Code inspection highlight: cannot set different highlight style for Info and Weak Warning severities

Question

In Android Studio 2.1.2 I'm having trouble setting the highlight style for the Info severity level (as determined by my code inspections profile). It shows up using the Weak Warning style instead.

I followed the instructions from the official docs here but I don't see an entry for Info, only for Weak Warning. It feels like a bug in the IDE because when I click on the "Edit|Colors & Fonts" button, I'm taken to the last item I had selected in that section rather than to the correct item, ie "Info" (or perhaps that's because no such "Info" item exists).

I haven't been able to figure out how to add a new item for "Info" to the list under Colors & Fonts either.

Answer 1

The INFO severity is deprecated as stated in a comment to the issue IDEA-137974 Cannot change the color of the "info" severity:

"INFO" level is deprecated since 2011 but it seems users don't know about it. I removed this severity from settings (will be available in 2016.3). If you want to have an additional severity you can always create it.

BTW in 2016.3 you will have INFORMATION severity. Particularly, this severity has no highlighting.

So you can create your own severity with your favorite colors via Severity -> Edit severities... and use this one instead.