A small suggestion regarding the NorDeUK kit: you may want to drop all of the sublegends on the keys. Currently the kit is quite large, and doing this will help reduce its size, since there are several keys that only differ in their tertiary legends and are otherwise duplicates. For example, the R4 <>, <>|, <>\; R1 2"@, 3#£, 4$€; etc. could all be removed if you decide to drop the sublegends. (The R4 <> can be dropped in either case, since it now exists in the base kit.)
And speaking of which, you can also drop the R4 \| in the base kit; it isn't necessary with the R4 <> around.
The kits look good otherwise, both in terms of size and compatibility.
Hey! Thanks for this, this will help us with finalizing the sets!
Actually, not dropped, but moved to the NorDeUK kit — as it stands now, neither kit has the R4 \| key, which IS needed for the English (UK) layout.
Hey! Would this be right? Added a \| for r4 now in the base
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Excellent. You're leaving me no room to complain!!! :D :D :D
Okay,
almost no room. :D
Those that follow are
small observations, so they're all in the "consider them, but don't feel obligated to comply" category.
- NorDeUk kit: consider adding a numpad comma keycap (as is the standard in the German, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish/Finnish layouts).
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This might be just a rendering issue: The double quote characters in the
'" (base kit) and
2" (NorDeUK) keys are adirectional, but in the
2"² and
2"@ in the NorDeUK kit are directional; just make sure they are all adirectional (as already are all the single quotes).
- Consider adding one more R4 1.25u key, whether it's a convex blank in the space bar module or a "Menu" or (better) "Sys", "Meta" or "Super" key in the base kit. Why?
Future-proofing!The
HMKB group buy, which just closed, has (among other options) a TKL layouts where the 6.25U space bar is split in the usual manner (2.25+1.25+2.75), which requires eight 1.25U keys in the bottom row instead of the usual seven all keycap sets provide. As far as I know, Maarten's Eon87 PCB is the first one to do so, but if this innovation does become popular, "shortages" will become an issue; in sets with common colors (think U9+L9 or Wob), this will be easily solved, but in sets with custom colors, it might be quite more of a problem.
When does the GB start? My wallet is crying here. :thumb: