--- dmenu.c
+++ dmenu.c
@@ -728,7 +773,8 @@ static void
 usage(void)
 {
 	fputs("usage: dmenu [-bfiv] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-m monitor]\n"
-	      "             [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-w windowid]\n", stderr);
+	      "             [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-w windowid]\n"
+		  "             [-hb color] [-hf color] [-hp items]\n", stderr);
 	exit(1);
 }
 
@@ -769,8 +815,14 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			colors[SchemeSel][ColBg] = argv[++i];
 		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-sf"))  /* selected foreground color */
 			colors[SchemeSel][ColFg] = argv[++i];
+		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-hb"))  /* high priority background color */
+			colors[SchemeHp][ColBg] = argv[++i];
+		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-hf")) /* low priority background color */
+			colors[SchemeHp][ColFg] = argv[++i];
 		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-w"))   /* embedding window id */
 			embed = argv[++i];
+		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-hp"))
+			hpitems = tokenize(argv[++i], ",", &hplength);
 		else
 			usage();