> Distracting from what? Are you just looking at the colors and nothing else as soon as there are any? Yes. > I think colors are a great way to enhance output

> Distracting from what? Are you just looking at the colors and nothing else as soon as there are any? Yes. > I think colors are a great way to enhance output, as it is like a third dimension to formatting. I don't. I view them as a OOB marker that causes the coloured content to effectively jump the queue into my brain. > having errors in red immediately can signal something bad happened. As a specific counter-example: I'm often interested in the log output that occurred right before something bad happened, so having errors in red is exactly what I don't want.