Post by: synmuffin on Wed, 19 August 2020, 08:52:19
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Welcome to GMK gruvbox Interest Check!
Hello all and welcome to the GMK gruvbox IC. As a developer who works mainly in C I spend a lot of time in Vim as such my goto theme is gruvbox. This is a theme with a pastel 'retro groove' vibe. As gruvbox's main goal is to keep colours easily distinguishable, contrast enough while still being pleasant on the eyes this is what GMK gruvbox aims to do as well.
I've always wanted a gruvbox keycap set to go with gruvbox so I figured I would step up and do this. I've tried hard to stay as close as I could to using the colour pallet from gruvbox while maintaining a nice balance of colour and contrast.
The set features warm grays with desaturated browns, tints of red, green, yellow, blue and purple, alongside dark cream text.
IC Form & Feedback:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oxT5FMDn2qs54c5ME9FlOxEvO6hi9cXvlk_Olr8TMFg (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oxT5FMDn2qs54c5ME9FlOxEvO6hi9cXvlk_Olr8TMFg)
Kits
Base Kit
(https://i.imgur.com/Ga1xyxw.jpg)
If an effort to calm some jimmies here is what the original modifiers legends were. (lowercase with no icon)
(https://i.imgur.com/L5H3Bcp.jpg)
Also I've had a few people request dark alphas so here is what that would look like.
(https://i.imgur.com/FjBoHK9.jpg)
40's Kit
(https://i.imgur.com/pILh1L1.png)
Vim Kit
(https://i.imgur.com/ChSq84y.png)
More on Colours
To touch a little more on the colours I’ve included the original colours paired with their RAL counterpart below.
(https://i.imgur.com/5y39azc.png)
To add to this I've added render of gruvbox right next to Oblivion... hopefully people will see the diff. This shows gruvbox on the top and Oblivion on the bottom.
(https://i.imgur.com/k496dDn.jpg)
Thanks
- Thanks to ApexKeyboards for all his help.
- NathanAlphaMan for his help, feedback, ideas, and colour help and more.
Vendors (Planned Vendors):
- ApexKeyboards (US/CAN)
- Mykeyboard.eu (EU)
- Dailyclack (OCE/AUS)
- Monstar (ASIA)
Initial Renders:
Iron180
(https://i.imgur.com/GAZD4pw.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6W5zVt9.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gwbBhE7.jpg)
PC E85
(https://i.imgur.com/3cK1eyq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/mWYEIDD.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/tQybAQF.jpg)
Iron165
(https://i.imgur.com/TrDhTTJ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/wlmEEIE.jpg)
Artisan Cap
(https://i.imgur.com/ftUcQdH.jpg)
Post by: synmuffin on Wed, 19 August 2020, 08:52:54
Post by: yoot on Wed, 19 August 2020, 08:56:46
Post by: ergusto on Wed, 19 August 2020, 08:56:57
Post by: darthcapn on Wed, 19 August 2020, 08:57:38
Post by: synmuffin on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:03:43
This is quite close to oblivion.
In that they are both IDE themes... yes.
Post by: falzm on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:05:39
Post by: Wilba on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:06:04
My jimmies are rustled.
Post by: nu_types on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:10:10
This is quite close to oblivion.
Well, IDE themes don't really tend to vary greatly from one to another. But yes this is very similar. And just to head this off, no the Oblivion colorway does not belong to nor is it an original idea of Oblotzky (although he has some very good original designs). Just saying this in case someone doesn't know this and tries to gatekeep because someone wants to make an IDE themed set that sort of looks like another IDE themed set.
Honestly at this point I'm tired of IDE themed sets, they just strike me as low effort. That's just a personal opinion, though.
Post by: Furikurichemy on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:13:35
Post by: synmuffin on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:13:59
C keywords are lowercase.
My jimmies are rustled.
I understand, I did play with them going back and forth on lowercase / uppercase but the the lowercase never seemed to fit right. I would be happy to share the renders of those if you would like to c. ;)
Post by: nu_types on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:14:40
Post by: foysauce_ on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:26:17
Either way, excited to see this IDE theme come to life!
Post by: synmuffin on Wed, 19 August 2020, 09:38:40
Oh wow, I use Gruvbox for Pycharm, Vim, Iterm, everything pretty much. For some reason this doesn't quite match with my Gruvbox background colors, but maybe that's hard to represent in the renders.
Either way, excited to see this IDE theme come to life!
Yeah the bg colour on the default dark theme is used in the modifiers while the lighter I used in the alphas. Check out the colours image I posted and you'll see the original gruvbox colours compared to their RAL counterparts I went with. :thumb:
Post by: The.Ryan.Gamer on Wed, 19 August 2020, 10:42:52
Post by: IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES on Wed, 19 August 2020, 10:46:47
Post by: Benedikt on Wed, 19 August 2020, 11:03:11
Post by: NoPunIn10Did on Wed, 19 August 2020, 11:05:40
Have a look at your alpha legends too; some of the alignment is screwy (particularly with punctuation). GMK uses a left-align pattern but they fudge it a lot. There should be some models out on the intertubes that match those particular legends more closely (and mean you won't have to apply text in this manner).
Have you considered how expensive this will be to produce in GMK? Do any of these keyword legends exist? If so, in what sizes?
Post by: SilentEdge on Wed, 19 August 2020, 11:27:52
Post by: harlekein on Wed, 19 August 2020, 12:40:22
The set does not look like this to me:
(https://i.imgur.com/gwbBhE7.jpg)
(https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2fcf604967167347f15ca8be125d32b18db9bc28/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f476b496c38466e2e706e67)
Furthermore, I like the C keyword mods, but they should be full lower case imo.
I actually considered running this myself at some point, but I knew it was inevitable someone would. GMK <insert colort scheme> is a safe bet.
Post by: Dave Alvarado on Wed, 19 August 2020, 14:06:54
C keywords are lowercase.Same. I'd buy it's VB-style keywords, except for the Void.
My jimmies are rustled.
Post by: violeaf on Wed, 19 August 2020, 14:35:26
... somehow this kit looks really dull to me. It looks like plain grey and white instead of the warmer colors of Gruvbox.
Agree, it needs a much warmer tone. Funny enough I also tinkered with the the colour combo on wasdkeyboards, looks like it's going to be popular when a perfect set comes out...
Post by: CustomerSupport on Wed, 19 August 2020, 15:49:49
Post by: hottrout on Wed, 19 August 2020, 15:52:20
Post by: Vyndem on Thu, 20 August 2020, 08:04:07
Post by: synmuffin on Thu, 20 August 2020, 08:26:35
Post by: cadrev on Thu, 20 August 2020, 12:22:21
Post by: Owl on Thu, 20 August 2020, 16:15:00
Post by: Alchemist Keyboards on Thu, 20 August 2020, 17:00:26
Post by: synmuffin on Thu, 20 August 2020, 18:21:21
I agree that the set should be warmer. There is a great interview that Manofinterests did that featured Olivia in regards to how she chose the Olive green for GMK Olive. The intent isn't to color match to an actual olive but to choose a green that reminds you of an olive and just "feels" like an olive. I think that kind of consideration is needed here as well because the set feels extremely "cool" compared to the very "warm" IDE theme that a lot of us programmers are familiar with. I don't think it's a matter of actually matching the RAL's to the Original hexcodes of the theme but, rather, picking out some colors that give the same feeling as the original IDE.
Thank you, I really appreciate this.
Post by: Techlet on Thu, 20 August 2020, 21:16:16
Post by: CodeMayhem on Thu, 20 August 2020, 23:32:25
Post by: drudru on Sun, 23 August 2020, 17:08:13
Post by: 1391401 on Sun, 23 August 2020, 23:02:14
Post by: ggmoss on Sun, 23 August 2020, 23:25:04
how about 'lowercase+icon' for mods.
Post by: konstantin on Mon, 24 August 2020, 06:05:18
Kitting-wise, the base kit is mostly good, although there are a few things that I'd change:
- Replace R4 \| with <> in order to avoid duplicate legends. More on this here (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=90706.msg2894820#msg2894820).
- Change Num↲Lock to Num for a consistent single-line look across the board.
- The second 2.25u Shift should be Struct since that key is supposed to be a RShift.
- That being said, I think it'd be better if the LShift was Struct and the RShifts Static since struct is a more important/frequent keyword, and more often than not you're going to have a 1.75u RShift or not have it at all. Bonus: this way you get to have typedef above struct; the two are often paired together.
- Why Goto, Auto, Static and not Break, Case, Switch? When's the last time you used auto or goto in a C program? :P
- I think you could give While a more prominent role. For example, change 1.75u Shift to Switch, change 1u Char to Case, change 1.25u Goto to While, and change 1.25u Auto to Char. Or something like that.
- The right-side bottom row mods don't need to have the same legends as the left side. You could change these up to use some of the keywords that you haven't utilized yet (union, sizeof, enum, float etc.).
Post by: gilbert on Mon, 24 August 2020, 07:13:08
Post by: synmuffin on Fri, 28 August 2020, 18:25:46
Ngl, I like the lowercase mods without icons better than the current ones.
Kitting-wise, the base kit is mostly good, although there are a few things that I'd change:The 40s kit also needs work, but I'll leave that for another time.
- Replace R4 \| with <> in order to avoid duplicate legends. More on this here (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=90706.msg2894820#msg2894820).
- Change Num↲Lock to Num for a consistent single-line look across the board.
- The second 2.25u Shift should be Struct since that key is supposed to be a RShift.
- That being said, I think it'd be better if the LShift was Struct and the RShifts Static since struct is a more important/frequent keyword, and more often than not you're going to have a 1.75u RShift or not have it at all. Bonus: this way you get to have typedef above struct; the two are often paired together.
- Why Goto, Auto, Static and not Break, Case, Switch? When's the last time you used auto or goto in a C program? :P
- I think you could give While a more prominent role. For example, change 1.75u Shift to Switch, change 1u Char to Case, change 1.25u Goto to While, and change 1.25u Auto to Char. Or something like that.
- The right-side bottom row mods don't need to have the same legends as the left side. You could change these up to use some of the keywords that you haven't utilized yet (union, sizeof, enum, float etc.).
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. This is really helpful and I'm going to be making some of these changes. I may hit you up for talks about the 40s kit.
Post by: Darkzephr on Fri, 28 August 2020, 19:26:57
Post by: Vyndem on Tue, 08 September 2020, 11:23:05
Post by: Zoba on Tue, 08 September 2020, 12:02:33
Post by: synmuffin on Sat, 12 September 2020, 13:12:50
Still going to continue with the set?
Yes, I hope to. I'm reworking a few things, and have some deskmats done.
Post by: MIXO Cables on Sun, 13 September 2020, 22:56:43
Post by: Darthbaggins on Mon, 14 September 2020, 12:58:49
Post by: boyjun on Wed, 04 November 2020, 00:54:05
Post by: Hyperdimension on Fri, 13 November 2020, 09:29:22
Post by: arkze on Fri, 13 November 2020, 11:22:08
looks so good
Post by: harlekein on Fri, 13 November 2020, 13:27:18
looks like a second version of oblivion,....
It's a color scheme from a text editor. None of the keycap designers invented these. The original colors look different though.
Post by: pol139 on Fri, 13 November 2020, 18:07:31
Post by: Desperado. on Tue, 17 November 2020, 15:32:02
Post by: synmuffin on Sun, 20 December 2020, 21:28:49
this is a lot to ask, and forgive me if I sound stupid, but I know many of us would love to have this board in our programming language. Honestly, I think people would be really happy if they could buy a mod kit that had their language on it. I dont expect you to have a ton of kits, but I know I would happily pay for a kit that had Java or C++ mods. Maybe there could be a Java, Python, C or C++ mod kit? idk I am somewhat new to the GB scene so forgive me if this is totally ignorant or if it is totally impossible for you to do that. I just know that I would happily pay for that kit if it was available.
I really do like this idea, have a few different mod kits with diff keywords for different languages, not sure how feasible it is, but I am still working on this set. I hope to have updates in the beginning of 2021.
Post by: asherw on Wed, 23 December 2020, 10:55:58
Post by: koolaidpapa on Sun, 10 January 2021, 17:58:56
Post by: harlekein on Mon, 11 January 2021, 02:34:55
I feel like this is too close to oblivion. Similar style secondary red "novelty" escape key as well...
looks like a second version of oblivion,....
It's a color scheme from a text editor. None of the keycap designers invented these. The original colors look different though.
Post by: LordHaveMercy on Thu, 14 January 2021, 04:50:07
Post by: RamRanchCEO on Fri, 15 January 2021, 10:03:33
Post by: Sicowa on Fri, 15 January 2021, 18:25:40
definetley a cop for me
GLWIC
Post by: MoonOperator on Sat, 16 January 2021, 01:51:48
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Post by: hottrout on Tue, 23 February 2021, 03:59:53
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Post by: Chippy on Tue, 23 February 2021, 23:41:45
Post by: MuffPi on Wed, 21 April 2021, 12:48:44
Post by: hottrout on Thu, 22 April 2021, 05:51:20
I hope you add a NorDeUk :thumb:
+1 for that.
Post by: jackmetcalf on Thu, 22 April 2021, 07:33:43
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Post by: switchnollie on Sat, 01 May 2021, 04:17:15
Post by: Kharann on Thu, 20 May 2021, 08:51:54
Post by: RelativeChance on Wed, 22 September 2021, 02:05:39
Maybe there is some reason behind it, but I don't understand why the null is in a red box like that and not all caps.
Also huge missed opportunity for a segmentation fault keycap.
Great work though, even if you don't end up making any changes I will definitely still buy it!
Post by: vishydesigns on Fri, 24 September 2021, 22:03:04
Post by: Neely_12 on Fri, 24 September 2021, 22:11:30
I think this set has been done before, regardless, glwicWhich set is similar to this? Oblivion is compared on the IC page and it’s definitely different enough.
Post by: vishydesigns on Fri, 24 September 2021, 22:28:47
there are a lot of sets with the same color scheme, trader is one I can think of off the top of my headI think this set has been done before, regardless, glwicWhich set is similar to this? Oblivion is compared on the IC page and it’s definitely different enough.
Post by: _rubik on Sat, 25 September 2021, 00:46:27
there are a lot of sets with the same color scheme, trader is one I can think of off the top of my headI think this set has been done before, regardless, glwicWhich set is similar to this? Oblivion is compared on the IC page and it’s definitely different enough.
(https://massdrop-s3.imgix.net/product-images/drop-mito-gmk-trader-custom-keycap-set/FP/EUkVqFVS96T5gPjjmmRP_2%20-%20Compact%20Kit.png?auto=format&fm=jpg&fit=fill&w=820&h=547&bg=f0f0f0&dpr=2&q=35)(https://i.imgur.com/Ga1xyxw.jpeg)
Sorry but I don't see it. If anything Modo would be a closer comparison (and oblivion as mentioned).
Also, what does it matter if two sets are similar? Happens all the time. OP is just doing their thing and making a kit based off an editor theme a la dracula, arch, monokai, oblivion etc etc
Either way, IC seems dead
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