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This post was originally posted on r/mk in 2023. I’m manually moving my content here before probably nuking my reddit account. Fuck that little pigboy u/spez.

I have a "rare" layout. ISO French and all-1U bottom right cluster. For years I struggled to get decent keycaps. I could either make do with uniform height keycaps or get them printed. For years, there were very few alternatives. My previous keycap set was printed by MaxKeyboard, but they never felt very good. So when I heard that a small company (Goblin Tech Keys) made custom dyesub keycaps, I decided to give them a shot.

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The positives:

  • Custom PBT dyesub keycaps yay!
  • They're a very small team, and customer support is very personal
  • Printing quality is great
  • I spoke with them about my weird layout, they sent me a template file within minutes.
  • It took them less than a week to print and ship everything. I'm still waiting for my KAT GB from 2021.

The negatives:

  • When I spoke to them about some of the bigger issues, they said they would send replacements but never did.

What's not good but was probably my fault

  • Color accuracy probably would have been better if I used a CMYK colorspace instead of RGB.
  • Geometric backgrounds with lots of straight lines shared between keycaps should be avoided. Background alignment is a mess. Some backgrounds parts were moved or missing because they rework the template files. Legends alignment is fine.

It took 3 working days to get here from Malaysia with DHL (seriously, fuck those thieving cunts at DHL tho).

All in all, I still love my new keycaps :)

Board : XD64

Switches : Boba U4

Keycaps : Dyesub PBT OEM Profile, design by me, printed by Goblin Tech Keys

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[-] flip@lemmy.nbsp.one 2 points 1 year ago

Looks great, thank you for posting all that content! Which tool did you use to create that design?

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Design of those key caps are beautiful. Orange and red just works well.

[-] WFH@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lightning is not perfect but it's more yellow and fuchsia. Still looks amazing :D

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What's the typeface on the keycaps?

[-] WFH@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

FX300 Angular. Basically the WipeOut Pure typeface.

[-] Cmar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Looks fantastic. I need to get myself another mechanical keyboard down the line, had to sell the current one as I was not using it at all (due to a laptop becoming my main rig).

[-] wfh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm currently using my MK on a laptop 😅

I'm addicted to the custom layers I've programmed into it. The French layout is seriously shit when you're a dev.

this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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