diff --git a/openide.io/apichanges.xml b/openide.io/apichanges.xml
--- a/openide.io/apichanges.xml
+++ b/openide.io/apichanges.xml
@@ -107,6 +107,24 @@
     <!-- ACTUAL CHANGES BEGIN HERE: -->
 
 <changes>
+    <change id="coloredLoggingText">
+      <api name="io"/>
+      <summary>Added LOG_SUCCESS, LOG_FAILURE, LOG_WARNING and LOG_DEBUG into IOColors.OutputType to be able to specify a color of logging messages.</summary>
+      <version major="1" minor="40"/>
+      <date day="25" month="4" year="2013"/>
+      <author login="jhavlin"/>
+      <compatibility addition="yes" binary="compatible" semantic="compatible" />
+      <description>
+          <p>
+              Added enum elements <code>LOG_SUCCESS, LOG_FAILURE, LOG_WARNING
+              and LOG_DEBUG</code> into <code>IOColors.OutputType</code>
+              that can be passed to get/setColor methods to have access
+              to color of standard logging messages.
+          </p>
+      </description>
+      <class package="org.openide.windows" name="IOColors"/>
+      <issue number="225439" />
+    </change>
     <change id="coloredInput">
       <api name="io"/>
       <summary>Added IOColors.OutputType.INPUT to be able to specify a color of input text.</summary>
diff --git a/openide.io/manifest.mf b/openide.io/manifest.mf
--- a/openide.io/manifest.mf
+++ b/openide.io/manifest.mf
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Manifest-Version: 1.0
 OpenIDE-Module: org.openide.io
-OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 1.39
+OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 1.40
 OpenIDE-Module-Localizing-Bundle: org/openide/io/Bundle.properties
 OpenIDE-Module-Recommends: org.openide.windows.IOProvider, org.openide.windows.IOContainer$Provider
 AutoUpdate-Essential-Module: true
diff --git a/openide.io/src/org/openide/windows/IOColors.java b/openide.io/src/org/openide/windows/IOColors.java
--- a/openide.io/src/org/openide/windows/IOColors.java
+++ b/openide.io/src/org/openide/windows/IOColors.java
@@ -91,6 +91,22 @@
         /** input text
          * @since 1.39 */
         INPUT,
+        /** Info about success. Change is not guaranteed to affect colored
+         * output written in the past.
+         * @since 1.40 */
+        LOG_SUCCESS,
+        /** Info about failure. Change is not guaranteed to affect colored
+         * output written in the past.
+         * @since 1.40 */
+        LOG_FAILURE,
+        /**Info about warning. Change is not guaranteed to affect colored
+         * output written in the past.
+         * @since 1.40 */
+        LOG_WARNING,
+        /** Debugging info. Change is not guaranteed to affect colored
+         * output written in the past.
+         * @since 1.40 */
+        LOG_DEBUG
     }
 
     /**