Index: llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/tool-color.test
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/tool-color.test
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# RUN: not llvm-objdump --disassemble doesnotexist --color 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=COLOR
+# RUN: not llvm-objdump --disassemble doesnotexist --no-color 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=NOCOLOR
+# RUN: not llvm-objdump --color --no-color 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CONFLICT
+
+COLOR: error: 'doesnotexist'
+NOCOLOR-NOT [0;1;31m
+NOCOLOR: error: 'doesnotexist'
+CONFLICT: error: --color and --no-color are mutually exclusive
Index: llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/ObjdumpOpts.td
===================================================================
--- llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/ObjdumpOpts.td
+++ llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/ObjdumpOpts.td
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@
 
 def disassemble_zeroes : Flag<["--"], "disassemble-zeroes">,
   HelpText<"Do not skip blocks of zeroes when disassembling">;
+def no_color : Flag<["--"], "no-color">,
+  HelpText<"Disable color output">;
+def color : Flag<["--"], "color">,
+  HelpText<"Force color output">;
 def : Flag<["-"], "z">, Alias<disassemble_zeroes>,
   HelpText<"Alias for --disassemble-zeroes">;
 
Index: llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
===================================================================
--- llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
+++ llvm/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@
 
 #define DEBUG_TYPE "objdump"
 
+static bool NoColor;
+static bool ForceColor;
 static uint64_t AdjustVMA;
 static bool AllHeaders;
 static std::string ArchName;
@@ -234,6 +236,9 @@
 StringSet<> objdump::FoundSectionSet;
 static StringRef ToolName;
 
+static bool disableColor(const raw_ostream &OS) { return false; }
+static bool forceColor(const raw_ostream &OS) { return true; }
+
 std::unique_ptr<BuildIDFetcher> BIDFetcher;
 
 Dumper::Dumper(const object::ObjectFile &O) : O(O) {
@@ -1900,6 +1905,9 @@
 
       formatted_raw_ostream FOS(outs());
 
+      if (ForceColor)
+        FOS.enable_colors(true);
+
       std::unordered_map<uint64_t, std::string> AllLabels;
       std::unordered_map<uint64_t, std::vector<std::string>> BBAddrMapLabels;
       if (SymbolizeOperands) {
@@ -3330,6 +3338,18 @@
   else
     parseObjdumpOptions(InputArgs);
 
+  // We need to parse the color flags first. Parsing other properties might
+  // require us to print a colored error message.
+  NoColor = InputArgs.hasArg(OBJDUMP_no_color);
+  ForceColor = InputArgs.hasArg(OBJDUMP_color);
+  if (NoColor && ForceColor)
+    reportCmdLineError("--color and --no-color are mutually exclusive");
+
+  if (NoColor)
+    WithColor::setAutoDetectFunction(disableColor);
+  else if(ForceColor)
+    WithColor::setAutoDetectFunction(forceColor);
+
   if (StartAddress >= StopAddress)
     reportCmdLineError("start address should be less than stop address");