diff --git a/stubs/Pillow/PIL/Image.pyi b/stubs/Pillow/PIL/Image.pyi
index 6f8ac1d40..98656a786 100644
--- a/stubs/Pillow/PIL/Image.pyi
+++ b/stubs/Pillow/PIL/Image.pyi
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ class Image:
 class ImagePointHandler: ...
 class ImageTransformHandler: ...
 
-def new(mode: _Mode, size: tuple[int, int], color: float | Tuple[float, ...] = ...) -> Image: ...
+def new(mode: _Mode, size: tuple[int, int], color: float | Tuple[float, ...] | str = ...) -> Image: ...
 def frombytes(mode: _Mode, size: tuple[int, int], data, decoder_name: str = ..., *args) -> Image: ...
 def frombuffer(mode: _Mode, size: tuple[int, int], data, decoder_name: str = ..., *args) -> Image: ...
 def fromarray(obj, mode: _Mode | None = ...) -> Image: ...