Diatec offers retro basic keycaps in gray and dark red.
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cryohellinc
Keyboard nerd content? I'm in love.
Moar, please.
Those keycaps look so ugly, love it.
Gomez Addams
I like it too but I don't like that key layout. If it had the big L-shaped return key I would be several of them.
cryohellinc
fantaskarsef
Just imagine such caps for every keyboard you can imagine, enabled to cope with backlit keys...
Would be the finishing touch for an ugly build, like buying every fan / cooler with Noctua's color scheme, those key caps etc. π
cryohellinc
fantaskarsef
Neo Cyrus
I'd also like to see more keyboard nerd stuff as well. I've built a pretty much entirely custom keyboard after starting with a crappy GK61 (optical) kit. I replaced the:
- Gateron optical blue switches with Kailh optical dark blues (click bar like box navy).
- Stabilizers with Everglide Panda gold plated stabs and greased them with 205 G0.
- Horrible ABS keycaps with SA-ish style "doubleshot PBT" shine-through caps which turned out to be ABS so I replaced them again with a real doubleshot PBT pudding set from HyperX.
- Zero foam it had with some random foam I found to make it sound less hollow.
I never intended to do any of that, but when I found out those Kailh clickbar switches I always wanted were now available in optical, I said screw it and built as close to my ideal keyboard as I could. Now if I could just find some real SA/other retro style doubleshot shine-through PBT keycaps, I can complete the dream build... or close, I'd like a Colemak DH set which is super rare to begin with.
But even as it is, I enjoy using it so much I don't think there's any pre-built keyboard any major company will release that will make me want to switch keyboards for the foreseeable future.
Dean_Demon
These are awesome and remind me very much of the Acorn Archimedes that i used quite a lot in late 80's, good memories.
rl66
rl66
AntiSnipe
Nice but they cost $4 more than my entire mechanical keyboard, so gotta say no thanks.
Neo Cyrus
these ones last year, and they were well worth it, because of how much better they make the typing feeling, and they're much more durable than ABS.
I guess what I'm saying is, consider a PBT set if you've never tried one before, I find them much more comfortable than stock ABS caps.
You bought a mechanical keyboard for $28.50?
Roughly $30 is not an outrageous price for keycaps at all, at least for PBT. I boughtFookDat
But does it have an "Any" Key....
AntiSnipe
Yep, and the price has dropped since then to $22. It does not have a proper "any key" but it's really not too shabby. Double shot, back lit key caps, maybe not the most quiet and well lubed, but metal back plate, firm build quality and I've been using it about 3 years now and still works like new. It even came with 5 extra replacement switches that I've not had to use yet. I bought three of them for the price of one shoddy built, sticky-keyed, Logitech membrane board, so 15 spare switches laying around.
cryohellinc
So, has anyone found where you can buy those in Europe?
fantaskarsef
DIATEC CORPORATION
One thing I found out, might be worth googling for Filco as well, they seem to sell keyboards with caps from Diatec as it seems.
And apparently, there's other keyboards with similar caps who do support RGB seethrough for the letters... very nice.
Might buy new keycaps instead of cleaning the old ones already missing some of the coating. Coincidentally, the F key. Pressed for respect alot I tuess.
I guess not yet. Even their homepage doesn't list the item yet...