debug output in red?

Hii

I’d like to signal something important during a playbook run.

Currently I’m using the assert module to test for a condition, and then fail, and then use ignore_errors: true. But that seems a bit kludgy.
Is there another way to achieve the same goal?
I know it may sound lame but is it possible to have the output of debug be in red?
I can then just add a when condition to it and be done.

thx!

Dick