diff --git a/FixedOrderGen/include/Subleading.hh b/FixedOrderGen/include/Subleading.hh
index 9f785e1..69093c4 100644
--- a/FixedOrderGen/include/Subleading.hh
+++ b/FixedOrderGen/include/Subleading.hh
@@ -1,34 +1,36 @@
 /**
  *  \authors   The HEJ collaboration (see AUTHORS for details)
  *  \date      2019
  *  \copyright GPLv2 or later
  */
 #pragma once
 
 #include <bitset>
+#include <string_view>
 
 namespace HEJFOG {
   namespace subleading { //!< @TODO confusing name with capital Subleading
     /**
      * Bit position of different subleading channels
      * e.g. (unsigned int) 1 => only unordered
      */
     enum Channels: unsigned {
       uno,
       unordered = uno,
       cqqbar,
       central_qqbar = cqqbar,
       eqqbar,
       extremal_qqbar = eqqbar,
       first = uno,
       last = eqqbar,
     };
   } // namespace subleading
+  std::string_view name(subleading::Channels c);
 
   using Subleading = std::bitset<subleading::Channels::last+1>;
 
   namespace subleading {
     static constexpr Subleading ALL{~0u};
     static constexpr Subleading NONE{0u};
   }
 } // namespace HEJFOG
diff --git a/FixedOrderGen/src/Subleading.cc b/FixedOrderGen/src/Subleading.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..053bfed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/FixedOrderGen/src/Subleading.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#include "Subleading.hh"
+#include <stdexcept>
+
+namespace HEJFOG {
+  using namespace subleading;
+  using namespace std::string_view_literals;
+
+  std::string_view name(Channels const c){
+    switch(c) {
+    case unordered:
+      return "unordered"sv;
+    case central_qqbar:
+      return "central qqbar"sv;
+    case extremal_qqbar:
+      return "extremal qqbar"sv;
+    }
+    throw std::logic_error{"Channel not included"};
+  }
+}