diff --git a/dev-util/colormake/colormake-9999.ebuild b/dev-util/colormake/colormake-9999.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2c0a003
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/colormake/colormake-9999.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+EAPI=4
+
+inherit eutils
+
+if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI=${EGIT_REPO_URI:-"https://github.com/pagekite/Colormake.git"}
+	inherit git-r3
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="${HOMEPAGE}${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="-* ~x86 ~amd64"
+fi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Colorizing wrapper around make"
+
+HOMEPAGE="http://bre.klaki.net/programs/colormake/"
+
+SLOT="0"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=""
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-cmake.patch
+	if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
+		# Allow user patches to be applied without modifying the ebuild
+		epatch_user
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin colormake{,.pl} || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-util/colormake/files/colormake-9999-cmake.patch b/dev-util/colormake/files/colormake-9999-cmake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f19c8e50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/colormake/files/colormake-9999-cmake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+--- colormake	2019-02-13 16:16:56.933437336 +0300
++++ colormake	2019-02-13 16:19:20.779409415 +0300
+@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
+ # on the screen.
+ #
+ 
++# CMake uses its own color scheme
++if [ -f CMakeCache.txt ]; then
++	make $*
++	exit $?
++fi
++
+ if [ "$TERM" = "dumb" ];then
+    # As suggested by Alexander Korkov ...
+    exec make "$@"
diff --git a/profiles/desktop/package.accept_keywords b/profiles/desktop/package.accept_keywords
index b1ca671e..5113a752 100644
--- a/profiles/desktop/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/profiles/desktop/package.accept_keywords
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
 <dev-util/cargo-0.28 ~amd64
 dev-util/cbindgen ~amd64
 <dev-util/cmake-3.12 ~amd64
+=dev-util/colormake-9999 **
 <dev-util/glade-3.21 ~amd64
 <dev-util/kbuild-0.2 ~amd64
 <dev-util/perf-5 ~amd64