diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 814539d4b0f420b4ec33e0d6390114f98b414823..86f466cbaa9e5c793b7a066ba201341cc36a929d 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-const gulp = require('gulp'),
+/* eslint-disable one-var */
+const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer'),
+	chalk = require('chalk'),
 	concat = require('gulp-concat'),
+	gulp = require('gulp'),
 	git = require('gulp-git'),
 	log = require('fancy-log-levels'),
 	noop = require('gulp-noop'),
@@ -8,7 +11,6 @@ const gulp = require('gulp'),
 	sort = require('gulp-sort'),
 	sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'),
 	stripCssJSComments = require('gulp-strip-comments'),
-	autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer'),
 	which = require('which'),
 	fs = require('fs'),
 	path = require('path'),
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ const gulp = require('gulp'),
 const args = yargs.options({
 	verbosity: {type: 'number', default: 0},
 	release: {type: 'boolean', default: false},
+	minify: {type: 'boolean', default: false},
 	embedsourcemaps: {type: 'boolean', default: false},
 	sourcemapsincludecontent: {type: 'boolean', default: false}
 }).argv;
@@ -45,6 +48,23 @@ function tweeCompilerExecutable() {
 	return res;
 }
 
+function minifierExecutable() {
+	if (os.arch() !== 'x64') {
+		log.error(chalk.red("Minification only available on amd64 systems."));
+		throw "Build interrupted";
+	}
+	const archSuffix = 'amd64';
+	const platformSuffix = {
+		'Darwin': 'darwin',
+		'Linux': 'linux',
+		'Windows_NT': 'win'
+	}[os.type()];
+	const extension = os.type() === 'Windows_NT' ? '.exe' : '';
+	const res = path.join('.', 'devTools', 'minify', `minify_${platformSuffix}_${archSuffix}${extension}`);
+	log.info('Using minifier at ', res);
+	return res;
+}
+
 function tweeCompileCommand() {
 	let sources = [path.join(cfg.dirs.intermediate, "story")];
 	sources.push(...cfg.sources.story.media);
@@ -183,6 +203,11 @@ function moveHTMLInPlace(cb) {
 	fs.rename(path.join(cfg.dirs.intermediate, htmlOut), path.join(cfg.dirs.output, cfg.output), cb);
 }
 
+if (args.minify) { // do not touch minifierExecutable() which throws on errors
+	gulp.task('moveAndMinifyHTML', shell.task(
+		`${minifierExecutable()} --html-keep-comments --js-keep-var-names -o "${path.join(cfg.dirs.output, cfg.output)}" "${path.join(cfg.dirs.intermediate, htmlOut)}"`));
+}
+
 function clean(cb) {
 	if (fs.existsSync(cfg.gitVersionFile)) {
 		fs.unlinkSync(cfg.gitVersionFile);
@@ -206,8 +231,7 @@ const themeTasks = fs.readdirSync('themes')
 	.map(entry => makeThemeCompilationTask(entry));
 
 
-
-exports.html = gulp.series('buildHTML', moveHTMLInPlace);
+exports.html = gulp.series('buildHTML', args.minify ? 'moveAndMinifyHTML' : moveHTMLInPlace);
 exports.themes = gulp.parallel(themeTasks);
 exports.clean = clean;
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 57d6a17b50e78d3d3b8d5a5529808231750d9c54..705bf5272664a2e4ab994b3236fe75095273bb6f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 		"@types/lodash": "^4.14.159",
 		"@types/mousetrap": "^1.6.3",
 		"@types/twine-sugarcube": "^2.33.0",
-		"autoprefixer": "^10.0.0",
 		"eslint": "^7.6.0",
 		"eslint-plugin-jsdoc": "^32.0.0",
 		"eslint-plugin-sonarjs": "^0.6.0",
@@ -25,6 +24,8 @@
 		"typescript": "^4.2.0"
 	},
 	"dependencies": {
+		"autoprefixer": "^10.0.0",
+		"chalk": "^4.1.0",
 		"fancy-log-levels": "^1.0.0",
 		"gulp": "^4.0.2",
 		"gulp-concat": "^2.6.1",