diff --git a/cmd/wmiimenu.1 b/cmd/wmiimenu.1
index 7fa0d958..925be0d5 100644
--- a/cmd/wmiimenu.1
+++ b/cmd/wmiimenu.1
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ remove all characters from the input field.
 WMII_FONT
 .TP
 WMII_NORMCOLORS
-This variable specifies the foreground, background, and border colors of a label. Syntactically, three whitespace separated color values of the form #RRGGBB are expected.
+This variable specifies the foreground, background, and border colors of a label. Syntactically, three blank-separated color values of the form #RRGGBB are expected.
 .TP
 WMII_SELCOLORS
 Like WMII_NORMCOLORS, but for the selected label.