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[IC] GMK CYL Highlight (Hi Leicht) | Poll to decide modifier legend preference
Bobatype:
--- Quote from: XiXora on Tue, 04 February 2025, 05:49:04 ---Fun set! If you're going to include alternate enter colour for ANSI, please don't leave us out in ISO.
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Appreciate the positivity :). Ah you mean the alternate red enter? Sure thing.
I'm still considering if it's achievable to fit purple within the set, and that's kind of where I'd be keen to fit it in.
And if so, I'm considering if making the legends Yellow on the Purple background (similar to GMK Nerve) would look good. I'll have to do some test renders.
--- Quote from: m202307 on Tue, 04 February 2025, 06:38:15 ---Interested, but I'm way more likely to buy it if it runs with KKB instead of GMK.
I'd prefer if there were orange FJ keys available so you'd get consistent alphas; I'm not a fan of mixed colors on alphas.
Esc should probably be yellow; otherwise the yellow will be badly underrepresented on 60%-and-smaller boards. Usually esc/enter/space match on smaller layouts.
Also personal preference but any set that has weird legends ("hi" instead of "esc", or that one set that has "godspeed" instead of "enter"—what?) turns a set into an instant hard pass unless they're available as novelties and the base kit has standard legends.
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Mmm... given how recent GMK sets like Hippo and LoV were not successful during GB it might be a more feasible option to pivot to another manufacturer.
I also agree with preferring consistent color for all the alphas as an overall look if I had the option, thus I am happy to also offer orange F & J keys too. Question is, do I offer barred or scooped?
Happy to change the R2 Esc key for 40s to yellow instead. Thanks for the suggestion.
Appreciate the feedback regarding non-orthodox legends. It's probably less divisive (and honestly easier) to stick to standard legends for this set since the colours are already busy enough.
On a tangent, for OS legends, I just tend to get bored of 'Super' (it also doesn't fit as well on 1u like 'Sys'/'Code')). I also dislike how 'Code' starts with the same letter as the adjacent 'Ctrl'. I also dislike how the lower leg of the p in Super, and y in Sys breaks the visual bottom line. The only good alternative I can think of that isn't 'Win' is 'Meta' but it's a rather atypical modifier key legend.
If I do pursue alternative legends, I'll consider sliding them into the add-on kit if it's affordable.
Perhaps that's where I can slip in the fun 'Rub Out' alternate keys.
--- Quote from: keepoto on Tue, 04 February 2025, 07:23:19 ---Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
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Demise is necessary to illuminate the birth of the savior.
--- Quote from: mf0176 on Tue, 04 February 2025, 07:24:05 ---Is it April already?
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It's April everyday if you're a fool like me.
warhopper:
This is so horrifying, but I I'm going to need a set to blind myself with.
DivinaPapaya:
I like the idea of using this kind of colors, but id not choose the handarbeit distribution of them, id use dcs windbreaker's distribution of colors, or even gmk panels, just my two cents
Bobatype:
--- Quote from: warhopper on Tue, 04 February 2025, 08:18:26 ---This is so horrifying, but I I'm going to need a set to blind myself with.
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100%. I feel like Victor Frankenstein releasing this monstrosity.
But it's for the greater good in the end.
Perhaps it'll make you touch-type more. I want users to consider if it's worth looking down at their keycaps to get punched in the eyes from the sensory overload.
--- Quote from: DivinaPapaya on Tue, 04 February 2025, 08:45:30 ---I like the idea of using this kind of colors, but id not choose the handarbeit distribution of them, id use dcs windbreaker's distribution of colors, or even gmk panels, just my two cents
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DCS windbreaker is a great keycap set, which I totally forgot has a similar spirit. Anyways I think copying the same distribution would make it a little too close in similarity. I also don't think I'd adopt GMK Panel's distribution either since the multi-coloured latin alphas has less 'logic' than Handarbeit's distribution (it's inspiration is much different).
But perhaps one way to emulate strengths of their pattern would be to offer some alternative colour R4 modifier options in the Add-on kit to add more chaos/visual variety.
I also like the set being a variant built off the Handarbeit heritage, i.e Handarbeige and Nachtarbeit
It's the first keycap set to ever hurt me, and I keen to pass on that pain.
twitchytheinsideman:
uhm
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