Granite Round 4 design update

[matt3o]

yeah I gotcha, but I'm afraid we could go on forever so probably we better just keep the original RGB colorway.

[XMIT]

Granite R4, Beta 1

http://imgur.com/a/jpG2E

Please review and comment. Thanks!

Looks good to me! Too bad the Cyrillic kit didn't make it this time around.

Farewell, discretionary budget. It was nice knowing you. $_$

[photekq]

I think I might have to buy it for those Elven Tongue keycaps. Closest I will get to a Welsh layout keyset

[matt3o]

I'm just sorry I had to drop French from the international kit, sorry my merovingian friends, but you have one crazy keyboard layout...

[Muirium]

The Elves win!

[zslane]

Is there a kit there where you can put in the yellow diamond and orange menu icon keys? You have the RGB icon mods, but I am still being denied the "other" bottom-row icon modifier keys.

[Muirium]

Someday we must see a second Granite colourway. I'm thinking darker mods. Granite is a fantastic look, but if it has one weakness (besides everything inherent in DSA) it is the pale mods. They're nice, but I can imagine something richer. Still dyesub, but with more emphasis on the contrast between alphas and mods, rather than legends.

[matt3o]

I agree the world had enough Granite. Let's make this R4 and move on. I'd like to experiment with a Graphite set next time

[chanlol]

I think more colorful kits will be perfect.

[matt3o]

How do you feel about this:



The RGB could be something like this, but I have to check on pricing first.

[andrewjoy]

Would there be any way to order outside of MD for us Euro folks ?

[photekq]

I'm really not sure how this would look, and I'm not sure if it would take well to dyesubbing, but how do you think it would look if the sublegends were a dark foresty green rather than red? I was just thinking it might suit the elvish theme a little better

[matt3o]

SP is not that good at dysubbing green (or blue... or anything that is not red...)

[b4d_tR1p]

it will be mine !

[chzel]

if you don't know what the last two icons are (on the 1u cluster), you can't be my friend

The top one is from Robocop, it's the OCP logo, but I don't recognize the bottom....
So...half-friends?

[matt3o]

nakatomi trading corp.

[HzFaq]

Damn, I knew I'd forgotten to watch something this Christmas...

[rddm]

@matt3o i'm not sure but I think the international kit didn't allow ISO-PT, that culd be nice and is only just a few keys.

[matt3o]

@matt3o i'm not sure but I think the international kit didn't allow ISO-PT, that culd be nice and is only just a few keys.

what are we missing?

[matt3o]

Granite R4 beta 2

http://imgur.com/a/sTbuN

last chance

[maxmalkav]

What about US Intl? I made the transition to ANSI US Intl and now I'm a truly believer

[matt3o]

What about US Intl? I made the transition to ANSI US Intl and now I'm a truly believer

what would be the difference?

[maxmalkav]

You rely on AltGr for many special characters that are mapped over a regular US ANSI layout (ie N and Ñ are "tied" together in the same key). Here you have an example of ANSI US Intl from IvanIvanovich's GB on GH.
http://i.imgur.com/dGY408D.png
With this layout I have no problems alternating between English, Spanish and Italian and I miss very few special characters from ES layout.

[zslane]

The RGB(YO) kit would be cool, as long as it had an icon version...

[f1xedgear]

The RGB(YO) kit would be cool, as long as it had an icon version...

It does:

[Madhias]

Nice! I think I grab a modifier package, and this secondary legends set. Maybe a RGB set too. Oh my.

[facetsesame]

Is the UK kit deliberately missing the "2 key so that the International kit is required too?

Spoiler:

The Common kit covers the |\, the Modifier kits the 1.25u shift and then the ISO enter completes everything else for UK.
Nice inclusion of the $4€ key by the way, that often seems to be neglected.


Mono Legend doesn't include _ (underscore), I think this is only key missing from the 1u shifted functions on US ANSI. A shame to miss it perhaps, but maybe not a huge problem.

Spoiler:

Arguably | (pipe) is missing too as it's included as 1u in the Common kit, but perhaps that would be a language option?

Other than these, all looks incredible! Looking forward to seeing how the Sindarin kit turns out!

[matt3o]

Is the UK kit deliberately missing the "2 key so that the International kit is required too?

no that would be an error, sorry.

Everything else missing in the monolegend is pretty superfluous methinks

[zslane]

Superfluous? Or conspicuously missing? I'm not sure how one goes about deciding that it is superfluous to provide both | and \ as monolegends, but not superfluous to provide both + and = as monolegends.

[matt3o]

I seem to recall that we had to keep the number of 1u under a certain number otherwise we incur in additional setup fees