diff --git a/src/bridge/colors.hpp b/src/bridge/colors.hpp
index b5e6e7b..2ba80ee 100644
--- a/src/bridge/colors.hpp
+++ b/src/bridge/colors.hpp
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ namespace Xmpp
 // Contains:
 // - an XMPP-valid UTF-8 body
 // - an XML node representing the XHTML-IM body, or null
-  typedef std::tuple<const std::string, std::unique_ptr<XmlNode>> body;
+  using body = std::tuple<const std::string, std::unique_ptr<XmlNode>>;
 }
 
 #define IRC_FORMAT_BOLD_CHAR       '\x02' // done