diff --git a/src/node/TwitchBot.js b/src/node/TwitchBot.js
index 89adf70..39f8299 100644
--- a/src/node/TwitchBot.js
+++ b/src/node/TwitchBot.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import EventEmitter from 'events'
-
+import Color from 'color'
 import ejs from 'ejs'
 import { State } from 'xstate'
 import { ChatClient, SlowModeRateLimiter, LoginError } from 'dank-twitch-irc'
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export default class TwitchBot extends EventEmitter {
   async onReady() {
     const { client } = this
     const { channel, color } = this.config
-    await client.setColor(color)
+    await client.setColor(Color(color).object())
     await client.join(channel)
     this.emit('connected')
   }
diff --git a/src/node/index.js b/src/node/index.js
index 74c75cf..0a12c03 100644
--- a/src/node/index.js
+++ b/src/node/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import fs from 'fs'
 import yargs from 'yargs'
 import TOML from '@iarna/toml'
-import Color from 'color'
 import { Repeater } from '@repeaterjs/repeater'
 import { app, shell, session, BrowserWindow } from 'electron'
 
@@ -98,8 +97,7 @@ function parseArgs() {
     })
     .option('twitch.color', {
       describe: 'Color of Twitch bot username',
-      coerce: (text) => Color(text).object(),
-      default: { r: 255, g: 0, b: 0 },
+      default: '#ff0000',
     })
     .option('twitch.announce.template', {
       describe: 'Message template for stream announcements',