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Hard to know this yet, considering that dev diaries haven't even started.
 
My guess is each Species Archetype (Phenotype if you prefer but we already discovered that causes confusion) has its own style of ships, possibly with some variation depending on the Aesthetic you chose to go along with it.
 
No.

We know after the clarifications thread there are 6 styles for alien ships and buildings.So we are getting lots of samey stuff flying around the map.
I think he was referring to how one tells units apart within those individual games.

And that in general is color combinations.

Or put another way, same way one tells two hiver factions apart in Sword of the Stars. Or two zerg players in Starcraft. Or two people both using the ottomans in Age of Empires.
 
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