Adds ability to configure stderr output color

src/tox/config/cli/parser.py

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Type, TypeVar, cast
 
+from colorama import Fore
+
 from tox.config.loader.str_convert import StrConvert
 from tox.plugin import NAME
 from tox.util.ci import is_ci
@@ -366,6 +368,12 @@ def add_color_flags(parser: ArgumentParser) -> None:
         choices=["yes", "no"],
         help="should output be enriched with colors, default is yes unless TERM=dumb or NO_COLOR is defined.",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--stderr-color",
+        default="RED",
+        choices=["0", *Fore.__dict__.keys()],
+        help="color for stderr output, use 0 to disable coloring.",
+    )
 
 
 def add_exit_and_dump_after(parser: ArgumentParser) -> None:

src/tox/execute/api.py

@@ -122,11 +122,13 @@ def call(
         env: ToxEnv,
     ) -> Iterator[ExecuteStatus]:
         start = time.monotonic()
+        stderr_color = env.conf._conf.options.stderr_color  # noqa: SLF001
+        stderr_color = None if stderr_color == "0" else Fore.__dict__[stderr_color]
         try:
             # collector is what forwards the content from the file streams to the standard streams
             out, err = out_err[0].buffer, out_err[1].buffer
             out_sync = SyncWrite(out.name, out if show else None)
-            err_sync = SyncWrite(err.name, err if show else None, Fore.RED if self._colored else None)
+            err_sync = SyncWrite(err.name, err if show else None, stderr_color)
             with out_sync, err_sync:
                 instance = self.build_instance(request, self._option_class(env), out_sync, err_sync)
                 with instance as status: