I noticed this when I tried to make a diverse scene on the online tester .. could only make a scene full of people with similar darker skin tones. Not that diverse at all.
Would you react the same if the set came only with pale skin and you had to do the customization for darker skin?
If we were all from Nigeria, yes, but since most of HN is US and Europe it would likely go unnoticed. People from black majority areas in the US would also notice; the general point being that everyone is comparing it to whatever their every day experience is.
I will answer with a solution :) Actually, would be really cool to add some code to this, improve the website, with a small UI where you can change: color clothes and skin tone using some presets.
edit: grammar
I agree
All the skin tones are mid-brown, there is nothing darker and nothing lighter, though this would be an easy thing to change when using the library. Interesting how you single out pale skin.
There's a darker woman on the landing page and in the animated section there's a paler figure and couple darker.
As a blue-skinned ginger of Scottish descent, I'm unsure why his observation has to be 'interesting' - if by 'interesting' you mean to imply racist?
Is it racist to mention that "White" people are excluded, especially when diversity seems to be so important to people? I bet that if the skin color palette was more biased towards lighter tones, there would have been some bigger outcry...
Well, since all are "mid-brown" the brown skinned people are somewhat represented.
Paler skin (whites, asians, latinos) is totally missing, so not really interesting how the parent singles it out.