diff --git a/vale/styles/spectrocloud/colon.yml b/vale/styles/spectrocloud/colon.yml
index b93711c7fa..7facf72223 100644
--- a/vale/styles/spectrocloud/colon.yml
+++ b/vale/styles/spectrocloud/colon.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ nonword: true
 level: error
 scope: raw
 tokens:
-  - '(?<!:)[:][\n]{2,}[^-\n]'
+  - '(?<!:):\n(?!\s*[-*])[\n]{1,}[^-\n]'
 exceptions:
   - '`[^`]*:[^`]*`'
+  - ':::'
+