diff --git a/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb b/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb
index 069e7372..be4483cf 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb
+++ b/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ module Linguist
     #
     # Returns html String
     def colorize(options = {})
-      return if !text? || large?
+      return if !text? || large? || generated?
       options[:options] ||= {}
       options[:options][:encoding] ||= encoding
       lexer.highlight(data, options)
@@ -575,7 +575,6 @@ module Linguist
     #
     # Returns html String
     def colorize_without_wrapper(options = {})
-      return if !text? || large?
       if text = colorize(options)
         text[%r{<div class="highlight"><pre>(.*?)</pre>\s*</div>}m, 1]
       else
diff --git a/test/test_blob.rb b/test/test_blob.rb
index 56cd7f5e..adcdd226 100644
--- a/test/test_blob.rb
+++ b/test/test_blob.rb
@@ -431,4 +431,8 @@ class TestBlob < Test::Unit::TestCase
 <span class="k">end</span>
     HTML
   end
+
+  def test_colorize_skips_minified_files
+    assert_nil blob("jquery-1.6.1.min.js").colorize
+  end
 end