Here is a family portrait of all the Cherry Esc keycapss that I have. All these I believe are made by Cherry, with the exception of the 2 Wyse thick and thin keycaps.

Double shots:

Dye sub, Laser, and Pad-printed keycaps:

This is an impressive collection!
Please allow me to add a pad-printed relegendable Esc keycap (from a G80-3700):

Nice! Your pad-printed relegendable Esc looks much better than the lasered relegendable Esc that I have.

Nice collection you have there. Your pics are fantastic as always.

Haha
you don't get that one


Very nice collection indeed
I love the blue

Thanks guys! I took over 50 pictures to get just these few. It was my own fault because after I took the initial batch pictures, I realized, oh wait, I have another different Esc key somewhere... Then I had to retake the family portraits. I think I want to another set from a different angle. Could be used for wallpaper

The blue one from Tarkoon's group buy is very nice. I would not be able to tell it is pad-printed. Even on the macro picture, it is very hard to tell it is pad-painted. It looks almost like dye sub if there wasn't these small smudges on the top of the letters. You can't tell at all from just looking at the key.

Gilgam, which keyboard did you get your Echap keycap from?

Never forget.

Yes, Sixty! I was just looking for this one on OTD. This Esc keycap is probably the rarest of all. What's the history behind it?

http://keyboardporn.com/mx-switch/g80-3 ... mph-adler/

As you can see above, I have not updated my website, but I got some new info since. They are from a 1989/90 286 PC called "TA Dario 286". The keys were originally blue, but all models I have seen have yellowed to this greenish hue since.

You can see the original color on the bottom:

One more, my favorite.

Isn't it the same as the red one in the first post ?

Yes, it is. Just a diffent pose.

litster wrote:Yes, it is. Just a diffent pose.

I like the blurred keycap on the right

I shot it with Canon 5D Mark II and 100mm 2.8 macro lens. The depth of field is really narrow. I had to shoot it at f/4.0 to get all 3 letters on the key in focus because the key is at an angle. It was fun though.

guilleguillaume wrote:I like the blurred keycap on the right

This one?

Keycap porn as we love
a mix of blur and sharp picts

... and the Cherry POM:

heliar wrote:... and the Cherry POM:

That is lasered, isn't it? It is interesting that the color turns to white.

yes they are lasered, when new, the paint is white, when dirty/used, they turn yellow.

Here is my contribution!

and the esc of 4100
and thick dyesub of KBC

there used to be a kind of g80 3000 called red alert right?

imsto wrote:there used to be a kind of g80 3000 called red alert right?

I think it's a custom Korean SP group buy name, with red on white and red on white/grey keycaps.

imsto wrote:there used to be a kind of g80 3000 called red alert right?

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imsto wrote:there used to be a kind of g80 3000 called red alert right?

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he told me he admires me

i admire some of this caps in this thread!

This thread needs some more colour

GSimon wrote:This thread needs some more colour

Those aren't Cherry though

Also, colour is rubbish. Bland and plain is the best!