diff --git a/src/logging_conf.py b/src/logging_conf.py
index 818e5003a916da19a787b4639a625c9b5b370a39..9672355bdc77c552e4904d192c537c785b127214 100644
--- a/src/logging_conf.py
+++ b/src/logging_conf.py
@@ -7,6 +7,45 @@ Description: this file contains a dictionary that allows to \
 configure the logging module of python
 """
 
+from typing import Dict, Any
+from pathlib import Path
+import logging
+import logging.config
+import coloredlogs
+
+
+class LoggingLevelError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+def logging_def(output: Path, script: str, level: str = "INFO"):
+    """
+    Define a logging at the current level of the script
+
+    :param output: Folder where the result will be created
+    :param script: The name of the script
+    :param level: The log level
+    """
+    possible_levels = ["INFO", "DEBUG", "ERROR", "WARNING", "CRITICAL"]
+    if level in possible_levels:
+        basename = str(Path(script).name).replace(".py", ".log")
+        LOGGING_CONFIG["handlers"]["file"]["filename"] = output / basename
+        LOGGING_CONFIG["loggers"][""]["level"] = level
+        logging.config.dictConfig(LOGGING_CONFIG)
+    elif level != "DISABLE":
+        raise LoggingLevelError(f"Logging level unknown : choose from "
+                                f"{possible_levels} or DISABLE to disable the "
+                                f"initialisation of logging in {__file__}")
+
+
+coloredlogs.DEFAULT_LEVEL_STYLES = {'critical': {'color': 'red', 'bold': True},
+                                    'debug': {'color': 'cyan', 'italic': True,
+                                              'bold': True},
+                                    'error': {'color': 'red', 'bold': True},
+                                    'info': {},
+                                    'warning': {'color': 'yellow',
+                                                'bold': True}}
+
 LOGGING_CONFIG = {
     'version': 1,
     'disable_existing_loggers': True,
@@ -16,6 +55,7 @@ LOGGING_CONFIG = {
                       'levelname)s - %(message)s'
         },
         "simple": {
+           '()': 'coloredlogs.ColoredFormatter',
            'format': '%(message)s'
         }
     },