diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f0cb05c71..e32aa954c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2062,7 +2062,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "toml_edit 0.21.1",
  "tower",
  "tower-http",
- "tracing-subscriber",
  "walkdir",
  "wasm-bindgen-cli-support",
  "zip",
diff --git a/packages/cli/Cargo.toml b/packages/cli/Cargo.toml
index 240e8ee0c..e10d2c270 100644
--- a/packages/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ interprocess = { workspace = true }
 # interprocess-docfix = { version = "1.2.2" }
 ignore = "0.4.22"
 env_logger = "0.11.3"
-tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/lib.rs b/packages/cli/src/lib.rs
index 37d234aa8..5c904d7ba 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages/cli/src/lib.rs
@@ -15,5 +15,8 @@ pub use cli::*;
 pub mod error;
 pub use error::*;
 
+pub mod logging;
+pub use logging::*;
+
 #[cfg(feature = "plugin")]
 pub mod plugin;
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/logging.rs b/packages/cli/src/logging.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d902f86f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/src/logging.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+use fern::colors::{Color, ColoredLevelConfig};
+
+pub fn set_up_logging() {
+    // configure colors for the whole line
+    let colors_line = ColoredLevelConfig::new()
+        .error(Color::Red)
+        .warn(Color::Yellow)
+        // we actually don't need to specify the color for debug and info, they are white by default
+        .info(Color::White)
+        .debug(Color::White)
+        // depending on the terminals color scheme, this is the same as the background color
+        .trace(Color::BrightBlack);
+
+    // configure colors for the name of the level.
+    // since almost all of them are the same as the color for the whole line, we
+    // just clone `colors_line` and overwrite our changes
+    let colors_level = colors_line.info(Color::Green);
+    // here we set up our fern Dispatch
+    fern::Dispatch::new()
+        .format(move |out, message, record| {
+            out.finish(format_args!(
+                "{color_line}[{level}{color_line}] {message}\x1B[0m",
+                color_line = format_args!(
+                    "\x1B[{}m",
+                    colors_line.get_color(&record.level()).to_fg_str()
+                ),
+                level = colors_level.color(record.level()),
+            ));
+        })
+        .level(match std::env::var("DIOXUS_LOG") {
+            Ok(level) => match level.to_lowercase().as_str() {
+                "error" => log::LevelFilter::Error,
+                "warn" => log::LevelFilter::Warn,
+                "info" => log::LevelFilter::Info,
+                "debug" => log::LevelFilter::Debug,
+                "trace" => log::LevelFilter::Trace,
+                _ => {
+                    panic!("Invalid log level: {}", level)
+                }
+            },
+            Err(_) => log::LevelFilter::Info,
+        })
+        .chain(std::io::stdout())
+        .apply()
+        .unwrap();
+}
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/main.rs b/packages/cli/src/main.rs
index 07b2609bf..4943e6e3b 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/packages/cli/src/main.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ use Commands::*;
 async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let args = Cli::parse();
 
-    tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
+    #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
+    env_logger::init();
+
+    // set_up_logging();
 
     match args.action {
         Translate(opts) => opts