diff --git a/dune/stuff/common/logging.hh b/dune/stuff/common/logging.hh
index 845b336dd6e056fb94cba6c548af2b427aa83bcb..9ea68288e7aeb7b0b99ce65bca0562981761bdab 100644
--- a/dune/stuff/common/logging.hh
+++ b/dune/stuff/common/logging.hh
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ public:
   }
   static const std::string default_debug_color()
   {
-    return "lightgray";
+    return "darkgray";
   }
   static const std::string default_warning_color()
   {
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ int main()
   logger.warn() << "<- The 'warn' prefix left of this should be red!"   << std::endl;
 }
 \endcode
- * \note Debug logging is only enabled if NDEBUG is not defined.
+ * \note Debug logging is only enabled if NDEBUG is not defined but you might still want to guard calls to
+ *       logger.debug() for performance reasons.
  */
 TimedLogging& TimedLogger();