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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 compar
by mattnewton 5y ago
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.
- jxding 5y agoThe 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).
- HKH2 5y agoUsually a generic happy face is yellow. I don't think it has anything at all to do with race. It makes sense that that's why they made the other emoticons yellow.