diff --git a/kubedownscaler/main.py b/kubedownscaler/main.py
index 6c983a5..0386b84 100644
--- a/kubedownscaler/main.py
+++ b/kubedownscaler/main.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import argparse
 from kubernetes import client, config
 from kubernetes.client.rest import ApiException
-
+from termcolor import cprint
 
 def annotate(api, kind: str, name: str, namespace: str, value: str):
     '''
@@ -47,8 +47,16 @@ def scale(api, kind: str, name: str, namespace: str, from_replicas: int, to_repl
     '''
     Scale a kube resource to a new number of replicas
     '''
-    print(
-        f"Scaling {kind} {namespace}/{name} from {from_replicas} to {to_replicas} replicas")
+
+    if to_replicas > from_replicas:
+        colour = 'green'
+    elif to_replicas < from_replicas:
+        colour = 'red'
+    else:
+        colour = 'yellow'
+
+    cprint(
+        f"Scaling {kind} {namespace}/{name} from {from_replicas} to {to_replicas} replicas", colour)
 
     body = {"spec": {"replicas": to_replicas}}
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 021f7fd..246a019 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ files = [
     {file = "PyYAML-6.0.1-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:bf07ee2fef7014951eeb99f56f39c9bb4af143d8aa3c21b1677805985307da34"},
     {file = "PyYAML-6.0.1-cp312-cp312-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:855fb52b0dc35af121542a76b9a84f8d1cd886ea97c84703eaa6d88e37a2ad28"},
     {file = "PyYAML-6.0.1-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:40df9b996c2b73138957fe23a16a4f0ba614f4c0efce1e9406a184b6d07fa3a9"},
-    {file = "PyYAML-6.0.1-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:a08c6f0fe150303c1c6b71ebcd7213c2858041a7e01975da3a99aed1e7a378ef"},
     {file = "PyYAML-6.0.1-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:6c22bec3fbe2524cde73d7ada88f6566758a8f7227bfbf93a408a9d86bcc12a0"},
     {file = "PyYAML-6.0.1-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_1_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:8d4e9c88387b0f5c7d5f281e55304de64cf7f9c0021a3525bd3b1c542da3b0e4"},
     {file = "PyYAML-6.0.1-cp312-cp312-win32.whl", hash = "sha256:d483d2cdf104e7c9fa60c544d92981f12ad66a457afae824d146093b8c294c54"},
@@ -572,6 +571,20 @@ files = [
     {file = "six-1.16.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1e61c37477a1626458e36f7b1d82aa5c9b094fa4802892072e49de9c60c4c926"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termcolor"
+version = "2.5.0"
+description = "ANSI color formatting for output in terminal"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.9"
+files = [
+    {file = "termcolor-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:37b17b5fc1e604945c2642c872a3764b5d547a48009871aea3edd3afa180afb8"},
+    {file = "termcolor-2.5.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:998d8d27da6d48442e8e1f016119076b690d962507531df4890fcd2db2ef8a6f"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+tests = ["pytest", "pytest-cov"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.10.2"
@@ -731,4 +744,4 @@ files = [
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "62e039a662d13635f847ec11c81bec3a3bb4de80b63d097f56b97550d898979f"
+content-hash = "c447c21287bc8f39ff369d3c8f592f24e9966db58bcf78692054853d57dc09e1"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f9b2113..3d32852 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ kubectl-downscale = 'kubedownscaler.main:main'
 python = "^3.10"
 kubernetes = "^19.15.0"
 argparse = "^1.4.0"
+termcolor = "^2.3.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 autopep8 = "^1.6.0"