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url: /layouts/colored.md
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# Colored layout

* type - `colored`

This layout is the same as basic, except that the timestamp, level and category will be colored according to the log event's level (if your terminal/file supports it - if you see some weird characters in your output and no color then you should probably switch to basic). The colors used are:

* TRACE - `blue`
* DEBUG - `cyan`
* INFO - `green`
* WARN - `yellow`
* ERROR - `red`
* FATAL - `magenta`

## Example

```typescript
import {Logger} from "@tsed/logger";
import {StdoutAppender} from "@tsed/logger-std";
import {ColoredLayout} from "@tsed/logger/layouts/ColoredLayout.js";

const logger = new Logger("loggerName");

logger.appenders.set("std-log", {
  type: StdoutAppender,
  layout: ColoredLayout,
  levels: ["debug", "info", "trace"]
});
logger.debug("Log something");
```

This will output:

```bash
[2017-03-30 07:57:00.113] [DEBUG] [loggerName] - Log something
```