Do Jedi choose their lightsaber color?

In the Star Wars universe, lightsaber colors are determined by the force of the Jedi using a lightsaber. More specifically, as noted on the official Star Wars site, lightsabers come from Kyber crystals, typically found in the frozen caves in the world of Ilum, which acquire color once attuned to a specific Jedi.
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How is a Jedi lightsaber color determined?

When a Force-user bonds with a Kyber, it changes into a specific color that will determine its lightsaber blade color. In most cases, a Kyber turns blue or green, but on rare occasions, they become colors like purple or yellow. Kyber crystals can change color if they bond with another Force-user.
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Can Jedi change their lightsaber color?

This information also answers one part of our question as to whether a lightsaber can change colors or not. While talking specifically about that time, it is impossible to change the color of a lightsaber because the Kyber Crystal chooses its color according to the user.
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What color lightsabers do Jedi use?

Blue. One of the most common lightsaber colors is blue. When Star Wars was first created, blue was going to be one of only two lightsaber colors, along with red. The blue lightsaber is most commonly used by Jedi.
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Do different color lightsabers do anything?

Around 4000 BBY, lightsaber crystals were used to indicate a Jedi's chosen class. Blue indicated a Jedi Guardian, a Jedi who used the Force on a more physical level. Green indicated a Jedi Consular, a Jedi who preferred to reflect on the mysteries of the Force and fight the dark side at its heart.
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EVERY SINGLE Lightsaber Color Meaning Explained (CANON)



What is the rarest lightsaber color?

Yellow lightsabers are some of the rarest blades to be wielded by a member of the Jedi Order. Jedi Master Plo Koon, Ahsoka Tano, and Rey Skywalker have been known to utilize them on occasion, but they are primarily the blade color of the Jedi Sentinel.
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What is the strongest lightsaber color?

The purple lightsaber is known to be the strongest on the side of the Jedi. Purple lightsabers are actually relatively rare in the Star Wars universe. They are particularly unique because they are known to be affiliated with both the light and dark side of the Force.
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Why is Rey's lightsaber yellow?

From a certain point of view, Rey's lightsaber signifies all these. To defeat Palpatine once and for all she took on the strength of all the Jedi who came before her. So like the Jedi Sentinels, her yellow lightsaber may represent her balance of all the other schools of thought that came before.
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How did Luke get a green lightsaber?

After losing his father's lightsaber on Cloud City, Luke Skywalker constructed a replacement with a green plasma blade, its hilt similar to that of Obi-Wan Kenobi's weapon.
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How did Rey get a yellow lightsaber?

Like the quarterstaff from which it originated, Rey's lightsaber hilt was blocky and heavy due to its exterior armor that made it resistant to impact and wear and tear. The weapon had a kyber crystal at its heart, and emitted a yellow-colored plasma blade when ignited.
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Can a Jedi have two different colored lightsabers?

There are no rules saying a Jedi is forbidden from having two lightsabers at the same time. All Jedi may have two (or more) lightsabers. Ahsoka Tano likely received her second lightsaber from her master, Anakin Skywalker.
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Why is Mace Windu's lightsaber purple?

The Jedi initiate heals his adversary with help from the Force and, by way of thanks, is given a gift: purple crystals. He uses these crystals to assemble his lightsaber, which emits a distinctive purple blade.
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Who has a white lightsaber?

Ahsoka Tano, the former Jedi Padawan who aided in the rebellion against the Galactic Empire, is acknowledged as the sole possessor of the white lightsaber.
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Is Qui Gon a GREY Jedi?

Relationship with the Council

Some members of the Jedi Order considered Qui-Gon Jinn to be a Gray Jedi.
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What does a GREY lightsaber mean?

A Gray Jedi may refer to a Jedi that operates outside of the influence of the Jedi Council and does not adhere to the Jedi Code. 3. A Gray Jedi may refer to a Jedi that operate outside the influence of the Jedi Council and Jedi Code and toes the line of the light side and dark side of the Force like Jolee Bindo.
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What color is Leia's lightsaber?

Leia Organa's lightsaber was a blue-bladed lightsaber powered by a kyber crystal in the core of the hilt. It was silver and copper in color and featured mother-of-pearl inlays.
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Who has a black lightsaber?

The Darksaber goes back to the time of Tarre Vizsla, the first Mandalorian to become a Jedi Knight. He created a one-of-a-kind lightsaber with a flat blade of dark, swirling energy. In the Star Wars Rebels episode “Trials of the Darksaber,” Fenn Rau shared more of the Mandalorian folklore surrounding the weapon.
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What are white lightsabers?

A white lightsaber is an uncommon, neutral lightsaber blade color. In Star Wars Canon, Ahsoka Tano first wields a pair of curved-hilt lightsabers with white blades in the animated series Star Wars Rebels. In Star Wars Legends, a group of Force-users called the Imperial Knights wield white-bladed lightsabers as well.
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Why did Rey call herself Skywalker?

Although Solo was the last of the Skywalker bloodline, Rey assumed the name "Skywalker" to honor their memory, repudiating her own heritage as a Palpatine.
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Who has a pink lightsaber?

There is only one known character in all of Star Wars canon to have a magenta lightsaber. That character is Cal Kestis. Cal is from the game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and he is a force-sensitive human who over the course of the game becomes a Jedi knight.
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Why is Kylo Ren's lightsaber so unstable?

In The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary, it's confirmed that Kylo Ren's lightsaber contains a “cracked kyber crystal that is the cause of [the] ragged, unstable appearance” of the central blade and the two smaller blades that comprise the crossguard.
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What is the weakest lightsaber?

Red lightsabers are the weakest, according to a Star Wars study conducted at the University of Leicester regarding lightsaber colors. Decades of Star Wars lore has dictated that the red lightsabers favored by The Sith offered greater offensive capabilities than the softer colors favored by The Jedi.
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Can a Jedi use a red lightsaber?

In both canon and Legends, Jedi will sometimes use red-bladed lightsabers in emergencies where they're missing their lightsabers and a Sith weapon is the only one available. Some Jedi are explicitly shown using red lightsabers in Legends, however.
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What is the rarest Kyber crystal?

For this list, we'll go with the Ghostfire crystal, making it the rarest and most dangerous lightsaber crystal in Star Wars Legends.
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