diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f8084d224..0bc2fece1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
 - TW-1407 'task calendar 2014' leaks.
 - TW-1409 Allow "1 of N tasks remaining" to be correctly localized (thanks to
           Jeremy John Reeder).
+- TW-1428 Add support for color.uda.<name>.<value> rules.
 - Removed deprecated 'echo.command' setting, in favor of the 'header' and
   'affected' verbosity tokens.
 - Removed deprecated 'edit.verbose' setting, in favor of the 'edit' verbosity
diff --git a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
index dc953361e..5decadd37 100644
--- a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
+++ b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
@@ -863,6 +863,11 @@ Colors any task where the description or any annotation contains X.
 Colors any task that has the user defined attribute X.
 .RE
 
+.TP
+.B color.uda.X.VALUE=on green
+Colors any task that has the user defined attribute X set to VALUE.
+.RE
+
 .TP
 .B color.error=green
 Colors any of the error messages.
diff --git a/src/rules.cpp b/src/rules.cpp
index 613229421..0855369b5 100644
--- a/src/rules.cpp
+++ b/src/rules.cpp
@@ -225,8 +225,19 @@ static void colorizeKeyword (Task& task, const std::string& rule, const Color& b
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 static void colorizeUDA (Task& task, const std::string& rule, const Color& base, Color& c)
 {
-  if (task.has (rule.substr (10)))
-    c.blend (base);
+  // Is the rule uda.name.value or uda.name?
+  size_t pos = rule.find (".", 10);
+  if (pos == std::string::npos)
+  {
+    if (task.has (rule.substr (10)))
+      c.blend (base);
+  }
+  else {
+    const std::string uda = rule.substr (10, pos-10);
+    const std::string val = rule.substr (pos+1);
+    if (task.get (uda) == val)
+      c.blend (base);
+  }
 }
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
diff --git a/test/color.uda.t b/test/color.uda.t
index 75faa6299..cd6309ca8 100755
--- a/test/color.uda.t
+++ b/test/color.uda.t
@@ -40,17 +40,22 @@ if (open my $fh, '>', 'color.rc')
             "color.uda.x=red\n",
             "uda.x.type=numeric\n",
             "uda.x.label=X\n",
+            "uda.y.type=numeric\n",
+            "uda.y.label=Y\n",
+            "color.uda.y.4=blue\n",
             "color.alternate=\n",
             "_forcecolor=1\n";
   close $fh;
 }
 
 qx{../src/task rc:color.rc add one 2>&1};
-qx{../src/task rc:color.rc add two x:3 2>&1};
+qx{../src/task rc:color.rc add two x:3 y:2 2>&1};
+qx{../src/task rc:color.rc add three y:4 2>&1};
 my $output = qx{../src/task rc:color.rc list 2>/dev/null};
 
 unlike ($output, qr/ \033\[32m .* one .* \033\[0m /x, 'No color.uda');
 like   ($output, qr/ \033\[31m .* two .* \033\[0m /x, 'Found color.uda');
+like   ($output, qr/ \033\[34m .* three .* \033\[0m /x, 'Found color.uda.x');
 
 # Cleanup.
 unlink qw(pending.data completed.data undo.data backlog.data color.rc);