deskthority

What do you think of the followings (standard ABS+DCS)

Midnight
Fog
Colors are not final, but just to give you an idea. I'd like midnight to be a little more "charcoal" for example.

I like both of them. The first one looks like the korean set called Graphite which is fairly popular and quite rare. Then again, I tend to like all colour combos which are more subtle with at most one saturated colour.

Any particular reason why the alphas are darker? How would they look if the mods were darker? I like them, just wanted to see what they would be that way.

Edit: [rant] I am growing tired of all these recent attempts (not this) at making as many saturated colours as possible in one set. Nordic layouts aren't offered very often but it seems when they are, they are plagued by what I would consider unicorn vomit colours. [/rant]

damorgue wrote:I like both of them. The first one looks like the korean set called Graphite which is fairly popular and quite rare. Then again, I tend to like all colour combos which are more subtle with at most one saturated colour.

Any particular reason why the alphas are darker? How would they look if the mods were darker?

I'd prefer to make something original and usually alphas are lighter, hence let's make alphas darker But we could invert them of course.

For the record, I like Midnight more. Fog might be better suited on a lighter case perhaps?

i like it

I like fog, but not a fan of DCS.

Presumably the colour zones can be mixed up a bit. A single colour across all function keys for instance, and the arrow keys being the opposite colour to the home/end block.

damorgue wrote:Fog might be better suited on a lighter case perhaps?

Fog definitely needs a beige/light case.

Ooh, i like the midnight color combo

Midnight looks very tempting, but as far as I'm concerned, I expect to be spending too much on the next GMK set to consider another DCS set.

Why not dark legends on light caps? All (....really all?) recent sets came with light legends on dark ground. So if I would like to try something "original", I would consider dark legends for a change.

BimboBB wrote:Why not dark legends on light caps? All (....really all?) recent sets came with light legends on dark ground. So if I would like to try something "original", I would consider dark legends for a change.

fog has both. midnight is too dark for dark legends

One of the reasons I prefer fog. The dark on dark schemes that Topre likes are just the result of dyesub's inability to put bright ink on dark plastic. Not a problem for doubleshot.

Say: how about a doubleshot with clear legends for the tasteless buggers among us (like me) who'd like a good set for backlights?

Muirium wrote:Say: how about a doubleshot with clear legends for the tasteless buggers among us (like me) who'd like a good set for backlights?

YEAH!



polycarbonate legends might be interesting though

matt3o wrote:

BimboBB wrote:Why not dark legends on light caps? All (....really all?) recent sets came with light legends on dark ground. So if I would like to try something "original", I would consider dark legends for a change.

fog has both. midnight is too dark for dark legends

Was thinking about complete dark legends....maybe somethink like that....a reminiscence of the Commodore 5/10 keyboards:

Electric unicorn vomit and a pony please!

(Clear legends, yes!!)

I've given up on the idea of doubleshot for backlighted keyboards. I think you'd have to basically design and make completely new molds for that because the first shot on current molds is too irregular or otherwise not suited for a nice shinethrough effect. And it will be hard to do it well because of the different "islands" (middle parts of legends that have to show the second shot, like on letters like AOBDQPaobdpqe) on different legends.

Like them both, would buy them both.

I like fog better but midnight is nice also.

Both look lovely, with this and beige my wallet will hurt

Halvar wrote:I've given up on the idea of doubleshot for backlighted keyboards. I think you'd have to basically design and make completely new molds for that because the first shot on current molds is too irregular or otherwise not suited for a nice shinethrough effect. And it will be hard to do it well because of the different "islands" (middle parts of legends that have to show the second shot, like on letters like AOBDQPaobdpqe) on different legends.

Yes, you are of course right. Quality backlit caps are the stuff of unicorns, for now. Though with the popularity of Ducky's boards, I can always dream they'll up the stakes and make great caps someday.

Fog is pretty cool
I think i would rather the legends in the OP over Black/Dark legends for it

midnight and fog

abs

Midnight is very nice...

"Fog" looks a lot like R3 alphas and vintage Cherry DS modifiers etc. I've had those on my Filco TKL for a while but recently changed to a different combo. Might have a photo somewhere.

I'd buy both sets, if good price tiers are reached

Here's my Filco TKL Linear R with a mixture of caps:

• R3 SP very dark grey F row
  R3 SP grey number row, symbols etc.
  Cherry DS off-white alphas
  Cherry DS beige and Moogle kit modifiers etc.
  Cherry DS black arrow keys
  SP DS red Esc & Enter

Untitled by nathanscribe, on Flickr


Untitled by nathanscribe, on Flickr

Hopefully it gives some idea of how some of these colours might look, though the camera's not great in low light and any yellowing you see in the photo is not present in real life - the Moogle keys are a slightly different shade to the old Cherry beige, but the picture emphasises it rather negatively.

The R3 grey and Cherry beige look very pleasantly muted together in real life. I reckon the Fog set would work really well.

I like the idea of setting off the arrow cluster in a contrasting color from that of adjacent keys.

I really like the Midnight set, shame about ABS.

That's how you get bright legends on dark plastic. PBT needs dyesub, and dyesub can only darken plastic, not brighten.