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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1150 on: Sun, 06 August 2017, 13:12:14 »
Can anyone help me find a place that will print a picture onto a keycap(so a customizable key cap) its for a gift(:
imsto can dye sub PBT R1 keycaps. 
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1151 on: Sun, 06 August 2017, 14:02:57 »
Can anyone help me find a place that will print a picture onto a keycap(so a customizable key cap) its for a gift(:

Imsto.cn?

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1152 on: Thu, 10 August 2017, 18:36:48 »
i was thinking cyanide capsule keycaps just in case
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1153 on: Wed, 23 August 2017, 12:47:15 »
Custom design I'm working on.  Feedback welcome.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1154 on: Thu, 24 August 2017, 12:55:23 »
hey i just saw this thread and, since i make custom keycaps for people fairly often, wanted to offer my services if anyone wants some white PBT dye-sublimated caps made!  :cool: :cool:

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1155 on: Sat, 04 November 2017, 05:27:16 »
Wait for space bar artisan
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1156 on: Wed, 06 December 2017, 10:12:32 »
Can anyone help me find a place that will print a picture onto a keycap(so a customizable key cap) its for a gift(:

Imsto.cn?


that's a good source, yes

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1157 on: Wed, 06 December 2017, 10:12:53 »
Wait for space bar artisan


already happened ;)

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1158 on: Mon, 29 January 2018, 13:39:53 »
How about a hacking keyset, something like the matrix colour and font,or somthing like with toxic yellow
or
some colour combination of pruple and canvace?

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1159 on: Mon, 05 February 2018, 20:41:53 »
Is there a list of vendors? For keycaps?
DSA, SA, XDA, OEM, Cherry?
I know of SP and IMSTO, but what about for like those group buys?
I would like some XDA PBT Vendor? Thx

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1160 on: Tue, 06 February 2018, 06:08:30 »
How about a hacking keyset, something like the matrix colour and font,or somthing like with toxic yellow


well theres GMK >Terminal_ and DCS & JTK Toxic that fulfill those two ;)

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1161 on: Wed, 07 February 2018, 12:31:10 »
I thought using the color in the keycaps would be affected by the radiation from it, because the colors like green and white nature contain high radiation?
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1162 on: Wed, 14 February 2018, 18:52:44 »
I'm working on these Ghoul Sculpts at the moment. Think of doing blue and silver next. Any other combo ideas?

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1163 on: Tue, 27 February 2018, 13:05:02 »
Did we ever get these going in cherry profile?

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If GMK is going to be too expensive (since it would require all new legends) maybe we could go with SP DCS?  I just want to make sure the legends stay all ****ty and fuzzy.

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« Reply #1164 on: Tue, 06 March 2018, 13:59:40 »
Started designing a few boards based around knightmares from code geass.

Doing versions with english and hiragana later today, and starting in novelty keys tomorrow.

Any input would be great, link below is the rest of the set!

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/KZAkX

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1165 on: Sun, 22 April 2018, 01:12:54 »
Hey guys, I saw that pimpmykeyboard.com was accepting design submissions. I made a few different color schemes, let me know what you think!

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1166 on: Sun, 22 April 2018, 14:21:38 »
I took a look at the few I recently posted, and decided a lot of the design was too jarring and loud. This time I went for a softer look, and changed the position and size of some of the legends. Let me know what you think!

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1167 on: Sun, 13 May 2018, 15:49:57 »
The grayscale one is an interesting idea

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1168 on: Sun, 27 May 2018, 10:52:14 »
I was thinking to design a keyset based on the concept of rusted metal but ultimately I realized that I only care for classic colour schemes.
If anyone wants to further develop this idea, they can be my guest.
Here's the KLE and here's the KLE render.



It was originally intended to be made at GMK with standard colours to keep the MOQ relatively low, hence the name of GMK Rust, but again, it's yours now if you like it.
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1169 on: Sat, 21 July 2018, 22:13:34 »
Before I post an IC, i wanted to share it here because i might be copying someone else's idea.

SA Rastafari  ;)



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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1170 on: Mon, 17 September 2018, 18:09:12 »
I'm just looking for a set of Cyrillic to throw on a full 104 keyboard. But wanted the Cyrillic more prominent.
Haven't seen anything out there like that yet.203781-0

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1171 on: Sun, 23 September 2018, 03:28:44 »
I did this Planck keyboard layout and I really want to make it real, but I don't know how  :-\

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1172 on: Wed, 10 October 2018, 04:38:31 »
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1. doubleshots 37 set with Russian Cyrillic legend ONLY, no Latin, aligned bottom right, bright orange on cream. Instead of arrow, the extra 4 would be cream on orange for the цфыв keys.

Screw йцукенг, real men use яверты.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1173 on: Thu, 11 October 2018, 15:10:01 »
anyone make a miku set yet
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1174 on: Mon, 26 November 2018, 12:16:54 »
Would anyone else be interested in Sky Dolch colorway in a different profile? XDA or MT3 maybe?

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1175 on: Mon, 03 December 2018, 21:36:58 »
I'm considering designing a keycaps that encapsulates the nostalgia of 80s/90s adventure gaming (classic Sierra and Lucas Arts).  I've been exploring Kings Quest / Gabriel Knight / Colonel's Bequest / Sam and Max / Day of the Tentacle / Monkey Island as inspiration.  Maybe some Zork and early IF too?

WALK / LOOK / ASK / TALK / PICK UP / OPEN / CLOSE / OPERATE / MOVE / INVENTORY
 
Using the classic inventory icons, cursors, or common interpreter language as art.  Anyone interested in something like that?  Obviously need more specifics, especially around color scheme, but the general idea is to capture the feel of 80s and 90s adventure gaming. 
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1176 on: Wed, 19 December 2018, 14:11:17 »
My first computer back in 1983 was a ZX Spectrum!

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1177 on: Mon, 07 January 2019, 09:08:45 »
I searched but could not find this.  The internet only throws up some 3D print ideas.  It might already have been discussed here but I wanted to know if ...

Anyone has made a Destiny cap of any sort?  A 'Ghost' for the ESC key or 'Ace of Spades' for the backspace would very cool I think.
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1178 on: Sun, 13 January 2019, 03:29:02 »
Natural sapphires cut and rough looking for a good home in some of the beautiful key caps you guys make. Is anyone currently doing this? I'd like to speak to a professional if possible. Someone get at me!
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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1179 on: Sun, 13 January 2019, 04:34:31 »
2019 and still no one has made solid glass keycaps

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1180 on: Tue, 05 February 2019, 19:46:42 »
I saw a solarized keycap set the other day, so how about a gruvbox set?

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1181 on: Tue, 05 February 2019, 21:50:29 »
I'm just looking for a set of Cyrillic to throw on a full 104 keyboard. But wanted the Cyrillic more prominent.
Haven't seen anything out there like that yet. (Attachment Link)

I use Cyrillic from time to time but no way I'll buy Russian Cyrillic layout. I prefer the original Bulgarian phonetic Cyrillic layout - the proper Cyrillic designed and invented for Bulgarian use in the 9the century.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1182 on: Sun, 10 March 2019, 05:55:07 »
I'm pondering an Autobahn-themed set – I don't think DIN molds exist so I'd have to be dye-sub/reverse dye-sub… (with APL sub legends here and without)

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1183 on: Sun, 10 March 2019, 08:01:58 »
What about the Mega Man X life icon into an artisan keycap? I'd think that look really cool.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1184 on: Tue, 16 April 2019, 08:23:30 »
How about a simple monochromatic set?

GMK 2B keys with U9 legends, and maybe a couple reversed accent keys.

edit - similar to nines, but not nearly as dark

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1185 on: Thu, 18 April 2019, 08:39:02 »
Did we ever get these going in cherry profile?

(Attachment Link)

If GMK is going to be too expensive (since it would require all new legends) maybe we could go with SP DCS?  I just want to make sure the legends stay all ****ty and fuzzy.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1186 on: Fri, 19 April 2019, 16:35:23 »
A full WINDOWED keyset, windowed slit to let LED shine through like this one http://i.imgur.com/rsJ2yt9.jpg

I think this will look way better than the pudding keycaps.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1187 on: Sat, 04 May 2019, 19:24:23 »
Can we please try and push this to be used for "idea"-level keycap sets instead of IC threads being made for nothing more than a single render of a colorway someone thought up 10 minutes before

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1188 on: Sun, 05 May 2019, 10:07:49 »
Can we please try and push this to be used for "idea"-level keycap sets instead of IC threads being made for nothing more than a single render of a colorway someone thought up 10 minutes before

This is my first time in this thread and that was what I was expecting to see when I came in here. I think now that free keycap renders are readily available (and quickly at that), we definitely need a thread in the vein of ideas instead of multiple new GMK IC's a week that don't seem to get much follow up. Be it that this thread is reworked to meet that need or a new stickied thread is nested under the IC forum, it seems necessary.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1189 on: Tue, 07 May 2019, 10:39:37 »
How about a simple monochromatic set?

GMK 2B keys with U9 legends, and maybe a couple reversed accent keys.

edit - similar to nines, but not nearly as dark
love that

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1190 on: Thu, 16 May 2019, 14:43:11 »
Can we please try and push this to be used for "idea"-level keycap sets instead of IC threads being made for nothing more than a single render of a colorway someone thought up 10 minutes before

This is my first time in this thread and that was what I was expecting to see when I came in here. I think now that free keycap renders are readily available (and quickly at that), we definitely need a thread in the vein of ideas instead of multiple new GMK IC's a week that don't seem to get much follow up. Be it that this thread is reworked to meet that need or a new stickied thread is nested under the IC forum, it seems necessary.

Sounds to me that we'd need a thread that explicitly says something like "Post your initial (possibly half-backed) render here for some initial feedback before you post a proper IC!".

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1191 on: Mon, 24 June 2019, 10:12:53 »
I was thinking something similar to black ice from rainbow. It would be hard to do but I think it could come out nice.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1192 on: Thu, 04 July 2019, 01:09:09 »
Building my friend a custom keyboards and he picked the theme Zenyatta (overwatch). He wants gold and white color scheme for the key caps, also he likes the feel of SA keys. The case is going to be a KBD19x in silver. This is what I came up with since I couldn't find a set that matches this color scheme. The ESC and the symmetrical extra key are going to be artisan. but thoughts? The picture that was used as reference is attached below. Also does anyone know the best place to create custom keycaps?

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1193 on: Wed, 07 August 2019, 22:39:09 »
Is there a list of vendors? For keycaps?
DSA, SA, XDA, OEM, Cherry?
I know of SP and IMSTO, but what about for like those group buys?
I would like some XDA PBT Vendor? Thx

  ;D would you like try MDA?

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1194 on: Thu, 22 August 2019, 13:24:34 »
Hey everyone, this is my first try at "design" of keycap set mine is inspired on my favorite anime character of all time, Lain this is my first try at it, I'd love some feedback on the colors because I ended up with a few versions.. let me know what you think a

SA Lain

https://imgur.com/a/xwG7qIC

Let me know your thoughts please :)

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1195 on: Mon, 09 September 2019, 21:24:42 »
Hey everyone, this is my first try at "design" of keycap set mine is inspired on my favorite anime character of all time, Lain this is my first try at it, I'd love some feedback on the colors because I ended up with a few versions.. let me know what you think a

SA Lain

https://imgur.com/a/xwG7qIC

Let me know your thoughts please :)

I'm relatively sure I'm breaking the law in more than 40 states by looking at those photos.

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1196 on: Tue, 10 September 2019, 00:56:41 »
Hey everyone, this is my first try at "design" of keycap set mine is inspired on my favorite anime character of all time, Lain this is my first try at it, I'd love some feedback on the colors because I ended up with a few versions.. let me know what you think a

SA Lain

https://imgur.com/a/xwG7qIC

Let me know your thoughts please :)

I'm relatively sure I'm breaking the law in more than 40 states by looking at those photos.

Notice one of the captions on imgur says "messing around with an all brown and pink."  HA!

I like the colors.  I prefer version 2

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1197 on: Tue, 10 September 2019, 02:06:20 »
thanks for the feedback! yeah I personally liked that one too! haha also I put the pictures of Lain to give more context to the color choice haha

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1198 on: Tue, 24 September 2019, 10:30:48 »
I would really appreciate getting feedback on these two designs.
I made them after one concept, which is two create functional, adaptable keycap set aimed at editors, compositors and motion graphic artists who need to (as it is often the case) work in several applications to create media.
That being said while functionality and adaptability is of high concern I kind of appreciate understated looks but with notable accents.
The first colorway started off as an inverted dolch, but then morphed as I warmed the modifiers into a beige grey color because cold grey was a tad too monotone on a set with dark alphas for my eyes - not enough distinction.
At first I did not think of making the alphas with cadet sub-legends but the 1.) cost of complete custom new molds are probably prohibitive 2.) cadets are clean and graphical and those symbols can be adapted to a multitude of common tasks over several apps 3.) I guess people like them? (hope that trend has not worn off yet lo)
The second colorway was way easier in my mind to put together and tame the custom colors because it is basically a modded honeywell - so you have to try to screw that up. I just try to tame the special function row colors by not making them too bright or saturated as not distract from the alphas and special characters on the alphas, just get overall balance. Of course "normal" colored function keys would be included in the kits so one can mix and mesh.
My first time designing a set so sorry for the few quirks (blender hates html entities and as I am doing this project in my spare time uv mapping the custom legend onto every keycap would take a bit too much time for me at this stage- so I just approximated symbols in the renders out of blender). So sublegends/custom symbols in the renders are funny - look at the original kle layout sheet for the intended ones. But it does give a nicer realistic impression of the the sets can look on actual boards, and I am assuming in somewhat dimmer light which would be a normal working environment.


Note: the first blender render still had light grey alpha legends, I changed it to the same pink off-white as the special F9 key color in the final renders and is probably what I would do in the final design to consolidate the colors.

The bellow images have the same color on alpha legends as the special F9 key.




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Honeywell inspired version






Leaning GMK or DCS over DSA or SA, actually most certainly not gonna be SA.

Very thankful for your feedback and tips!




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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1199 on: Tue, 24 September 2019, 11:47:26 »
There is so much going on... what about just an addon kit without a base?  Just do the mod/fn keys that you want in colors with a simple legend color?  Then buyers could add that visual/functionality to any base set.