Keycaps: UK ISO Cyrillic a thing?
Posted: 15 May 2019, 06:30
I'm slightly doing my head in with the keycap situation again, having never quite "got" the group buy thing, being typically indecisive and too late.
As Model M/F will probably never be a thing, it's looking like MX is The Only Way. There's certainly plenty of choices out there but of course being me I can't find what I want. Because what I want is usually whatever is not available.
So this week I fancy learning Cyrillic of the Russian persuasion. Will I still fancy it next week? Dunno, but it is one of those recurring things.
As such, what would be really cool is something with UK ISO layout and Russian Cyrillic (I understand there are subtle differences in theory, though in practice I dunno, probably not) alternatives. And yeah, if I'm doing a wish-list, nice heavy double-shot sphericals with not-too-pointy edges, and if I'm going to insist on the impossible, nice big centred legends too! Which means the Cyrillic will have to go on the front. Triple-shot, then!
Ahem. Okay, that is very unlikely so let's stick with what is at least feasible, which is ISO UK/Cyrillic. It'll likely be a TKL, not that it matters, the remainder can join the other spares in the keycap silo.
Any ideas where I might look? My scratching around on Amazon and Ebay have drawn a blank so far, though given the increasing tendency of both to stock poor quality imitations of other people's work that may be as well.
I know the purists' answer is "just use blanks" but I am not a touch-typist and never will be, and that would be fun when trying to figure out a completely different alphabet! And whether it's autism or just the fact that I'm easily irritated, the oddity that is the US ISO thing won't work for me either: has to be UK ISO.
I'm also thinking of something to put them on: could use my Filco Blue TKL but I like it's chunky doubleshots if not its switches so it might be a good time for me to try an MX Black version of the same, which someone mentioned some time ago might actually be what I'm looking for; but given KeyboardCo's monopoly in the UK, where would I even find one...?
As Model M/F will probably never be a thing, it's looking like MX is The Only Way. There's certainly plenty of choices out there but of course being me I can't find what I want. Because what I want is usually whatever is not available.
So this week I fancy learning Cyrillic of the Russian persuasion. Will I still fancy it next week? Dunno, but it is one of those recurring things.
As such, what would be really cool is something with UK ISO layout and Russian Cyrillic (I understand there are subtle differences in theory, though in practice I dunno, probably not) alternatives. And yeah, if I'm doing a wish-list, nice heavy double-shot sphericals with not-too-pointy edges, and if I'm going to insist on the impossible, nice big centred legends too! Which means the Cyrillic will have to go on the front. Triple-shot, then!
Ahem. Okay, that is very unlikely so let's stick with what is at least feasible, which is ISO UK/Cyrillic. It'll likely be a TKL, not that it matters, the remainder can join the other spares in the keycap silo.
Any ideas where I might look? My scratching around on Amazon and Ebay have drawn a blank so far, though given the increasing tendency of both to stock poor quality imitations of other people's work that may be as well.
I know the purists' answer is "just use blanks" but I am not a touch-typist and never will be, and that would be fun when trying to figure out a completely different alphabet! And whether it's autism or just the fact that I'm easily irritated, the oddity that is the US ISO thing won't work for me either: has to be UK ISO.
I'm also thinking of something to put them on: could use my Filco Blue TKL but I like it's chunky doubleshots if not its switches so it might be a good time for me to try an MX Black version of the same, which someone mentioned some time ago might actually be what I'm looking for; but given KeyboardCo's monopoly in the UK, where would I even find one...?