diff --git a/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/README.md b/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/README.md
index 3ee563740..319bff3d9 100644
--- a/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/README.md
+++ b/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## A façade module for the `chalk` library
 
-A logging concern for Quire/11ty implemented using [loglevel](https://github.com/pimterry/loglevel) and [chalk](https://github.com/chalk/).
+A logging concern for Quire/11ty implemented using [debug.js](https://github.com/debug-js/debug) and [chalk](https://github.com/chalk/).
 
-Nota bene: `chalk` v5 is an ESM only library, Eleventy uses v4. For more information see the [chalk v4 documentation](https://github.com/chalk/chalk/tree/v4.1.2).
+Log lines are in the format: `[quire] component:subComponent LEVEL ...message...`.
+
+Log level selection responds to globs on the `DEBUG` environment variable as it does for [11ty]() so `cross-env DEBUG='Eleventy*,*quire*' eleventy` will turn on logging for Eleventy itself and for quire while `cross-env DEBUG='*quire*' eleventy` will emit logs for only quire.
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diff --git a/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/index.js b/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/index.js
index bba7f3673..f4c127e5d 100644
--- a/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/index.js
+++ b/packages/11ty/_lib/chalk/index.js
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import chalk from 'chalk'
-import log from 'loglevel'
+import debug from 'debug'
 
 /**
- * A factory function for custom logging methods using loglevel and chalk
+ * A factory function for custom logging methods using debug and chalk
  *
  * @typedef Loglevel {Number|String} A numeric index or case-insensitive name
  *  [0]: 'trace'
@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ import log from 'loglevel'
  * @return {Object}  Logger with methods `debug`, error`, `info`, `trace` ,`warn`
  */
 export default function (prefix = '', loglevel = 2) {
-  /**
-   * Get a new logger object and set logging level (non-persistent)
-   * @see https://github.com/pimterry/loglevel
-   */
-  const logger = log.getLogger(prefix)
-  logger.setLevel(loglevel, false)
-
   /**
    * chalk themes
    * @see https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords
@@ -38,11 +31,31 @@ export default function (prefix = '', loglevel = 2) {
     warn: chalk.inverse.yellow
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Initialize loggers for each loglevel.
+   *
+   * NB: colors are manually disabled to use color-per-loglevel styling
+   *
+   * @see https://github.com/debug-js/debug
+   */
+  prefix = prefix.padEnd(30, '\u0020')
+
+  const loggers = {
+    debug: debug(styles.debug(`Quire:${prefix} ${chalk.bold('DEBUG')}\t`)),
+    error: debug(styles.error(`Quire:${prefix} ${chalk.bold('ERROR')}\t`)),
+    info: debug(styles.info(`Quire:${prefix} ${chalk.bold('INFO')}\t`)),
+    trace: debug(styles.trace(`Quire:${prefix} ${chalk.bold('TRACE')}\t`)),
+    warn: debug(styles.warn(`Quire:${prefix} ${chalk.bold('WARN')}\t`))
+  }
+
+  Object.entries(loggers).forEach(([logLevel, logger]) => {
+    logger.useColors = false
+  })
+
   const logFn = (type) => {
-    const log = logger[type]
+    const logger = loggers[type]
     const style = styles[type]
-    prefix = prefix.padEnd(30, '\u0020')
-    return (message) => log(style(chalk.bold(`[quire] ${type.toUpperCase()}\t`), `${prefix}`, message))
+    return (message) => logger(style(message))
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/packages/11ty/package.json b/packages/11ty/package.json
index aab03fac6..2a67b7348 100644
--- a/packages/11ty/package.json
+++ b/packages/11ty/package.json
@@ -25,9 +25,10 @@
   "main": ".eleventy.js",
   "scripts": {
     "benchmark": "cross-env DEBUG=Eleventy:Benchmark* eleventy",
-    "build": "cross-env ELEVENTY_ENV=production eleventy",
+    "build": "cross-env ELEVENTY_ENV=production DEBUG=\"\" eleventy",
     "clean": "del-cli _epub _site public",
-    "debug": "cross-env DEBUG=Eleventy* eleventy --dryrun",
+    "debug": "cross-env DEBUG='Eleventy*,*quire*' eleventy --dryrun",
+    "debug:quire": "cross-env DEBUG='*quire*' eleventy --dryrun",
     "dev": "cross-env ELEVENTY_ENV=development eleventy --serve",
     "lint": "eslint .",
     "lint:debug": "eslint . --debug",