diff --git a/docs/profanity.1 b/docs/profanity.1
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@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ The [ui] section contains basic preferences, you can find more help on these
 settings by typing "/help beep" for example in Profanity.
 .PP
 The [colours] section allows you to tailor the colours used in Profanity to
-suit your terminal preferences.
+suit your terminal preferences.  Available colours are black, white, red, 
+green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta and default, where default is the default
+forground or background colour on your terminal.
 .PP
 The [connections] section is the list of users that will appear in tab
 completion for the /connect command.  This list is automatically populated