Most developers laugh at me when I say I don't want color coded logs. They rarely ask why. Logs with color coded structures provide no actionable information. They actually obscure actionable information by forcing a distinction without a difference. What I am looking for are clues in the logs. Those clues are often easily overlooked small tokens. I use color or inversion to distinguish them so that their occurrence immediately stands out from the background noise. The highlight script is a simple tool for this.