diff --git a/client/equo.py b/client/equo.py
index 996bdfd23..6f2fceb35 100644
--- a/client/equo.py
+++ b/client/equo.py
@@ -55,10 +55,6 @@ etp_exit_messages = {
     7: _("Go to hell."),
 }
 
-# Check if we need to disable colors
-if not is_stdout_a_tty():
-    nocolor()
-
 help_opts = [
     None,
     (0, " ~ %s ~ " % ("equo",), 2,
@@ -69,6 +65,7 @@ help_opts = [
     (1, '--help', 2, _('this output')),
     (1, '--version', 1, _('print version')),
     (1, '--nocolor', 1, _('disable colorized output')),
+    (1, '--color', 2, _('force colorized output')),
     (1, '--bashcomp', 1, _('print a bash completion script to stdout')),
     None,
     (0, _('Application Options'), 0, None),
@@ -773,9 +770,12 @@ for n in range(len(options)):
         options.extend(x_found_opts)
 
 bashcomp_enabled = False
+force_color = False
 for opt in options:
     if opt in ["--nocolor", "-N"]:
         nocolor()
+    elif opt in ["--color", "-C"]:
+        force_color = True
     elif opt == "--debug":
         continue
     elif opt in ["--quiet", "-q"]:
@@ -796,6 +796,10 @@ for opt in options:
         _options.append(opt)
 options = _options
 
+# Check if we need to disable colors
+if (not force_color) and (not is_stdout_a_tty()):
+    nocolor()
+
 if bashcomp_enabled:
     print_bashcomp(help_opts + help_opts_extended, options, BASHCOMP_MAP)
     raise SystemExit(0)
diff --git a/docs/man/equo.pod b/docs/man/equo.pod
index 43809191a..66b7c2cc0 100644
--- a/docs/man/equo.pod
+++ b/docs/man/equo.pod
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ print version
 
 disable colorized output
 
+=item B<--color>
+
+force colorized output
+
 =item [1] B<--bashcomp>
 
 print a bash completion script to stdout
diff --git a/docs/man/man1/equo.1 b/docs/man/man1/equo.1
index bbf55da34..c00cf1ba3 100644
--- a/docs/man/man1/equo.1
+++ b/docs/man/man1/equo.1
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@
 .rm #[ #] #H #V #F C
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
-.IX Title "A 1"
-.TH A 1 "2011-04-05" "perl v5.12.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
+.IX Title "EQUO 1"
+.TH EQUO 1 "2011-04-29" "perl v5.12.2" "Entropy"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ print version
 .IP "[1] \fB\-\-nocolor\fR" 4
 .IX Item "[1] --nocolor"
 disable colorized output
+.IP "\fB\-\-color\fR" 4
+.IX Item "--color"
+force colorized output
 .IP "[1] \fB\-\-bashcomp\fR" 4
 .IX Item "[1] --bashcomp"
 print a bash completion script to stdout