Ahh got it. Thanks for taking a look!
So to describe how I use focus a little in general, I don’t usually stare at Wolfery. I’m often getting up to do something else around my home for a few minutes, spin in my chair to poke at something else, etcetera. And then I glance over and with the focus colors I can quickly see if my self-focus is the last color or if there’s someone else, and that’s been great! Even if I just have it in another window, I usually just glance for colors to see if I need to read anything new, as I avoid using notifications.
So with that in mind, I’d have two concerns with the above. The first is that I’m not sure I could keep using focus in the same way if I see the outgoing color being the other character’s focus color. Maybe with balls I could get used to the different texture and recognize that. The second concern would be how it handles multiple recipients. What would it do if I message two people in a group chat thing that I both have focused with different colors? That’s why my mind originally went to adding colored dots or something by the ‘To’ line, so it’s enough at a quick skim to know which messages are going where but it still keeps the big block of self-focus so I can follow the flow of things like I do now.