diff --git a/docs/advanced.md b/docs/advanced.md
index e5f89139..2c14f84d 100644
--- a/docs/advanced.md
+++ b/docs/advanced.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ and can be edited with any plain text editor.
   - `linewrap`
     controls the width of the output. Set to `false` if you don't want to wrap long lines.
   - `colors`
-    dictionary that controls the colors used to display journal entries. It has two subkeys, which are: `date` and `title`. Current valid values are: `BLACK`, `RED`, `GREEN`, `YELLOW`, `BLUE`, `MAGENTA`, `CYAN`, and `WHITE`. `colorama.Fore` is used for colorization, and you can find the [docs here](https://github.com/tartley/colorama#colored-output). To disable colored output, set the value to `NONE`.
+    dictionary that controls the colors used to display journal entries. It has two subkeys, which are: `date` and `title`. Current valid values are: `BLACK`, `RED`, `GREEN`, `YELLOW`, `BLUE`, `MAGENTA`, `CYAN`, and `WHITE`. `colorama.Fore` is used for colorization, and you can find the [docs here](https://github.com/tartley/colorama#colored-output). To disable colored output, set the value to `NONE`. If you set the value of any color subkey to an invalid color, no color will be used.
 
 !!! note
     Although it seems intuitive to use the `#`
diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index dae66a07..d4196f50 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -198,14 +198,12 @@ def get_text_from_editor(config, template=""):
 
 def colorize(string, color, bold=False):
     """Returns the string colored with colorama.Fore.color. If the color set by
-    the user is "NONE", it returns the string without any modification. Otherwise,
-    If the color set by the user doesn't exist in the colorama.Fore attributes,
-    the colorization is done with WHITE."""
-    upper_color = color.upper()
-    if upper_color == "NONE":
+    the user is "NONE" or the color doesn't exist in the colorama.Fore attributes,
+    it returns the string without any modification."""
+    color_escape = getattr(colorama.Fore, color.upper(), None)
+    if not color_escape:
         return string
 
-    color_escape = getattr(colorama.Fore, upper_color, colorama.Fore.WHITE)
     if not bold:
         return color_escape + string + colorama.Fore.RESET
     else: