i think you already can change the colors, can't you?
Yes WE can change the color ourselves...... but 9 times out of 10 folk NEVER do!.... So your at a big function and a lot of people are there talking.... and there is always at least 2 or 3 people there who are talking and emoting.... but I can't keep up with all the chatting looking just at the screen so I read it out of my journal...... and if those 2 or 3 out of 10 people haven't changed their emote color I can't read what the heck they emoted..... as it doesn't show up in the journal....... it's WAY too close to the background color of the 2d journal to see.... so in all the years I've actually taken to privately partying these people and begging them to change the color of their emote..... heck half of them have NO Clue that they can change it..... and have even less of a clue that it can't be seen in the journal....
But I think it would be FAR easier on me and everyone else at meetings of this nature if the actual default didn't HAVE to be manually changed by the player to be seen...... don't you think that it should actually be something that is legible in the first place???????