diff --git a/lib/linguist/languages.yml b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
index 5526dd85..697d94f7 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/languages.yml
+++ b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ Emacs Lisp:
 
 Erlang:
   type: programming
-  color: "#949e0e"
+  color: "#0faf8d"
   primary_extension: .erl
   extensions:
   - .hrl