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So we might not add an extra 6u spacebar at the time, but we will add the barred 5.
All legends including Esc will come textless.
The bottom row will look similar to this: https://gyazo.com/b178d616aba889cd5536c73b5a118c06
While I welcome the barred 5 (and I still hope for that 6u spacebar
), I would like to say that I'm not 100% sure about your decision to modify the modifiers.
Look at what's happened with Penumbra: you're considering an addon with lowercase modifiers, because no one loves the caps modifiers.
Sometimes I like to pick some keys from one set, and combine them with another set... having an icon instead of the usual "Control" could probably make the result look ugly...
At least you could probably consider the ISO symbology for modifiers?
Probably it looks like this:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995
I hate to be negative, but I feel compelled to put my two cents in as I very nearly spent $150+shipping because of what was prominently pictured on the store page is not what I would have received. You're encouraged to take it as a compliment, because if the colorways for the Miami Nights set wasn't so outstanding, I wouldn't have noticed, much less feel incredibly misled and disappointed.
I 100% agree with "Sometimes I like to pick some keys from one set, and combine them with another set... having an icon instead of the usual "Control" could probably make the result look ugly..."
I realize fully that I'm not running this GB, that what I find aesthetically pleasing does not hold for someone else, and that I'm also relatively new to this hobby. With that said, this set and how this GB has been run has been eye opening for me. I've purchased 6 sets to date over the last 18 months, and feel like I've managed to dodge some real bullets if this is how sets are commonly run...
I *almost* purchased the Miami Nights kit virtually instantly when I saw the render, but happened to do some more reading on forums where I came across a comment that made me take a closer look. I'm glad I did because I would have been pretty upset if I spent over $150+ on caps that in large part do not look like the prominently displayed high quality render on their store page.
I do not understand why a GB would start before the design is finalized.
I do not understand why a high quality render was commissioned, and placed prominently on the store page, that in large part, does not represent the finalized layout.
I do not understand why a high quality render known to not represent the actual intended layout has been left on the store page for the duration of the GB.
I do not understand why it wasn't until 3 days before the GB is scheduled to end that the person running it deigned to impart three scant lines of text and a link to a blurry image of 4 caps to vaguely describe would the finalized set would "look similar to".
To me the way this has been run feels at best disrespectful, and at worst, dishonest.
I am also troubled because this sort of thing can only hurt the expansion of a niche hobby many people clearly enjoy.