diff --git a/jrnl/Entry.py b/jrnl/Entry.py
index 67ba84f3..efe93ae8 100755
--- a/jrnl/Entry.py
+++ b/jrnl/Entry.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from datetime import datetime
 import re
 
 import ansiwrap
+import colorama
 
 from .color import colorize
 from .color import highlight_tags_with_background_color
@@ -99,9 +100,25 @@ class Entry:
         else:
             indent = ""
 
+        if "colors" in self.journal.config and "date" in self.journal.config["colors"]:
+            date_color = self.journal.config["colors"]["date"]
+        else:
+            date_color = None
+        title_color = (
+            self.journal.config["colors"]["title"]
+            if "colors" in self.journal.config
+            and "title" in self.journal.config["colors"]
+            else None
+        )
+        body_color = (
+            self.journal.config["colors"]["body"]
+            if "colors" in self.journal.config
+            and "title" in self.journal.config["colors"]
+            else None
+        )
         date_str = colorize(
             self.date.strftime(self.journal.config["timeformat"]),
-            self.journal.config["colors"]["date"],
+            date_color,
             bold=True,
         )
 
@@ -113,13 +130,13 @@ class Entry:
                 + highlight_tags_with_background_color(
                     self,
                     self.title,
-                    self.journal.config["colors"]["title"],
+                    title_color,
                     is_title=True,
                 ),
                 self.journal.config["linewrap"],
             )
             body = highlight_tags_with_background_color(
-                self, self.body.rstrip(" \n"), self.journal.config["colors"]["body"]
+                self, self.body.rstrip(" \n"), body_color
             )
             body_text = [
                 colorize(
@@ -130,7 +147,7 @@ class Entry:
                         subsequent_indent=indent,
                         drop_whitespace=True,
                     ),
-                    self.journal.config["colors"]["body"],
+                    body_color,
                 )
                 or indent
                 for line in body.rstrip(" \n").splitlines()
@@ -142,27 +159,29 @@ class Entry:
             # properly. textwrap doesn't have this issue, however, it doesn't wrap
             # the strings properly as it counts ANSI escapes as literal characters.
             # TL;DR: I'm sorry.
+
             body = "\n".join(
                 [
-                    colorize(indent, self.journal.config["colors"]["body"]) + line
+                    colorize(indent, body_color) + line
                     if not ansiwrap.strip_color(line).startswith(indent)
                     else line
                     for line in body_text
                 ]
             )
         else:
+
             title = (
                 date_str
                 + " "
                 + highlight_tags_with_background_color(
                     self,
                     self.title.rstrip("\n"),
-                    self.journal.config["colors"]["title"],
+                    title_color,
                     is_title=True,
                 )
             )
             body = highlight_tags_with_background_color(
-                self, self.body.rstrip("\n "), self.journal.config["colors"]["body"]
+                self, self.body.rstrip("\n "), body_color
             )
 
         # Suppress bodies that are just blanks and new lines.
diff --git a/jrnl/color.py b/jrnl/color.py
index 3bdd4149..28f36be1 100644
--- a/jrnl/color.py
+++ b/jrnl/color.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import re
 from string import punctuation
 from string import whitespace
+from typing import Union
 
 import colorama
 
@@ -15,11 +16,16 @@ ERROR_COLOR = colorama.Fore.RED
 RESET_COLOR = colorama.Fore.RESET
 
 
-def colorize(string, color, bold=False):
+def colorize(string, color: Union[str, None], bold=False):
     """Returns the string colored with colorama.Fore.color. If the color set by
     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 color is not None:
+        color_escape = getattr(colorama.Fore, color.upper(), None)
+    else:
+        color_escape = None
+
     if not color_escape:
         return string
     elif not bold: