I tried on the actual player icon that is shown in the inbox, tactic icon team info panel or something to that effect, but doesn't work unfortunately. It might work on this panel though so i'll give it a go tomorrow.
Tried all the style workarounds, only thing i can think of is hardcoding the font colour in a separate font file and linking the name to that.
I know @GIMN got it working in his light skins, but i looked through and couldn't get it working