There is an option that changes each person's name to a specific color when they talk in any channel (but not in emotes). However, each name has its own color, you can't pick them.
It's not what you're looking for, but if you didn't know of it, it may help to turn it on. It's in Options... somewhere.
P.S.: The color of the name is set by what letters are in the name, it's nothing a player can control.
"I do so love taking a nice, well thought out character and putting them through hell. It's like tossing a Faberge Egg onto the stage during a Gallagher concert." - me
@Palador / @Rabid Unicorn
Wow, Rabid, that's cool. I need to poke around Options more, I think.
- Ashley
[Rocker Girl (Earth/Earth Dom); Sweet Venom (Plant/Time Ctrl)]
We can already change the color of channel text. Is it possible that we can get the ability to change the colors of certain global names (not seeing their global names, just their local)? I'll often get lost in a storm of local chat or broadcast, and I'd like to set it up so that the names of the people I'm currently talking to are pink or summat. I know you can just invite them to team and all, but it would be a nice quality of life improvement, since the uses I could put it to are many (up to and including commonly-teamed-with globals in red or pink so I can see them even quicker than the stars).