And yeah, people want dark skins because of that black-into-red problem I think.
Yeah dark skins aren't too easy to work with, especially when some text colors can't be changed. I've been working on a dark skin as well and have had to go with a bit of trickery to get it happening.
Thankfully the black to red thing only happens with images. If you use colors they work properly (which is a bit weird).
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