diff --git a/buildconfig/stubs/pygame/color.pyi b/buildconfig/stubs/pygame/color.pyi
index 10980f347c..fc2fb489fb 100644
--- a/buildconfig/stubs/pygame/color.pyi
+++ b/buildconfig/stubs/pygame/color.pyi
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class Color(Collection[int]):
     def __mod__(self, other: Color) -> Color: ...
     def __int__(self) -> int: ...
     def __float__(self) -> float: ...
+    def __bytes__(self) -> bytes: ...
     def __len__(self) -> int: ...
     def __index__(self) -> int: ...
     def __invert__(self) -> Color: ...
diff --git a/docs/reST/ref/color.rst b/docs/reST/ref/color.rst
index 05effd8888..114559ebba 100644
--- a/docs/reST/ref/color.rst
+++ b/docs/reST/ref/color.rst
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@
    :returns: a newly created :class:`Color` object
    :rtype: Color
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.5.6
+      ``bytes(Color(...))`` (assuming `bytes <https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes>`_ is
+      the built-in type) now returns a ``bytes`` object (of length 4) with the RGBA values of the color,
+      as opposed to :class:`Color` being interpreted as an integer (think ``int(Color(...))``) causing it
+      to return a ``bytes`` object filled with 0s the length of said integer.
    .. versionchangedold:: 2.0.0
       Support for tuples, lists, and :class:`Color` objects when creating
       :class:`Color` objects.
diff --git a/src_c/color.c b/src_c/color.c
index 694a7853d9..83908ebc90 100644
--- a/src_c/color.c
+++ b/src_c/color.c
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ _color_int(pgColorObject *);
 static PyObject *
 _color_float(pgColorObject *);
 
+static PyObject *
+_color_bytes(pgColorObject *);
+
 /* Sequence protocol methods */
 static Py_ssize_t
 _color_length(pgColorObject *);
@@ -256,6 +259,17 @@ static PyMethodDef _color_methods[] = {
     {"premul_alpha", (PyCFunction)_premul_alpha, METH_NOARGS,
      DOC_COLOR_PREMULALPHA},
     {"update", (PyCFunction)_color_update, METH_FASTCALL, DOC_COLOR_UPDATE},
+
+    /**
+     * While object.__bytes__(self) is listed in the Data Model reference (see:
+     * https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__bytes__) it
+     * does not appear to have a PyTypeObject struct analog (see:
+     * https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj.html), so we declare it for the
+     * type as any other custom method.
+     */
+    {"__bytes__", (PyCFunction)_color_bytes, METH_NOARGS,
+     "Get a byte representation of the color"},
+
     {NULL, NULL, 0, NULL}};
 
 /**
@@ -1753,6 +1767,15 @@ _color_float(pgColorObject *color)
     return PyFloat_FromDouble((double)tmp);
 }
 
+/**
+ * bytes(color)
+ */
+static PyObject *
+_color_bytes(pgColorObject *color)
+{
+    return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize((char *)color->data, 4);
+}
+
 /* Sequence protocol methods */
 
 /**
diff --git a/test/color_test.py b/test/color_test.py
index addb2d6591..5662ef0a43 100644
--- a/test/color_test.py
+++ b/test/color_test.py
@@ -773,6 +773,17 @@ def test_long(self):
         self.assertEqual(c.a, 146)
         self.assertEqual(int(c), int(0x33727592))
 
+    def test_bytes(self):
+        c = pygame.Color(0x00012345)
+        self.assertEqual(c.r, 0x00)
+        self.assertEqual(c.g, 0x01)
+        self.assertEqual(c.b, 0x23)
+        self.assertEqual(c.a, 0x45)
+
+        as_bytes = bytes(c)
+        self.assertEqual(as_bytes, bytes([0x00, 0x01, 0x23, 0x45]))
+        self.assertEqual(len(as_bytes), 4)
+
     def test_from_cmy(self):
         cmy = pygame.Color.from_cmy(0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
         cmy_tuple = pygame.Color.from_cmy((0.5, 0.5, 0.5))