Your name, dressed, in every list
If you bought a name colour in the Trident Exchange, you probably saw it exactly twice: on your own profile and on the plate above your aircraft. Everywhere else your name looked like everybody else's. The roster, the lobby, chat, the live feed, the leaderboard and the station list never asked what you were wearing. We fixed that first, and then we added two things to buy.
What's new in the Exchange
The Name tab has two new groups.
Nameplates are a small pill behind your name: runway lights, a contrail, a radar sweep, a sunset, a night sky, a harbour, carbon, and a slow aurora. They cost 10 to 20 tridents.
Name lettering changes the letters themselves: a stencil face, a departures-board LCD, a METAR-style monospace, and three effects, which are a shimmer, a two-tone gradient and a soft glow. They cost 10 to 25 tridents.
All three name slots stack. Colour, lettering and nameplate can be worn together, and the preview under the craft on the Name tab shows your name the way lists will print it, including whatever you are hovering over.
Where it shows
Your profile header, the online roster and the lobby, chat on both desktop and phone, the live feed and its panel, the leaderboard, and the owner line on the station list. The plate above your aircraft still shows only the colour for now. It is drawn on a canvas, and lettering there needs its own work.
A few rules we kept
Nothing here imitates what you earn. A nameplate never carries a crest, a star or a metal ring in a tier colour, because those belong to ranks.
Lists stay readable. In long lists the effects hold still and only move when you hover; on your profile they play. If your system asks for reduced motion, nothing moves anywhere. Text on a nameplate always gets a dark shadow, so any colour you pick stays legible on any pill.
Other people see a new purchase within a few minutes. You see your own the moment you equip it.
The fonts for the three lettering styles only load when someone on your screen is wearing one, so a page full of plain names doesn't pay for them.
Open the Trident Exchange to try them on. If you have no tridents yet, the ranks page explains how they are earned.