diff --git a/man/i3bar.man b/man/i3bar.man
index e881899b..fcefce7b 100644
--- a/man/i3bar.man
+++ b/man/i3bar.man
@@ -39,9 +39,8 @@ Display a short help-message and exit
 workspace switching buttons and a statusline generated by i3status(1) or
 similar. It is automatically invoked (and configured through) i3.
 
-i3bar does not support any color or other markups, so stdin should be plain
-utf8, one line at a time. If you use *i3status*(1), you therefore should
-specify 'output_format = none' in the general section of its config file.
+i3bar supports colors via a JSON protocol starting from v4.2, see
+http://i3wm.org/docs/i3bar-protocol.html
 
 == ENVIRONMENT