diff --git a/benchmark.js b/benchmark.js
index c5c6e27..77b5113 100644
--- a/benchmark.js
+++ b/benchmark.js
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ suite('chalk', () => {
 		chalkRed('the fox jumps over the lazy dog');
 	});
 
+	bench('cached: 1 style with 2 arguments', () => {
+		chalkRed('Error:', 'the fox jumps over the lazy dog');
+	});
+
+	bench('cached: 1 style with 3 arguments', () => {
+		chalkRed('Error:', 'the fox', 'jumps');
+	});
+
 	bench('cached: 2 styles', () => {
 		chalkBlueBgRed('the fox jumps over the lazy dog');
 	});
diff --git a/source/index.js b/source/index.js
index 8bc993d..81073ce 100644
--- a/source/index.js
+++ b/source/index.js
@@ -150,9 +150,11 @@ const createStyler = (open, close, parent) => {
 };
 
 const createBuilder = (self, _styler, _isEmpty) => {
-	// Single argument is hot path, implicit coercion is faster than anything
+	// Single argument is the hot path, implicit coercion is faster than anything.
+	// Two arguments is also common (e.g., chalk.red('Error:', message)),
+	// so we optimize it with direct concatenation instead of join().
 	// eslint-disable-next-line no-implicit-coercion
-	const builder = (...arguments_) => applyStyle(builder, (arguments_.length === 1) ? ('' + arguments_[0]) : arguments_.join(' '));
+	const builder = (...arguments_) => applyStyle(builder, (arguments_.length === 1) ? ('' + arguments_[0]) : ((arguments_.length === 2) ? (arguments_[0] + ' ' + arguments_[1]) : arguments_.join(' ')));
 
 	// We alter the prototype because we must return a function, but there is
 	// no way to create a function with a different prototype
diff --git a/test/chalk.js b/test/chalk.js
index 8d58e45..0a1d555 100644
--- a/test/chalk.js
+++ b/test/chalk.js
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ test('alias gray to grey', t => {
 
 test('support variable number of arguments', t => {
 	t.is(chalk.red('foo', 'bar'), '\u001B[31mfoo bar\u001B[39m');
+	t.is(chalk.red('foo', 'bar', 'baz'), '\u001B[31mfoo bar baz\u001B[39m');
 });
 
 test('support falsy values', t => {