Somewhere farther down another commenter asked if I would consider it race neutral if it was dark magenta.
My response was yeah sure.
If it is not a real skin tone it is neutral and i would feel just as attached to it and feel it is raceless equally as bright yellow. I don't feel anymore or less represented either.
Dark magenta would probably have the same problem that floating features have, which is it distracts from the content (and would probably be hard to read compared to actual skin tones).
The situation was, people chose yellow as the default, and that excluded some people. So, if we cared about being polite and fixing it for those people, and if our options were to either change to some hideous magenta that couldn’t be misinterpreted as representing a real skin tone vs just offering more skin tones, I think we made the right choice.
The choice is not dark magenta or bright yellow or bust though. A large spectrum of colors exist, and if we really wanted to not offend anyone, we could have chosen blue or green or pink or orange or any other color that couldn't possibly be a skin color (untill we meet easily-offended aliens of course).
My response was yeah sure.
If it is not a real skin tone it is neutral and i would feel just as attached to it and feel it is raceless equally as bright yellow. I don't feel anymore or less represented either.
*edited for spelling