What are your opinions on colouring non-modifier keys?

[trombompoline]

For example, many people choose to have their letter/number keys one colour and their modifiers a different colour but they choose to make their [\] key the same as their modifiers, even though it is not one because it looks better. What are your thoughts on this? Functionality or aesthetics?

[MajorMajor]

I wouldn't say there's any "functionality" difference, I'm sure most of us don't rely very much on color-coded keys to find what to press.

I think the aesthetics can work either way. On my WASDv2 87 I currently have the Deep Space set  with purple modifiers, `,  and  \ because I think it looks best. On my Das Pro4 I left  the ` and \ the same color as my alphas. IMO as long as it's consistent (` and \ match), it looks good.

[Shaussman]

Aesthetics are the most important thing imo. I don't look at the keyboard to find keys, so "functionally"  color coding keys is kind of useless

[Geroximo]

I think: it depends.

[jerue]

it is very much an aesthetics thing. I prefer it.

[rowdy]

I prefer alphas (i.e. keys that produce a single printable ASCII charater) to be one colour, and all other keys to be another colour.  With the exception of function keys, there F1 to F4 and F9 to F12 are the alpha colour.

Exactly what this SSK look like!