What about changing the colors of the HUD? Giving the player customization options as far as the color, or adding a drop shadow to certain things?
TL;DRHUD color customization isn't done and is lower priority than legibility and working maps and displays, partly because extra variables complicate testing and earlier color changes caused iteration problems, so a cleverer solution is needed.
So, well, right now, I think we have a decent first pass on everything. First pass. The things that we're missing are basically the kiosks where you can actually rent ships, the REC front end where you can rent ships that way, the FPS map, so that being a 3D map versus the map that's currently in there. And then from there we have a laundry list of improvements that we want to do. And I view those improvements as higher priority. I want to make sure that the HUD is legible. I want to make sure that the HUD is... that star maps work in the way that we want them to work. The MFDs are actually working the way that we want them to work.
From a troubleshooting standpoint, while you're developing, you also don't want to necessarily introduce a bunch of variables that your testing community can then start messing around with. Because if they say, like the question before, the HUD disappeared or whatnot, if we introduce the ability to change the color or change the way it displays now, now we don't know where the source of that issue is.
Fun fact is that the original implementation of this, actually, that was all exposed for the designers in DataForge. They could change it at runtime even, actually. And I think for a while, even in one of the really, really early releases of Arena Commander, like pre-1.0 type stuff, they were changing the colors, but exactly to your point, it just became a problem of constantly iterating against the possible color that the guy has. So it's going to have to be a more clever solution than just colors.
The short answer is that it's not done. We're still working on it.