diff --git a/src/onionrutils/escapeansi.py b/src/onionrutils/escapeansi.py
index ca635097..1641da39 100644
--- a/src/onionrutils/escapeansi.py
+++ b/src/onionrutils/escapeansi.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import re
+
+
 def escape_ANSI(line):
     '''
         Remove ANSI escape codes from a string with regex
diff --git a/tests/runtime-result.txt b/tests/runtime-result.txt
index 652cfcbb..158d9521 100644
--- a/tests/runtime-result.txt
+++ b/tests/runtime-result.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
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diff --git a/tests/test_escape_ansi.py b/tests/test_escape_ansi.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b0cc8fc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_escape_ansi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import sys, os, random
+sys.path.append(".")
+sys.path.append("src/")
+import unittest, uuid
+TEST_DIR_1 = 'testdata/%s-%s' % (uuid.uuid4(), os.path.basename(__file__)) + '/'
+TEST_DIR_2 = 'testdata/%s-%s' % (uuid.uuid4(), os.path.basename(__file__)) + '/'
+import time
+
+os.environ["ONIONR_HOME"] = TEST_DIR_1
+from utils import identifyhome, createdirs
+from onionrsetup import setup_config
+createdirs.create_dirs()
+
+from onionrutils.escapeansi import escape_ANSI
+
+class Colors:
+    """ ANSI color codes """
+    BLACK = "\033[0;30m"
+    RED = "\033[0;31m"
+    GREEN = "\033[0;32m"
+    BROWN = "\033[0;33m"
+    BLUE = "\033[0;34m"
+    PURPLE = "\033[0;35m"
+    CYAN = "\033[0;36m"
+    LIGHT_GRAY = "\033[0;37m"
+    DARK_GRAY = "\033[1;30m"
+    LIGHT_RED = "\033[1;31m"
+    LIGHT_GREEN = "\033[1;32m"
+    YELLOW = "\033[1;33m"
+    LIGHT_BLUE = "\033[1;34m"
+    LIGHT_PURPLE = "\033[1;35m"
+    LIGHT_CYAN = "\033[1;36m"
+    LIGHT_WHITE = "\033[1;37m"
+    BOLD = "\033[1m"
+    FAINT = "\033[2m"
+    ITALIC = "\033[3m"
+    UNDERLINE = "\033[4m"
+    BLINK = "\033[5m"
+    NEGATIVE = "\033[7m"
+    CROSSED = "\033[9m"
+    END = "\033[0m"
+
+class OnionrForwardSecrecyTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_no_replace(self):
+        msg = 'test message'
+        self.assertEqual(escape_ANSI(msg), msg)
+
+    def test_escape_ansi(self):
+        msg = "test"
+        for color in dir(Colors):
+            color = getattr(Colors, color)
+            try:
+                if '[' not in color and r'\0' not in color: continue
+            except TypeError:
+                continue
+            try:
+                self.assertEqual(escape_ANSI(color + msg), msg)
+            except TypeError:
+                pass
+            self.assertEqual(escape_ANSI(msg), msg)
+
+unittest.main()