diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6d26aac0..e644f568 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Changelog
 
 ### 1.7 (December 22, 2013)
 
-* __1.7.4__ Gets rid of colorama.
 * __1.7.3__ Touches temporary files before opening them to allow more external editors.
 * __1.7.2__ Dateutil added to requirements.
 * __1.7.1__ Fixes issues with parsing time information in entries.
diff --git a/jrnl/Journal.py b/jrnl/Journal.py
index 0fa9eada..8da83dd3 100644
--- a/jrnl/Journal.py
+++ b/jrnl/Journal.py
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     crypto_installed = False
 import hashlib
+try:
+    import colorama
+    colorama.init()
+except ImportError:
+    colorama = None
 import plistlib
 import pytz
 import uuid
@@ -52,6 +57,12 @@ class Journal(object):
         """Returns the number of entries"""
         return len(self.entries)
 
+    def _colorize(self, string):
+        if colorama:
+            return colorama.Fore.CYAN + string + colorama.Fore.RESET
+        else:
+            return string
+
     def _decrypt(self, cipher):
         """Decrypts a cipher string using self.key as the key and the first 16 byte of the cipher as the IV"""
         if not crypto_installed:
@@ -163,11 +174,11 @@ class Journal(object):
                 for tag in self.search_tags:
                     tagre = re.compile(re.escape(tag), re.IGNORECASE)
                     pp = re.sub(tagre,
-                                lambda match: util.colorize(match.group(0)),
+                                lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
                                 pp, re.UNICODE)
             else:
                 pp = re.sub(r"(?u)([{tags}]\w+)".format(tags=self.config['tagsymbols']),
-                            lambda match: util.colorize(match.group(0)),
+                            lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
                             pp)
         return pp
 
diff --git a/jrnl/__init__.py b/jrnl/__init__.py
index 33c20aa5..50b30f18 100644
--- a/jrnl/__init__.py
+++ b/jrnl/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line.
 """
 
 __title__ = 'jrnl'
-__version__ = '1.7.4'
+__version__ = '1.7.3'
 __author__ = 'Manuel Ebert'
 __license__ = 'MIT License'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013 Manuel Ebert'
diff --git a/jrnl/install.py b/jrnl/install.py
index 3240a206..7a6fa5c4 100644
--- a/jrnl/install.py
+++ b/jrnl/install.py
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ def install_jrnl(config_path='~/.jrnl_config'):
         password = None
         print("PyCrypto not found. To encrypt your journal, install the PyCrypto package from http://www.pycrypto.org or with 'pip install pycrypto' and run 'jrnl --encrypt'. For now, your journal will be stored in plain text.")
 
+    # Use highlighting:
+    if not module_exists("colorama"):
+        print("colorama not found. To turn on highlighting, install colorama and set highlight to true in your .jrnl_conf.")
+        default_config['highlight'] = False
+
     open(default_config['journals']['default'], 'a').close()  # Touch to make sure it's there
 
     # Write config to ~/.jrnl_conf
diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index 102433c7..504be650 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -139,7 +139,3 @@ def get_text_from_editor(config, template=""):
         prompt('[Nothing saved to file]')
     return raw
 
-def colorize(string):
-    """Returns the string wrapped in cyan ANSI escape"""
-    return u"\033[36m{}\033[39m".format(string)
-
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 413a3844..c217b127 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 parsedatetime >= 1.1.2
 pytz >= 2013b
+colorama >= 0.2.5
 pycrypto >= 2.6
 argparse==1.2.1
 tzlocal == 1.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fafd0515..30b5a026 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ setup(
         "slugify>=0.0.1",
         "keyring>=3.3",
         "python-dateutil>=2.2"
+        "colorama>=0.2.5",
         ] + [p for p, cond in conditional_dependencies.items() if cond],
     extras_require = {
         "encrypted": "pycrypto>=2.6"