Typeface for keyboard

[Madhias]

I think the font should not be bold or too thick. It doesn't look as nice as a regular or thin type weight. I compared some IBM caps a while ago, and the ones which are lighter are much better. I would have fear that when the font is bold it's even more fat due to production reasons. The fattest Enter is i think a bad lasered one maybe.

[matt3o]

I agree the slim/high-contrast ones are the best

[wes1099]

So you are designing a new set of key caps? Are they going to be dsa like the granites?

[matt3o]

yes, I'm designing a new keycaps set. It has never been done before. I'm not in liberty to speak to right now but it will be huge

[Muirium]

But dyesub, right?

If we're designing a whole clean slate of doubleshot legends here, I want to know!

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Choice of font is partially dependent on the legend method. Are you aiming for doubleshot and if so, can the subtleties of the typeface be accurately reproduced using doubleshot tooling?

[Muirium]

Yup. We should know the printing method, to be able to advise well! I'm perfectly fine with dyesub (in fact, for sharpness it's supreme) but doubleshots have all the colour magic, along with glyph design considerations.

[DanielT]

I think is related to this http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/th ... t8890.html so I guess PBT dye sub tall spherical, the last taboo

[Daniel Beardsmore]

D'oh, I was hoping for something like Cherry profile cylindrical. OEM profile seems unnecessarily tall.

[Muirium]

Yeah, I thought he was referring to that, DanielT, but then how is this so secret when he's already spilled most the beans! All we don't know is who's doing it. Which matters a lot less than the final quality of their work.

Meanwhile, Cherry profile spherical is an experiment I want to see…

[matt3o]

I hope to be able to give you more info next week

[bazh]

Yeah, I thought he was referring to that, DanielT, but then how is this so secret when he's already spilled most the beans! All we don't know is who's doing it. Which matters a lot less than the final quality of their work.

Meanwhile, Cherry profile spherical is an experiment I want to see…

didn't most of us have some with the Cherry numpad?

my curiousity is on the Cherry high profile spherical, GMK listed they had 8mm and 12mm ones but seems like only in uniform profile

[Muirium]

Oh yeah! I still have a set of these. Must compare them side by side to DSA actually…



I don't know much about GMK, but I imagine their "deep catalogue" is a bit like ordering SS profile from SP! They might just about remember they even manufacture the things.