diff --git a/types/colornames/colornames-tests.ts b/types/colornames/colornames-tests.ts
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+import colorNames = require("colornames");
+
+// $ExpectType Color
+const color = colorNames("red");
+
+// $ExpectType string
+color.value;
+// $ExpectType boolean | undefined
+color.css;
+// $ExpectType boolean | undefined
+color.vga;
+// $ExpectType string
+color.name;
+
+// $ExpectType Color
+colorNames.get("blue");
+// $ExpectType Color[]
+colorNames.get.all();
+// $ExpectType Color[]
+colorNames.get.css();
+// $ExpectType Color
+colorNames.get.css("orange");
+// $ExpectType Color[]
+colorNames.get.vga();
+// $ExpectType Color
+colorNames.get.vga("violet");
+
+// $ExpectType Color[]
+colorNames.all();
diff --git a/types/colornames/index.d.ts b/types/colornames/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for colornames 1.1
+// Project: https://github.com/timoxley/colornames#readme
+// Definitions by: Manuel Thalmann <https://github.com/manuth>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+/**
+ * Represents a color.
+ */
+interface Color {
+    /**
+     * Gets the value of the color.
+     */
+    value: string;
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a value indicating whether the color is a valid `CSS`-color.
+     */
+    css?: boolean;
+
+    /**
+     * Gets a value indicating whether the color is a valid `VGA`-color.
+     */
+    vga?: boolean;
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the name of the color.
+     */
+    name: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Povides the functionality to resolve colors of a specific type by its name.
+ */
+interface ColorResolver {
+    /**
+     * Gets the color with the specified name.
+     *
+     * @param name
+     * The name of the color to get.
+     */
+    (name: string): Color;
+
+    /**
+     * Gets all colors.
+     */
+    (): Color[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Provides the functionality to resolve any kind of color by its name.
+ */
+interface GlobalResolver {
+    /**
+     * Gets the color with the specified name.
+     */
+    (name: string): Color;
+
+    /**
+     * Provides the functionality to query colors.
+     */
+    get: {
+        /**
+         * Gets the color with the specified name.
+         *
+         * @param name
+         * The name of the color to get.
+         */
+        (name: string): Color;
+
+        /**
+         * Gets all available colors.
+         */
+        all(): Color[];
+
+        /**
+         * Provides the functionality to resolve `css`-colors.
+         */
+        css: ColorResolver;
+
+        /**
+         * Provides the functionality to resolve `vga`-colors.
+         */
+        vga: ColorResolver;
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * Gets all available colors.
+     */
+    all(): Color[];
+}
+
+declare let colorNames: GlobalResolver;
+export = colorNames;
diff --git a/types/colornames/tsconfig.json b/types/colornames/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "colornames-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/colornames/tslint.json b/types/colornames/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }