diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e644f568..6d26aac0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ 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 8da83dd3..0fa9eada 100644
--- a/jrnl/Journal.py
+++ b/jrnl/Journal.py
@@ -21,11 +21,6 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     crypto_installed = False
 import hashlib
-try:
-    import colorama
-    colorama.init()
-except ImportError:
-    colorama = None
 import plistlib
 import pytz
 import uuid
@@ -57,12 +52,6 @@ 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:
@@ -174,11 +163,11 @@ class Journal(object):
                 for tag in self.search_tags:
                     tagre = re.compile(re.escape(tag), re.IGNORECASE)
                     pp = re.sub(tagre,
-                                lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
+                                lambda match: util.colorize(match.group(0)),
                                 pp, re.UNICODE)
             else:
                 pp = re.sub(r"(?u)([{tags}]\w+)".format(tags=self.config['tagsymbols']),
-                            lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
+                            lambda match: util.colorize(match.group(0)),
                             pp)
         return pp
 
diff --git a/jrnl/__init__.py b/jrnl/__init__.py
index 50b30f18..33c20aa5 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__ = '1.7.3'
+__version__ = '1.7.4'
 __author__ = 'Manuel Ebert'
 __license__ = 'MIT License'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013 Manuel Ebert'
diff --git a/jrnl/install.py b/jrnl/install.py
index 7a6fa5c4..3240a206 100644
--- a/jrnl/install.py
+++ b/jrnl/install.py
@@ -82,11 +82,6 @@ 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 504be650..102433c7 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -139,3 +139,7 @@ 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 c217b127..413a3844 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 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 e79aa3e0..f2aa04f7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ setup(
         "pytz>=2013b",
         "tzlocal==1.0",
         "slugify>=0.0.1",
-        "colorama>=0.2.5",
         "keyring>=3.0.5"
         ] + [p for p, cond in conditional_dependencies.items() if cond],
     extras_require = {