"preference of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone's personal preference or choice regarding something. For example, "My preference of flavor ice cream is chocolate."
Furthermore the aesthetic preference of the shapes vary: some prefer curved harmonic shapes while others prefer edgy abstract patterns.
"It's not a preference of mine," he said.
7.44pm: No news from Chess OK as to the sexual preference of pizza.
It's my preference, it's not the preference of the club, because otherwise they have that structure".
Given the no-vibrato, pumping preference of period instrument performances, this won't have suited all tastes.
I can understand the preference of Blackwell in the shortened game, but Gareth Batty?
I went for shale, which happens to be the preference of Glass Explorers in San Francisco.
How does this offbeat preference of his merit a book-length manifesto?
In those three polls he scored a first preference of only 39 or 37 points.
"The preference of the F.C.C. and the F.T.C was to take a more regulatory approach".
He noted, however, the "revealed preference of society is for intervention".
