diff --git a/src/color.rs b/src/color.rs
index b921a042..ff015783 100644
--- a/src/color.rs
+++ b/src/color.rs
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ impl Color {
 
 
 #[inline]
-fn parse_color_keyword(value: &str) -> Result<Color, ()> {
+pub fn parse_color_keyword(value: &str) -> Result<Color, ()> {
     let lower_value = value.to_ascii_lower();
     let (r, g, b) = match lower_value.as_slice() {
         "black" => (0., 0., 0.),
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 9da2632d..9e0c5b4c 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ extern crate test;
 #[cfg(test)]
 extern crate serialize;
 
+pub use color::{parse_color_keyword};
 pub use tokenizer::{tokenize, Tokenizer};
 pub use parser::{parse_stylesheet_rules, StylesheetParser,
                  parse_rule_list, RuleListParser,