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Please suggest nominees for the Best keycaps in 2015. It can be novelty keys, complete sets, etc. You have to give a short motivation for each suggestion. The keycaps must be released since November 2014.

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Current suggestions (this list is frequently updated):

• SA Retro
• Round 5
• Ivan's Black on Black dyesubs
• GMK Triumph Adler
• Gateron PBT keycaps
• JTK keycaps
• matt3o's Topre PBT spacebars
• Decentkeyboards' IBM keycaps
• GMK HyperFuse set run by [CTRL]ALT

I'd like to nominate SA Retro, it's refreshingly retro yet modern! And those PETSCII legends are the shit!

It's the year when Round 5 really shipped! A reference year. Round 5 must be here.

I was just gonna ask if Round 5 counted as 2015 or some other year in the fog of the past.

Round 5 transcends time.

Definitely Round 5, for the color scheme and thick retro awesomeness of them, but even more for the unsurpassed variety of kits and legends that was offered.

I'd like to nominate Ivan's Black on Black dyesubs: http://deskthority.net/group-buys-f50/p ... t6819.html pictures: http://deskthority.net/post240841.html#p240841
More pictures in the GB thread at Geekhack: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50935.0 , for example this post: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50 ... msg1802258

They shipped in 2015, but the group buy started in 2013.

I'd like them to be nominated because they were the first black on black dyesubs available via group buy and came out really nicely and in high quality in my opinion.

I agree with previous nomination, but I would also like to nominate... GMK Triumph Adler.

Even if shipping was a total mess and plastics were kinda badly mixed, intelli78 put a lot of efforts on it (like, buying a Dario 286 keyboard himself), and it resulted in a unique color in Cherry profile. I'm pretty sure that despite everything that happened for that set, it will still be envied in the future.

I would like also to nominate Gateron keycaps, that I still didn't try but which looks very good. It's not every day that a new manufacturer for dye-sublimated PBT keycaps appears.

Speaking about new manufacturers, I guess JTK should be nominated too.

nobody interested in a Topre PBT spacebar? Gosh... I spent more money on that project...

Wait, not enough Wingnuts? You're a strong contender for two awards yourself! And as nice as the PBT spacebars are, they're up against SA Retro!

like I haven't always put the prizes back to the community

No worries. I'm just whining because you've got several nominations already. And I've got zero.

Whining and winning. One little letter makes all the difference!

Muirium wrote: ↑No worries. I'm just whining because you've got several nominations already. And I've got zero.

Whining and winning. One little letter makes all the difference!

Oh jeez, I'll find something we can nominate Mu for. Hmm let's see...

Now he'll always expect that whining works.

guk wrote: ↑Now he'll always expect that whining works.

No I'm too smart for that guk. What I wrote is true, and a nomination is just that and not more.

I'd like to nominate matt3o's Topre PBT spacebars!

I was really hoping to nominate rsbseb and his key caps but I fear they may not get done any tine soon. Hang in there rsbseb.

ramnes wrote: ↑I'd like to nominate matt3o's Topre PBT spacebars!

Yes having tried three in total I will second that. They are more than worthy. An excellent project.

I would like to nominate decentkeyboards for this. It is impressive:

http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/dec ... it=idollar

ramnes wrote: ↑I'd like to nominate matt3o's Topre PBT spacebars!

\o/

after all I've been through to make it happen not that it deserves an award, but still

Good shout, ramnes! I see matt3o is being modest, as usual. There have been so many great projects this year that it's hard to remember them all!

idollar wrote: ↑I would like to nominate decentkeyboards for this.

Nice call. Decentkeyboards makes some great stuff, and for buckling spring no less! One of those sets is among the many things on my lengthy wishlist. The price is understandable, as they're essentially artisan caps. And that MOQ can't be beat!

seebart wrote: ↑

guk wrote: ↑Now he'll always expect that whining works.

No I'm too smart for that guk. What I wrote is true, and a nomination is just that and not more.

Careful now. The dial goes up higher!

Gateron PBTs must win this.

Round 5 for the world!!!

I nominate GMK HyperFuse set run by [CTRL]ALT, because it's a great colourway, it's the first GMK GB that crossed the 400+ sets boundary, I think the first GMK buy to cover also more "exotic" layouts (75%, 1800 )

My photo is plain shit it doesn't do justice at all to the set

I really love the HyperFuse alphas, but find the modifier colours too muted and lacking contrast. But the alphas are beautiful!

I thought the same about the mods but in real life they look way better. But the alphas are the best, you are right, the white is actually a very very light grey.

+1 for gateron blanks PBT

There are no pics for the Gateron PBT dyesubs yet, let's change that: