New keycaps from KBDMania

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Taeyoung

23 Nov 2011, 10:28

I've finally got these two types of keycaps :-)

Graphite : 88keys ( 2 capslocks )
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Green and Cream Cheese : 88keys ( 2 capslocks )
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zoidbergslo

23 Nov 2011, 11:59

green on white looks great

cactux

23 Nov 2011, 12:04

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Topre Enthusiast

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.

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7bit

23 Nov 2011, 17:41

Nobody sees the new font design.

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

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Minskleip

23 Nov 2011, 18:05

New arrows?

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tsangan

23 Nov 2011, 18:25

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

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

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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
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tsangan

23 Nov 2011, 19:15

Wonder if this was commissioned to SP also

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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.
:roll:

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tsangan

23 Nov 2011, 19:28

Good eye 7bit ;D

SP gets love from everyone around the world haha

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?
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tsangan

23 Nov 2011, 19:58

kaiserreich wrote:You can type with your keyboard upside down?
that made me laugh hahahhaa :lol:

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

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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?

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zoidbergslo

23 Nov 2011, 20:31

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

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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.
:roll:
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.

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Taeyoung

24 Nov 2011, 11:43

Here are winkey-less option sets. :-)
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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 :mrgreen:

\krstf

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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.


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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.

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