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1. What did you do?
Boarded a space platform while my character is colored purple (or any color other than the default color).

2. What happened?
An orange colored 'icon' representing my character appears on the space platform.

3. What did you expect to happen instead?
A purple 'icon' representing my player appears on the space platform.

4. Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
Always.

Notes: ^ Character icon on space station. ^ Customized player color. ^ Another screenshot of the customized player color.

Thanks for the report however this is correct. This is the icon for character and not the actual character entity. You can also see it in Factoriopedia here and there.

Thanks for letting me (us) know!

This confused me as well, I'm curious what it shows in multilayer if multiple people are on the platform, showing the colour in this case would be helpful.