Aloft was a name plate addon that allowed you to change the default appearance of hostile & friendly name plates.

I'd very much like to find an alternative addon with similar functions as Aloft is currently, and most likely indefinitely, incompatible.

Example:

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Oh I found one.  Had to dig pretty deep into the interwebs but here it is if anyone is interetsed besides me.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10864-AloftBeta.html

BLESS YOU! I logged in for 1st time and made 1st post just to tell you that. Ofc cheers for the authors and plz keep the project going, i love this addon

+1 bless u!

thank you for finding it.