Double shot replacements ROUND TWO!

[Azuremen]

Ultramarine for the darker keys, and a shade lighter for the character keys. Legends would be white.

As an Eldar 40k player, I must object. Damn Smurfs.

That aside, I'd like to see Black keys with dark Grey or Black legends.

That, or Black and White keys. Would work nicely with my Rosewill board.

I'm also interested in possibly getting different colored keys for T, F, B, E, and the A key for StarCraft II (Protoss stuff), along with 1, 3, and 5.

Also, any idea how much a full 104 key set would cost? I'm new around here and thus not fully aware of what to expect this to cost.

[Fwiffo]

The last set was $49 per set. Additional special keys and funky options would increase that.

[2084]

As an Eldar 40k player, I must object. Damn Smurfs.

Hah I was an Eldar and then Protoss player too, and when I talk about SC stuff I accidently keep calling Terrans -> Spacemarines and Protoss -> Eldar.

And I'll agree with you on the keys too, grey with black characters look great, see HHP2

[Twitchy]

OK, I'll volunteer a color scheme. The layout would be the same as the Dolch set, but instead of black and gray, it would be vivd blue. Ultramarine for the darker keys, and a shade lighter for the character keys. Legends would be white.

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I am partially colour blind so forgive me that the colours are off but I thought I'd have a go at an "artist's impression" based on WhiteRice's photo.

[RoboKrikit]

I think that would look decent with a white enclosure.  I'm betting most of the buyers here will have black keyboards, though.

[firestorm]

I'm not interested in anything too flashy myself.  To be honest, I'd be happy with all black keys to simply replacing these cheap stockers (they're getting very shiny.)  It doesn't appear that too many others want the stock look though, even if it had the large font.

The look of the dolch set is really growing on me.  I didn't think I'd like the vintage look all that much.  I saw that thread spawn, but as more of a lurker, I missed the important parts and missed out on ordering.

For something more flashy, I could probably go for something that incorporated some vintage blue and red.  I'm thinking of colors that were more common on equipment, like ATM machines.  Here's a good example from a recent thread here:
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=12561&highlight=keypad

I have an image of a much deeper red in my mind, but have no clue where it is coming from.

I've "re-colored" automobiles for automotive forums in the past.  If I can find the time to knock off the rust and remember how to do it, I may try to build some concept images.

[WhiteRice]

[didjamatic]

If it's in January, I'm interested in a set.

I want thick keycaps, sorta like this

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WHAT IS THAT, THE HEAD OF A SLEDGEHAMMER?!?!?!  
I'd Love a set of caps that thick!

[Fwiffo]

If anybody wants to drop the 60 grand to pay for the retooling costs for thicker keys, I'll talk to signature about it.

[armenws]

me too

[bakageta]

Yet another lurker here... Looks like as good of a place as any to make my first post... Personally, I'd rather have all the keys the same color, and then a booster pack for an alternate color for modifier keys if people want them... I just don't care for these two-tone setups.

If somebody wants a very bright colour scheme combination you always can think in Green Keys like on this Topre or maybe Yellow too:

Lavender like the Filco set or Red are too common I think. Anyway what about Blue and not Lavender or we just can think about Bright Pink LOL

here i saw some nice ideas for colours: http://www.synctronics.com/case_studies.html

PD: I'm new at GEEKHACK and since I started reading here I'm only thinking on getting new keycaps and keyboards -.- (Where can ? say welcome to all? Is there an exclusive thread or something like that?)

I'd totally be in for a bright pink set... I wouldn't mind seeing a black key, with pink, bright green, or bright blue lettering.

Not interested. If I can't get Swedish legends, then that would be no different to me from having a "otaku" keyboard without legends.
... And I have already got a real Dolch.

I might be interested in coloured "otaku"/legendless keycaps though.

This might be something to consider... Depending on the color, I'd certainly be interested.

[WhiteRice]

Wow a poring. Whatever happen to ragnarok online?

[bakageta]

*shrugs* I'm assuming it's still around, in some form or another. I haven't played it in a very long time.

[Kairxa]

Still, a poring is cute. Marin is not. And a smurf board is not that cool.

[Fwiffo]

I wondering if it won't be possible to get a 50+ person consensus on a wild colored set. Would everyone prefer just a black set of double-shots with some extra keys?

[Azuremen]

I wondering if it won't be possible to get a 50+ person consensus on a wild colored set. Would everyone prefer just a black set of double-shots with some extra keys?

I think I would prefer a Black set more so. Black on Black like the Ducky keycaps, with some colors for certain keys.

[guilleguillaume]

I think I would prefer a Black set more so. Black on Black like the Ducky keycaps, with some colors for certain keys.

Someone suggested before Keycaps matching the colour scheme from the HHKB 2 so it's actually similar to this you suggest. I think it's cool but anyway I don't find a reason for going with only Black on Black it must look boring, we need some colour in there on a few keys.

Anybody thought about a white double shot GEEK HACK? we can think about getting this key in all the colour availables to match every user taste so anybody can change when getting bored about the red one for example, you put a yellow one, a white one, bright blue ...look at this:


And this pic makes me crazy, I love those colours :


Or what about a bone colour selection of keycaps like on this one:


It should look great with the black colour of some keyboards like they HHKB 2 from chongyixiong:


But actually the HHKB 2 it's more like dark grey than black mmm I'm not sure about the perfect match with a black one.

[Fwiffo]

Black on black works for the ducky because they're pad printed. I don't think you'd be able to distinguish black-on-black double-shots from completely blank keys. I guess you could do dark gray on black or vice versa. I like the look of bone with the gray frame, but I don't think it would look as good with black.

Doing a group order of blanks might be another idea. It would be a lot cheaper and everyone might be able to customize their own sets.

[db_Iodine]

I'd be interested in a set of custom colored blanks for sure. The international booster pack might not get me all the legends so blanks might be a better option for me.

[strikeme]

Colored blanks sound awesome!

[Twitchy]

Orange looks strong don't you think? It's geekhack's colour.

[strikeme]

Orange looks strong don't you think? It's geekhack's colour.

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You need to use more pastel colors, like the keys on the Model M above.

[didjamatic]

Finally a keyboard you can eat Cheetos while using

[Kairxa]

I wondering if it won't be possible to get a 50+ person consensus on a wild colored set. Would everyone prefer just a black set of double-shots with some extra keys?

I do want - as long it's not that blue. It's not dark nor light.

[microsoft windows]

Finally a keyboard you can eat Cheetos while using

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But it'll still feel greasy and cull of crumbs when you eat Cheetos.

[jmpespxoreax]

I think it would be excellent to have a dark grey on black, or black on dark grey, or DOLCH colours like last time.

[Oqsy]

I'd love a set of 104-ish DOLCH color that would be profiled correctly for the mx-11900.  I took the set off my actual DOLCH board, and they're far too loose for the stems of the later brown cherry switches.  My escape key shoots off like a Pog whenever I hit it off-center.

[HaaTa]

Haha, Pogs.

[Mr. Perfect]

Can they do colored letters on black?

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That's actually really sharp looking. Ok, so maybe you'd want to stick to just one color, but why must every keyboard be limited to white or black lettering?

[wap32]

I'd love a set of 104-ish DOLCH color that would be profiled correctly for the mx-11900.  I took the set off my actual DOLCH board, and they're far too loose for the stems of the later brown cherry switches.  My escape key shoots off like a Pog whenever I hit it off-center.

This.
I already bought a set from the first round, but I'd seriously consider buying another if it included the keys to fit an ISO mx-11800.
IIRC, that would require different modkeys (Rshift, R/Lctrl, R/Lalt) plus spacebar, not counting the ISO differences (extra key, enter, Lshift).

Also, as it has been mentioned, a blank set would be pretty cool, preferably colored like the white/grey HHKB set.
A crazy idea would be to double-shoot just some of the keys, a blank keyboard w/ just the modkeys labeled, or enter, or esc or whatever.
Just thinking aloud...