diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9086f22e2da..3daa4695ddd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ colorama==0.3.7
 jmespath
 mock==1.3.0
 pip
+pygments==2.1.3
 pylint==1.5.4
 pyyaml==3.11
 requests==2.9.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e16c24b5269..1eac18b9a11 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
     'msrest>=0.4.0',
     'msrestazure>=0.4.0',
     'pip',
+    'pygments',
     'pyyaml',
     'requests',
     'six',
diff --git a/src/azure/cli/_output.py b/src/azure/cli/_output.py
index 411e30177eb..3851e993eda 100644
--- a/src/azure/cli/_output.py
+++ b/src/azure/cli/_output.py
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ def format_json(obj):
     return json.dumps(input_dict, indent=2, sort_keys=True, cls=ComplexEncoder,
                       separators=(',', ': ')) + '\n'
 
+def format_json_color(obj):
+    from pygments import highlight, lexers, formatters
+    return highlight(format_json(obj), lexers.JsonLexer(), formatters.TerminalFormatter()) # pylint: disable=no-member
+
 def format_table(obj):
     result = obj.result
     try:
@@ -90,6 +94,7 @@ class OutputProducer(object): #pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
 
     format_dict = {
         'json': format_json,
+        'jsonc': format_json_color,
         'table': format_table,
         'text': format_text,
         'list': format_list,
diff --git a/src/azure/cli/application.py b/src/azure/cli/application.py
index 9478e0a2bf2..83d7d1e8ce9 100644
--- a/src/azure/cli/application.py
+++ b/src/azure/cli/application.py
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def _register_builtin_arguments(**kwargs):
         global_group = kwargs['global_group']
         global_group.add_argument('--subscription', dest='_subscription_id', help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
         global_group.add_argument('--output', '-o', dest='_output_format',
-                                  choices=['json', 'tsv', 'list', 'table'],
+                                  choices=['json', 'tsv', 'list', 'table', 'jsonc'],
                                   default='json',
                                   help='Output format',
                                   type=str.lower)