I just spoke with my anodizer. The vibrant colors that we all would want will have to be produced in a soft-coat anodize as I suspected but I received good news able their resistance to fading. I'm confident that I can provide a product with similar (excellent) fade resistance to the black products that I currently provide.
I have him looking into color-matches to get "close to" the following colors:
Gold / Amber
Cherry Bomb Red
Hero Blue
Who's interested if I can make this happen?