With the GID nightwalker Solaris switches and UV LEDs installed:
Is that with RGB underglow LEDs on as well?
Damn that's dedication to the theme to install UV LEDs to the PCB.
I'm tempted to get Solaris switches, but I can't be bothered with the effort to expose them to the lighting required to show off the hint of the glow in the dark between keycaps.
Not RGB underglow, in-switch UV LED's, soldered. Here's some more close-ups:
I have another board (the 7V) that has green in-switch LED's which might actually look better than this. I'll post another photo when i get around to mounting the caps on that board. Might do a video on it because I even went so far as to program special lighting effects for this exact purpose... so yeah, dedication to the theme for sure lol
Edit// My opinion nobody asked for: I'm actually a little disappointed in the contrast / boldness of the colors on these caps. They really only pop if you have underglow/lighting effects of some kind. In standard indoor lighting environment they are very dull and hard to read. With underglow, the light bleed through the black color is very noticeable. You can tell in my photos the glow shines right through it, and the light doesn't distribute particularly well to the upper portion of the caps so the sublegents are quite a bit brighter than the primary legends. I tried with the standard alphas and it wasn't any better, and the dayglow alphas were probably the worst of all (although some might prefer their overwhelming appearance). I was kind of hoping for a more opaque / high-contrast look, like what you get with shine-thru doubleshot caps. Also the green coloration on the legends does nothing but make the contrast worse - should have just exposed the raw for most of the legends IMO. I regret not buying the raw alphas- would definitely trade dayglow for raw if anyone wants.
But all-in-all, the theme and typeface is still really beautiful and i don't regret going in on it... but in the future I will be avoiding any reverse dye-sub GID.
