re trying to get away from that. Is there any new way of doing colors in configs instead of “&cLightRedText” or is the best practice to deserialize.

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https://docs.spongepowered.org/master/en/plugin/text/representations/configurate.html