I agree with Orion66, this would be useful. Often while playing I get tired of my interface colours and feel like changing them, except that I can't. It should be a graphical setting just like any other.
Procenix
sam0t, They do use them, if they are smart enough I guess. I played a game this weekend where a minor race was being crushed by the Drengin, and they asked me for help. I sent them 2 of my uber ships (was maxed out on tech) and they used these ships in the very next turn to rip the Drengin a new one
When changing my ship colours to new colours, the old colours still show up in the ship portraits, even though in-game, they are the new colours. Edit: To clarify, I start a new game, set my race colours, ship colours, etc, and play the game. I then exit out, start a new game, change my ship colours to something different. When playing, all the ship portraits still have the colours that I selected previously, even though they are the new colours in-game. I also had the stuc