diff --git a/syntax/nanorc.nanorc b/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
index d6c7fbce..b5c1ada1 100644
--- a/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
+++ b/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ comment "#"
 color brightred ".*"
 
 # Color names
-color yellow "^[[:blank:]]*(i?color|set[[:blank:]]+((error|function|key|number|prompt|scroller|selected|spotlight|status|stripe|title)color))[[:blank:]]+(bold,)?(italic,)?(bright|light)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan|normal|pink|purple|mauve|lagoon|mint|lime|peach|orange|latte|grey|gray)?(,(light)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan|normal|pink|purple|mauve|lagoon|mint|lime|peach|orange|latte|grey|gray))?\>"
+color yellow "^[[:blank:]]*(i?color|set[[:blank:]]+((error|function|key|number|prompt|scroller|selected|spotlight|status|stripe|title)color))[[:blank:]]+(bold,)?(italic,)?(((bright|light)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))|normal|pink|purple|mauve|lagoon|mint|lime|peach|orange|latte|grey|gray)?(,(((light)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))|normal|pink|purple|mauve|lagoon|mint|lime|peach|orange|latte|grey|gray))?\>"
 
 # Keywords
 color brightgreen "^[[:blank:]]*(set|unset)[[:blank:]]+(afterends|allow_insecure_backup|atblanks|autoindent|backup|boldtext|bookstyle|breaklonglines|casesensitive|constantshow|cutfromcursor|emptyline|historylog|indicator|jumpyscrolling|linenumbers|locking|magic|minibar|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nohelp|nonewlines|positionlog|preserve|quickblank|rawsequences|rebinddelete|regexp|saveonexit|showcursor|smarthome|softwrap|stateflags|suspendable|tabstospaces|trimblanks|unix|wordbounds|zap)\>"