New keycaps from KBDMania

Taeyoung · 23 Nov 2011, 10:28

I've finally got these two types of keycaps

Graphite : 88keys ( 2 capslocks )

Green and Cream Cheese : 88keys ( 2 capslocks )

zoidbergslo · 23 Nov 2011, 11:59

green on white looks great

cactux · 23 Nov 2011, 12:04

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002 · 23 Nov 2011, 12:59

The green and white looks fantastic!
By god though, you *must* fix the skewiff Cherry logo as it's making my OCD flare up.

Findecanor · 23 Nov 2011, 15:03

I love that green and white, but I think that it looks best on a white keyboard.

rich0d · 23 Nov 2011, 16:13

the gray\darker gray set looks awesome.

7bit · 23 Nov 2011, 17:41

Nobody sees the new font design.

I wonder if this is a secret SP font, or something new ...

Minskleip · 23 Nov 2011, 18:05

New arrows?

tsangan · 23 Nov 2011, 18:25

Taeyoung you really need to start a group buy here for the group buy in KBDMania/OTD

They look amazing, both those sets, I remember David from iomania posting pictures of these a few months back

litster · 23 Nov 2011, 18:36

interesting, 2 different Windows keys. Also, Print Screen and Pause has front letters. Are the front letters double shot too?

kaiserreich · 23 Nov 2011, 19:06

David started a group buy over at kbdmania or something like that.
Based on my trusty google translator, fonts are graphics, setup fee $10 per key.

I like the details they give in the korean group buys. Everything is broken down and you know what you pay for.

There was an order thread but I don't know where that went, this is the interest check thread I think.
http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/2971757

They even organized a sorting party for the keycaps
http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/index.php?mi ... rl=3201215

tsangan · 23 Nov 2011, 19:15

Wonder if this was commissioned to SP also

7bit · 23 Nov 2011, 19:23

litster wrote:interesting, 2 different Windows keys. Also, Print Screen and Pause has front letters. Are the front letters double shot too?

No, they are printed.

tsangan wrote:Wonder if this was commissioned to SP also

These are from SP.

Look at the line of the Return arrow.

tsangan · 23 Nov 2011, 19:28

Good eye 7bit ;D

SP gets love from everyone around the world haha

7bit · 23 Nov 2011, 19:38

tsangan wrote:Good eye 7bit ;D

SP gets love from everyone around the world haha

I followed the link and saw that they used custom legends and had only to pay $10 per legend instead of $25. Seems the price for these gets down quite a bit when there are more of them.

So a different font is not so much out of reach as I've thought.

tsangan · 23 Nov 2011, 19:48

85 custom legends lol

kaiserreich · 23 Nov 2011, 19:49

How many custom legends are there in the GB4?

tsangan · 23 Nov 2011, 19:51

7Bit, If we were to use the same custom legends as them would we have to pay the legend fee again? A little confused as to how SP works their pricing.

Daemon Raccoon · 23 Nov 2011, 19:53

I'd buy one of those graphite sets. If only SP didn't have those sprue marks on the front of their keys.

kaiserreich · 23 Nov 2011, 19:55

You can type with your keyboard upside down?

tsangan · 23 Nov 2011, 19:58

kaiserreich wrote:You can type with your keyboard upside down?

that made me laugh hahahhaa

kaiserreich · 23 Nov 2011, 20:03

My mistake.
SP does indeed have the sprue marks at the front of the caps.
I got them mixed up with the the other type of keycaps

My Topre Lavender WASD has a sprue mark inside the keycap, that should fit your requirements

7bit · 23 Nov 2011, 20:08

kaiserreich wrote:How many custom legends are there in the GB4?

Only a few.
There are:
GLIDER, TUX, GNOME, BSD,COMMODORE, LOTUS,
COMMAND, DTESC, HANDBAG, BACKSPACE,
ARROWUP,ARROWDOWN, ARROWRET,MARROWUP,MARROWDN,
CARROWS (4 keys), AWESOME,KBDRUNNER, KEYBOARD,
PIRATEFLAG, TAPEDRIVE,L OD, VIM

25.

tsangan wrote:7Bit, If we were to use the same custom legends as them would we have to pay the legend fee again? A little confused as to how SP works their pricing.

No, only once. Except it will be placed on a new key (like 1.5 units instead of 1.25 units).

The only question is, will KBDMania allow us to use their work?

zoidbergslo · 23 Nov 2011, 20:31

retro with this exact legend (+ maybe nonalternating function row) <3

Taeyoung · 24 Nov 2011, 09:57

7bit wrote:
litster wrote:interesting, 2 different Windows keys. Also, Print Screen and Pause has front letters. Are the front letters double shot too?
No, they are printed.
tsangan wrote:Wonder if this was commissioned to SP also
These are from SP.

Look at the line of the Return arrow.

Wow, you have amazing insight about keycaps.

Those were from SP and the front letters are printed other than double shot.
It cost $10 per legend.

Taeyoung · 24 Nov 2011, 11:43

Here are winkey-less option sets.

harrison · 24 Nov 2011, 18:31

I really like the legend placement and sizing on those keys, it looks classy and clean. The colouring on the dark grey/navy (hard to tell) reminds me of an IBM board I used to have.

krstf · 24 Nov 2011, 18:35

Totally awesome! Green ones remind me of german police cars

\krstf

7bit · 24 Nov 2011, 18:40

harrison wrote:I really like the legend placement and sizing on those keys, it looks classy and clean. The colouring on the dark grey/navy (hard to tell) reminds me of an IBM board I used to have.

Does not look that clean to me!

top-left, bottom-left, buttom-right.

The designer obviously did not know what he wanted.

The design should be more consitent:
Return and Shift right have the labels right (an attempt to have some symmetry?), but right Alt and Control are at the left.
The 6 cursor movement keys could be considered function key and should be bottom-left.

Tab has the symbols to the right, shift to the left ....

But nice font and color-scheme.

heliar · 24 Nov 2011, 22:27

the green looks awsome.