Author Topic: White PBT double shot_red (Read 13547 times)

Vortex-JC · « **on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 08:38:54 »

Pt. 1

Red color.

yasuo · « **Reply #1 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:11:32 »

PBT DS?
look rare usually PBT DYE/ABS DS

linziyi · « **Reply #2 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:15:05 »

:/ if only they are double shot THICK pbt...

keymaster · « **Reply #3 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:16:28 »

Quote from: linziyi on Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:15:05

:/ if only they are double shot THICK pbt...

They look thick to me. Vortex really needs to change that font, though. Otherwise, it looks good.

badcop · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:16:48 »

they look pretty thick to me

they really need to get rid of that typeface though.

badcop · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:17:11 »

Quote from: keymaster on Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:16:28

Quote from: linziyi on Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:15:05
:/ if only they are double shot THICK pbt...

They look thick to me. Vortex really needs to change that font, though. Otherwise, it looks good.

whoa we posted that at the same time.

divito · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:54:22 »

Enormous font on the function keys is a big turn off.

HendyZone · « **Reply #7 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:04:45 »

interesting

SpAmRaY · « **Reply #8 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:06:47 »

I concur.....that font

TheSoulhunter · « **Reply #9 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:21:31 »

PBT Doubleshots? AWESOME!
Dat font? Not so nice :/

JPG · « **Reply #10 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:22:51 »

Looks like the same font as the dye sub vortex pbt set from Feng's B and I must say that I ended up liking the font. I hesitated because of the font, but I still got them because they were thick pbt and at a nice price, but the font is also quite nice in real.

divito · « **Reply #11 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:25:44 »

Quote from: JPG on Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:22:51

Looks like the same font as the dye sub vortex pbt set from Feng's B and I must say that I ended up liking the font. I hesitated because of the font, but I still got them because they were thick pbt and at a nice price, but the font is also quite nice in real.

It's not so much the font in my personal issue with it. The individual letter keys and such are fine, quite nice even. It's that the usage on the function keys is larger, and the all caps on the rest of the 6-key and such are, in my opinion, abhorrent. The white and red look great, and I'm sure the quality is awesome, but those little things would nag at me so much.

Photekq · « **Reply #12 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:31:21 »

I don't understand why you'd choose to make moulds for this font.. Helvetica, Cherry replica.. ANYTHING would be better than this.

Vortex, you have cool ideas and you do innovative stuff, but often your execution is terrible. This is a prime example of that.

TheSoulhunter · « **Reply #13 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:43:03 »

Quote from: Photekq on Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:31:21

I don't understand why you'd choose to make moulds for this font.. Helvetica, Cherry replica.. ANYTHING would be better than this.

Vortex, you have cool ideas and you do innovative stuff, but often your execution is terrible. This is a prime example of that.

Yeah, a simple "What is your favorite keycap font?" poll here and in the other KB forums would have been an easy way to check what people like.

Game Theory · « **Reply #14 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:55:23 »

Artistic choice?

TheSoulhunter · « **Reply #15 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:21:18 »

Quote from: Game Theory on Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:55:23

Artistic choice?

That's another way...
But if you wanna sell stuff, and make cash, tests/studies/surveys/probing, and actually producing what the customer wants, proved to work well.
Either that, or aggressive mind-washing advertizing and "trend setting" to make the people think that they want/need the product you offer

PepperPanda · « **Reply #16 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:34:10 »

If they made this cherry font, pretty sure everyone here would pick up a set

jonathanyu · « **Reply #17 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 14:26:48 »

i like pbt, i like double shot. PBT double shot? awesome

but the front

___q · « **Reply #18 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 16:46:50 »

I don't mind the font so much, but the ESC looks pretty out of place.

Excited to see more DS PBT being made!

gropingmantis · « **Reply #19 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 17:40:10 »

DS PBT Yes yes yes.

But please please please use Cherry font.

gigibecali · « **Reply #20 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 20:00:00 »

I wonder how they feel.
It seems to me that the red is not so well/uniformly welded/molded.
I may be wrong though.

quake4mhg · « **Reply #21 on:** Sun, 18 August 2013, 03:49:31 »

Very interesting

rowdy · « **Reply #22 on:** Sun, 18 August 2013, 03:49:56 »

I don't mind the italic font, but the Esc does seem out of place, and F1-F12 would be better with a smaller font, and perhaps top-aligned like Prt Scr, Scroll Lock etc.

Inklebert · « **Reply #23 on:** Mon, 19 August 2013, 14:38:03 »

Love the color not the font!

scruffles · « **Reply #24 on:** Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:11:07 »

I actually like the font. Surprised to see everyone so dead set against it.

rowdy · « **Reply #25 on:** Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:21:49 »

Quote from: scruffles on Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:11:07

I actually like the font. Surprised to see everyone so dead set against it.

I like the font - you are not alone

nubbinator · « **Reply #26 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:38:31 »

Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:21:49

Quote from: scruffles on Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:11:07
I actually like the font. Surprised to see everyone so dead set against it.

I like the font - you are not alone

The font looks, as others have so accurately phrased it, sarcastic. It's just grating to me. I'm also not a fan of how much bigger the font is on the function row keys and how the legend placement is all over the place. Function row? We'll center it. Alphas and numpad? The legend goes in the top left. Arrow keys? Even though it makes no sense, we'll do centered left. Home, End, Delete, Num Lock, etc? Top and centered. Modifiers? Hey, it's a party that everyone is invited to! We'll have some centered to the left, some completely centered, and some centered and to the top.

I want to like this cap set, but so much is going on and it's like it was decided by committee or parts of the set were delegated to different teams who had no clue what the others were doing. In the end, it just makes for a bad looking cap set.

SpAmRaY · « **Reply #27 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:44:52 »

Quote from: nubbinator on Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:38:31

Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:21:49
Quote from: scruffles on Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:11:07
I actually like the font. Surprised to see everyone so dead set against it.

I like the font - you are not alone

The font looks, as others have so accurately phrased it, sarcastic. It's just grating to me. I'm also not a fan of how much bigger the font is on the function row keys and how the legend placement is all over the place. Function row? We'll center it. Alphas and numpad? The legend goes in the top left. Arrow keys? Even though it makes no sense, we'll do centered left. Home, End, Delete, Num Lock, etc? Top and centered. Modifiers? Hey, it's a party that everyone is invited to! We'll have some centered to the left, some completely centered, and some centered and to the top.

I want to like this cap set, but so much is going on and it's like it was decided by committee or parts of the set were delegated to different teams who had no clue what the others were doing. In the end, it just makes for a bad looking cap set.

A Sarcastic keyset would be awesome!

TheSoulhunter · « **Reply #28 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:49:11 »

Quote from: SpAmRaY on Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:44:52

Quote from: nubbinator on Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:38:31
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:21:49
Quote from: scruffles on Mon, 19 August 2013, 21:11:07
I actually like the font. Surprised to see everyone so dead set against it.

I like the font - you are not alone

The font looks, as others have so accurately phrased it, sarcastic. It's just grating to me. I'm also not a fan of how much bigger the font is on the function row keys and how the legend placement is all over the place. Function row? We'll center it. Alphas and numpad? The legend goes in the top left. Arrow keys? Even though it makes no sense, we'll do centered left. Home, End, Delete, Num Lock, etc? Top and centered. Modifiers? Hey, it's a party that everyone is invited to! We'll have some centered to the left, some completely centered, and some centered and to the top.

I want to like this cap set, but so much is going on and it's like it was decided by committee or parts of the set were delegated to different teams who had no clue what the others were doing. In the end, it just makes for a bad looking cap set.

A Sarcastic keyset would be awesome!

Comic Sans!

rowdy · « **Reply #29 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:54:17 »

A sarcastic group buy full of sarcasm loving members would not be a pretty sight.

Vortex-JC · « **Reply #30 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 05:15:24 »

More Colors

esoomenona · « **Reply #31 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 12:18:31 »

Poor Vortex.

>Offers thick(ish) doubleshot PBT.
>"Hate your font!"

SpAmRaY · « **Reply #32 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 12:19:51 »

Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 20 August 2013, 01:54:17

A sarcastic group buy full of sarcasm loving members would not be a pretty sight.

^^ That's pretty much the normal around here isn't it?

rowdy · « **Reply #33 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 17:33:07 »

Quote from: Vortex-JC on Tue, 20 August 2013, 05:15:24

More Colors

Nice extra colours

But the comments about the legends still stands - Esc and F-row are too big, and the others would be better centred vertically - especially num lock.

Hypersphere · « **Reply #34 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 16:59:01 »

It is good to see someone making double-shot PBT keycaps! However, I agree that before going to the trouble and expense of making molds for them, it would be good to conduct a survey to assess interest in specific fonts, point sizes, orientation of legends, and background colors and foreground (legend) colors.

Taking a look at some of the time-honored designs would be helpful, such as the keycap design on the venerable IBM Model M and the classic Cherry font, especially as implemented on the Olivetti and Dolch keyboards.

Regarding colors, because it is not possible to produce dye-sub PBT in a white on black keycap, it would be nice to do white on black double-shot PBT. It would also be good to have two-tone schemes available, such as the classic off-white (ivory) and beige with black legends, as used in classic keyboards such as the IBM Model M.

Thanks.

jil_jil32 · « **Reply #35 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 17:05:43 »

The font is very ugly to me -_-

Photoelectric · « **Reply #36 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 17:33:55 »

Where can I get some of those sets! I don't even care about the font--DS PBT <3 I love the feel of PBT and thick caps.

bazemk1979 · « **Reply #37 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 17:45:01 »

The font is not bad, the only thing it kills it for me is the F row and Esc, they are huge!!!

demik · « **Reply #38 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 22:28:33 »

vortex continues to use a hideous font.

will they ever learn?

JPG · « **Reply #39 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 22:51:55 »

It's really not hideous. I have a vortex dyesub set (seems a little different but close) and the font looks good in real. But I must approve that they could have done better, more so considering the trouble of making molds for Double shots.

But it's no reason to hate. Also, I suppose that if they can to double shots, they can do any color combination, so if I was them the first thing I would do is do something else than a white base color since that's what's mostly used on dyesub because of the dyesub limitation.

I don't know what is their mock, but if it's much lower than GMK it would open up a lot of possibilities!

rowdy · « **Reply #40 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 22:56:24 »

The font on my Filco yellow keycaps is kinda italic. It grows on you, but I'm probably biased 'cause they are yellow keycaps.

Photoelectric · « **Reply #41 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 22:58:00 »

I don't mind the font at all.

bahamot · « **Reply #42 on:** Wed, 28 August 2013, 20:38:49 »

No more update? Very intrigued with the keycaps

isaske · « **Reply #43 on:** Thu, 29 August 2013, 06:58:12 »

Is there gonna eb a group buy for those? If they are thick, i would love one set of those. I never felt a PBT thick cap, never even tried normals, bt i will order normals shortly. Wonder how big the difference is. What's the price approximately gonna be?

Binge · « **Reply #44 on:** Thu, 29 August 2013, 17:31:40 »

please... fix... the... font.

Hyde · « **Reply #45 on:** Thu, 29 August 2013, 17:59:03 »

Quote from: bazemk1979 on Sun, 25 August 2013, 17:45:01

The font is not bad, the only thing it kills it for me is the F row and Esc, they are huge!!!

Yeah I agree, the rest is tolerable, but the F row and Esc is too ridiculous.

Halvar · « **Reply #46 on:** Thu, 29 August 2013, 18:28:21 »

Deskthority user's verdict was pretty similar:

http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/white-pbt-double-shot-keycap-t6340.html

TheeCOoon · « **Reply #47 on:** Thu, 29 August 2013, 22:29:12 »

I want these keys!!!!!!!!!!!!

concept73 · « **Reply #48 on:** Fri, 06 September 2013, 06:01:39 »

They look really nice, any chance of a set for 60% boards?

bahamot · « **Reply #49 on:** Mon, 16 September 2013, 12:29:15 »

Whether you like it or not, massdrop does GB for these caps: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/vortex-keycaps

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Author Topic: White PBT double shot_red (Read 13547 times)