User blog comment:Luperza/PS2 Sneak Peeks: Interview with Mat Broome/@comment-212.139.43.82-20130221155902/@comment-5765779-20130221184139

We've talked about this before - allowing one to choose their UI colors, so they can make them empire specific. There are some hurdles we have to go over in order to make that happen and make it happen smoothly.

We do think it would be a cool thing to let players customize, so you might see it in the future once we have the resources and time to make it happen. Feel free to suggest it on the forums. (Although...I think it has already been suggested, so I'd search to see if there's a thread already. =P )