Post the ugliest keyboards you've seen!

[__red__]

And don't get me started on the key feel. Like waiting in line at the department of motor vehicles, keytravel is endless and soul-sucking. It's like typing on unrequited love...

This needs to be on stickers and a line of t-shirts.

[snacksthecat]

Wow, haven't seen this thread for months now.

But I pulled this board out today and it looks no where as cool as I remember it. In fact, I gotta nominate it here:



I mean it's got nice components. The keycaps are super unique and it has the coveted creams. But typing on it feels like garbage. I guess it goes to show that a nice keyboard isn't just the sum of its parts.

[samuelcable]

Wow, haven't seen this thread for months now.

But I pulled this board out today and it looks no where as cool as I remember it. In fact, I gotta nominate it here:



I mean it's got nice components. The keycaps are super unique and it has the coveted creams. But typing on it feels like garbage. I guess it goes to show that a nice keyboard isn't just the sum of its parts.

A lot of people think the switches only is only component of a keyboard that matters but that is not true at all.

[digital_matthew]

A shame about the lousy key feel. I rather like the way it looks.

[Wazrach]

What the absolute hell were they thinking?

[Wazrach]

Also, it'd be a shame to miss these out:

[Findecanor]

Those stickers on the MacAlly keyboard look like they are for the video editing program Avid.
Looks are not a priority.

[Wazrach]

Those stickers on the MacAlly keyboard look like they are for the video editing program Avid.
Looks are not a priority.

Clearly they weren't - just look at that hideous transparent, ridged case! D:

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[HC514]

Pink and white colourway, Japanese legends AND an oversized Hello Kitty artisan? Best GB ever!

[Gampela]

Those just look childishly cute, not ugly.

[Elrick]

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My youngest would LOVE that Kitty Keyboard, she's into Pink now more than ever.

[Lanrefni]

By far the ugliest board I've seen,but I do love that the owner uses it,the notches on the keys for the Numpad layer are a very nice touch.

[fohat]

Oh boy, that one is truly hideous. Ouch!

[spoo]

A4TECH KBS-29

maybe im just fond of square keys

[Peter_Cantrope]

Continuing the pink theme. A good old keyboard for blondes. Some of the buttons can talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bez7MqlLzms

And apparently someone has even created a website in an attempt to tell the world this product should not exist:
http://keyboardforblondes.com/

[depletedvespene]

Continuing the pink theme. A good old keyboard for blondes.
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[depletedvespene]

BTW, that's not a BAE — it's a GAE. And no wonder that right Shift is 3U long: it needs to be that big to support the GAE's weight.

[Primuds]

What the absolute hell were they thinking?

The board underneath the stickers looks decent though, Alps?

[joedon]

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My daughter will like it for sure!

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[Dingster]

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I actually think its kinda hot

[AJM]

I quite like it too. And judging by the wrinkles, it's only wrapped with film - so certainly reversible.

[StrangerInTheAlps]

There are no such things as ugly keyboards, only ugly typists. [translated ancient proverb]

Just kidding. My entrant is this:


Not only does it look hiiiideous - clearly yellowed with age, with illegible key printing - but the keys are mushy, the caps are sticky, and the body is both light (lighter than even an Apple alumininininum keyboard) and flimsy.

[depletedvespene]

Not only does it look hiiiideous - clearly yellowed with age, with illegible key printing - but the keys are mushy, the caps are sticky, and the body is both light (lighter than even an Apple alumininininum keyboard) and flimsy.

Finally a keyboard worthy of the Chocolatier keycap set.

[Darkshado]

Also, the manufacturer specs maple syrup as the sole approved lubricant for some reason.

[AJM]

I can't use that. I need an ISO version.

[snacksthecat]

I secretly kind of like this one.

[depletedvespene]

It... it... looks like the makeup case my ex-sister in law carried around with her wherever she went.

[AJM]

Indeed.
The golden spacebar representing a lipstick case or brush handle. I find it quite original and I have seen many many worse color combinations on keyboards.