this is old news by now because i've said it more than a few times in the rp confessions thread but.

i am a huge fan of light skins. this is in part because it's the only thing i can consistently skin well with color coordination and such (which may be related to the next two points), in part because my brightness settings are usually set to the minimum possible on my phone or when i'm unplugged on my laptop (so there's a lot of dark skins that i then just cannot see without upping my brightness), and in part because of my graphics card (since it apparently just does not like dark skins since when i'm on my brother's laptop, i tend to actually prefer darker skins since his graphics card makes the light skins too bright).

tbeh i think about half of it is personal preference and half of it is software constraints. i know i personally try to skin so that we have both a dark and a light version available (or at least something with a dark background but a lighter wrapper so it's less light-on-light), but not all coders do it (and i personally struggle sometimes because it's a pain to coordinate dark colors for me) so. yeah.