Keycap designs
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Round 1
This group buy has been organised by WhiteRice and took only a month from start to shipping. 78 standard kits plus some extras where ordered. Around 9000 keycaps in total.
It was a follow up of some Korean group buy with some improvements like J-shape return.
The color-scheme follows as closely as possible the Dolch-color scheme of Cherry keycaps for the PAC.
Happened in 09-10/2010.
Keycaps where produced by [Signature Plastics].
- A-Z: centered, large font
- all other keys are traditional off-center.
Colors
fg/bg
- WA (White) / GE (Gray)
- WA (White) / GX (Very Dark Gray)
- WA (White) / OAS (Orange)
SoWaRe
Korean attempt to clone the WYSE terminal keyboard style. Due to a mistake, the colors where off and let to a new style. See also Round 4 Retro style.
Round 2
Remaind an interest check right after Round 1 ended. Did never come off.
Round 3
Follow up of Round 1 with more choices, organised by 7bit.
52,000 keycaps.
More info, see Round 3.
Started:12/2010
Ended: 06/2011
Colors
fg/bg
- WA (White) / GE (Gray)
- WA (White) / GX (Very Dark Gray)
- WA (White) / OAS (Orange)
- WA (White) / RA (Red)
- WA (White) / ?? (Blue)
A lot of extras where available.
Rebel Red Alert
Red on white with add-ons in red on grey and white on red. Very efficient group buy with only one base kit and very few extras, run by Uranium from OTD.kr. Sixty did the European distribution. [1] [2]
It consisted of 300 base kits and around 50,000 keycaps.
colors
- RA (Red) / WA (White)
- RA (Red) / ?? (Gray)
- WA (White) / RA (Red)
colors of add on kit
- WFK (White) / RBV (Red)
Return key
- WFK (White) / RA (Red)
RGB group buys
- Red: RR
- Green: VCS
- Blue: BDH and BFP (rounds 1 and 2)
- Yellow: YBP
Color comparision results:
- RR, BFN/BFP, VCS/VCJ for Cherry
- RA, BO, and VCK for Unicomp
Round 4
07/2011-06/2012,
See Round 4.
WYSE supplement keys
In the first group buy of WYSE supplement keys, the following color chices where made.
Although SP keeps records of what they produce, these records had been destroyed after 10 years. However, these are the currently available colors which have perfect or closest match to a NIB sample:
- BBI (Very Dark Blue) for text
- GSX (Light Gray) for alnum keys
- GTD (Dark Gray) for modifier and function keys
- YY (Yellow) for cursor arrows
- GA (Gray) for the case
