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Final vote!
Please send your nominations for Best Keycap or Keycaps Set. What's the most colorful, original, nostalgic, keycap designed this year? This includes a full set, an update kit a single key or an artisan creation.

You can change your vote at any time up until 2018-12-03 19:00:00. Contrary to previous DTA editions, this is the final vote, there is no "vote for nominee" phase.

The nominees are

XDA Canvas



MiTo XDA Canvas, simple typography and the pastel mods

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GMK Serika



because it's yellow...

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SA Oblivion



Looks too good and the git mods are bliss

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GMK Olivia



GMK Olivia a subtle keyset with rose gold accents

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GMK Laser



because of... laser


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Cherry original doubleshots



the most sincere and least pretentious keycaps ever.

I am pleased to see I am far from being alone in my fondness for Cherry original doubleshots

The Cherry original doubleshots are most popular which does not suprise me.

I am a sucker for the original Cherries, but I think that XDA Canvas is the most unique, aesthetic and feel-wise.

3 Cherry sets but expensive ? 1 copy of Round5 ? XDA ?

yup, OG Cherry for the win !

how is it that you are not allowed to nominate keysts that have yet to be manufactured yet everyone likes OG which in a forum that is dedicated to vintage stuff is not suprising but at the same time just seems to go against the rule of being made in 2018

Myoth wrote: ↑3 Cherry sets but expensive ? 1 copy of Round5 ? XDA ?

yup, OG Cherry for the win !

Already PM'd matt3o about the "Copy of Round5" - SA Oblivion's true colorway is actually this, while the render shown above is using a mixture of optional kits that were available in the same GB

Oblotzky wrote: ↑

Myoth wrote: ↑3 Cherry sets but expensive ? 1 copy of Round5 ? XDA ?

yup, OG Cherry for the win !

Already PM'd matt3o about the "Copy of Round5" - SA Oblivion's true colorway is actually this, while the render shown above is using a mixture of optional kits that were available in the same GB

Fair enough, and I agree that the choice of picture wasn't really appropriate in this case

Anakey wrote: ↑how is it that you are not allowed to nominate keysts that have yet to be manufactured yet everyone likes OG which in a forum that is dedicated to vintage stuff is not suprising but at the same time just seems to go against the rule of being made in 2018

I didn't get that nomination either. It was definitely not a keyset made in 2018...

Anakey wrote: ↑how is it that you are not allowed to nominate keysts that have yet to be manufactured yet everyone likes OG which in a forum that is dedicated to vintage stuff is not suprising but at the same time just seems to go against the rule of being made in 2018

take it as: a keycap/keycap set you like to use in 2018.

matt3o wrote: ↑

Anakey wrote: ↑how is it that you are not allowed to nominate keysts that have yet to be manufactured yet everyone likes OG which in a forum that is dedicated to vintage stuff is not suprising but at the same time just seems to go against the rule of being made in 2018

take it as: a keycap/keycap set you like to use in 2018.

Maybe you should of said that from the start and then chosen the good keysets not the weird stuff like serika and xda canvas?

If it states: "Please send your nominations for Best Keycap or Keycaps Set. What's the most colorful, original, nostalgic, keycap designed this year? This includes a full set, an update kit a single key or an artisan creation."

Then those options all make sense except the OG doubleshots. Why are they even an option

Nobody complained in the nomination phase. I liked the idea. People are voting it. I'd say God's in his heaven, all's right with the world.

I rather like the easy-going way DT awards are handled this year

Plus, as I said in my nomination of Cherry original doubleshots,

kbdfr wrote: ↑[…] They are your perfect and eternal companion, not a short-lived affair

And like in any life partnership, you don’t just decide on it once and then somehow just stick to it,
but rather constantly endorse it and time after time condone it and anew subscribe to it,
condescendingly rejecting all those would-be new partners trying to attract your attention.
True love is always new

Gonna go with the OG's. Simply excellent caps that have stood the test of time very well!

kbdfr wrote: ↑I rather like the easy-going way DT awards are handled this year

Plus, as I said in my nomination of Cherry original doubleshots,

kbdfr wrote: ↑[…] They are your perfect and eternal companion, not a short-lived affair

And like in any life partnership, you don’t just decide on it once and then somehow just stick to it,
but rather constantly endorse it and time after time condone it and anew subscribe to it,
condescendingly rejecting all those would-be new partners trying to attract your attention.
True love is always new

So doesn't that mean that for some, there'd be no reason to have this category at all year to year, because OG Cherry would win every year?

chuckdee wrote: ↑

kbdfr wrote: ↑I rather like the easy-going way DT awards are handled this year

Plus, as I said in my nomination of Cherry original doubleshots,

kbdfr wrote: ↑[…] They are your perfect and eternal companion, not a short-lived affair

And like in any life partnership, you don’t just decide on it once and then somehow just stick to it,
but rather constantly endorse it and time after time condone it and anew subscribe to it,
condescendingly rejecting all those would-be new partners trying to attract your attention.
True love is always new

So doesn't that mean that for some, there'd be no reason to have this category at all year to year, because OG Cherry would win every year?

We can switch it up next year and nominate OG Cherry dyesub instead

assuming there will be a next year, they can't win two times in a row. didn't we removed some nominations for that reason?

matt3o wrote: ↑assuming there will be a next year, they can't win two times in a row. didn't we removed some nominations for that reason?

Dyesubs =/= doubleshots

So does some rando at Cherry who happens to be into artisans just get to claim the wingnut?

anything still could happen

I am by no means surprised that OG doubleshots are in first place but if I could choose a second place, I would pick SA Oblivion.

It's somewhat surprising to even see gmk laser on here, I guess thats from the reddit people who only use dt for the awards

don't play snob now

Meanwhile:
I love you guys

kbdfr wrote: ↑I love you guys

Well, you DID put a persuasive argument for someone to discard his "No Award" nomination...

But next year, IBM Model F/M keycaps have to win. After all, which other keycaps are, by design, impervious to profile problems?

depletedvespene wrote: ↑

kbdfr wrote: ↑I love you guys

Well, you DID put a persuasive argument for someone to discard his "No Award" nomination...

But next year, IBM Model F/M keycaps have to win. After all, which other keycaps are, by design, impervious to profile problems?

While that is a good design, you are limited to 2 or 3 clicky switches whereas og cherry can be used on hundreds to thousands of boards of any mx mount you want. I wish more designs utilized a curved plate like that

Also to answer your question : r3 sa and dsa

samuelcable wrote: ↑While that is a good design, you are limited to 2 or 3 clicky switches whereas og cherry can be used on hundreds to thousands of boards of any mx mount you want. I wish more designs utilized a curved plate like that

In other words, you have a large selection of differently linear switches with MX…

Okay, a few rubber domes as well.

samuelcable wrote: ↑It's somewhat surprising to even see gmk laser on here, I guess thats from the reddit people who only use dt for the awards

No, actually. I quite like it, and I frequent here quite a bit. And I nominated it



Combined the Gaijin alphas with Miami Knight's mods.

Voted for the old farts’ option. (For all of us old farts, not just Mr. Choc.) I’m annoyed Cherry’s dyesubs aren’t in the mix (they really are nicer, I find) but there’s something pleasingly self righteous about nominating the working man’s caps over the elite. And I do honestly prefer their look to the other sets nominated here.

Voting for the Canvas option, because at least they're trying to do something interesting with regards to shape, color, and fonts.