[IC] GMK White Wolf 🐺

[konstantin]

Ooo, a darker than N9 grey, that sounds perfect

I agree, that sounds pretty cool.

[Dunne]

very cooling pantone colors for the black/grey kit - keep up the progress 

[Moridin]

Still working on vendors for this set...

[sevenseacat]

DailyClack for Australia pleeeeease!

[phinix]

Imagine these with very dark red mods, like dark burgundy... dried blood.... mmm...

[phinix]

Zireael

Zireael — the novelty kit — consists of 10 light grey on dark grey novelties, which are inspired by Geralt's Signs — Aard, Axii, Quen, Igni, and Yrden. I have also added the novelties from the core kit in a reversed colourway — dark greys on light grey keys — and included two coloured sets. The latter consist of two R1 novelty keys each (signifying the ladies' symbols), arrows, and Enter keys. The colours are inspired by Ciri's and Yennefer's eyes. Finally, there are some new text novelties, including R1 1u "Hmm", R1 2u "****", and R3 1.5u "Roach". The regular Enter key should be light grey, not white (render error).

Version 3 — "Dots" Design

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Version 4 — "Circle" Design

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— Witcher Signs are made using the casters fingers, which the dots/circles are meant to represent.
— The lines connect the dots/circles, suggesting how a specific Sign is cast.
— The dots are also a tribute to mechanical keyboards (PCB holes specifically).
— The dots/circles could are also slightly reminiscent of constellations, hence trying to forge a connection with the stars, and magic in turn.
— The spaces between the dots/circles and lines are also in line with that Sword novelty.

Since I have proposed 2 slightly different designs (I am partial to one of them!), I would love to hear some feedback from you guys. Please take part in this new poll and vote for your favourite design:

GMK White Wolf Zireael Novelty Design Poll

I picked dots, but I think you mixed the images, as dots (filled circles) are circles and other way around )

[Moridin]

I picked dots, but I think you mixed the images, as dots (filled circles) are circles and other way around )

We had this topic on the Discord channel and I actually didn't. My reasoning behind the names was logical until someone pointed it out to me. Anyway, I'd need a large bottle of whiskey and a long night to explain it, but "dots" are ones with the holes and "circles" are filled. You're better off not knowing... 😂

BTW: Poll showed an overwhelming vote for Version 4 (filled in, without the holes) – over 75%. Render below.

[phinix]

Well, in this case it doesn't matter as my preferred option won

[stein3]

Well, in this case it doesn't matter as my preferred option won

Same. I couldn't unsee PCB traces in the open version.

[Moridin]

Well, in this case it doesn't matter as my preferred option won

Same. I couldn't unsee PCB traces in the open version.

That's what they were meant to signify! 🙂 But I'm happy too... 🙃

[Pluto19]

Interested to see the final renders

[Bobatype]

I'm going to have to get this just for the '****' and Hmmm novelty text keys 

[Lord_Rabel]

Personally I liked the first Witcher signs more. Those "Hand movements" aren't so nice in my opinion. But it is a great set nonetheless. Deskpad?!

[Moridin]

I added two new renders, showing off the set on an e-white 7V, using the same angle as before with the grey 7V, but showing off the Sihill Kit (alt alphas) as well as Ciri's and Yen's novelties.

[Rilow]

NorDe kit please

[alper_maestro]

I added two new renders, showing off the set on an e-white 7V, using the same angle as before with the grey 7V, but showing off the Sihill Kit (alt alphas) as well as Ciri's and Yen's novelties.

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Hi, where is the picture/render of the Sihill — the Alternative (Silver) Alphas Kit? I don't see it at the first page.

[Moridin]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

[alper_maestro]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

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Thanks again for sharing, maybe I was blind

Which color-code will be used for 'silver' ?

[Moridin]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

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Thanks again for sharing, maybe i was blind

Which color-code will be used for 'silver' ?

I'm using GMK 2M at this point but will pair it with an appropriate RAL or Pantone (currently preferring Pantone) shade I have in mind.

[alper_maestro]

Nice, hopefully the GB will start off in September 

[BapoDonu]

2nd B ?

[Moridin]

2nd B ?

Possible.

[Maniac]

NorDe kit please

+1

[TheDetweiler]

This looks lovely, I'm a big witcher fan so im pretty excited for this one. I too hope the gb starts in September. 

[Lord_Rabel]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

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What's with numpad support?

[Moridin]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

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What's with numpad support?

I would prefer to lower the price of the alt alphas and drop the light grey numpad but open to persuasion.

[Lord_Rabel]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

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What's with numpad support?

I would prefer to lower the price of the alt alphas and drop the light grey numpad but open to persuasion.

I really would like to have the light grey numpad keys. Maybe make a separate kit with the 13 keys or so, but a 1800 board wouldn't look good with the accent keys only on the left :/

[alper_maestro]

Don't drop the numpad.

[Maniac]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

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What's with numpad support?

I would prefer to lower the price of the alt alphas and drop the light grey numpad but open to persuasion.

I really would like to have the light grey numpad keys. Maybe make a separate kit with the 13 keys or so, but a 1800 board wouldn't look good with the accent keys only on the left :/

+1
Perhaps make the dark mods/light-alphas the base kit (with numpad) and all dark alphas\numpad as separate kits?

[Lord_Rabel]

It should be somewhere in the first post.

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What's with numpad support?

I would prefer to lower the price of the alt alphas and drop the light grey numpad but open to persuasion.

I really would like to have the light grey numpad keys. Maybe make a separate kit with the 13 keys or so, but a 1800 board wouldn't look good with the accent keys only on the left :/

+1
Perhaps make the dark mods/light-alphas the base kit (with numpad) and all dark alphas\numpad as separate kits?

I'm into that idea

[Tyson]

I added two new renders, showing off the set on an e-white 7V, using the same angle as before with the grey 7V, but showing off the Sihill Kit (alt alphas) as well as Ciri's and Yen's novelties.

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These look awesome, is the set going to be icon mods now? I thought you were going to do text mods only for the set?

[Maniac]

I added two new renders, showing off the set on an e-white 7V, using the same angle as before with the grey 7V, but showing off the Sihill Kit (alt alphas) as well as Ciri's and Yen's novelties.

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These look awesome, is the set going to be icon mods now? I thought you were going to do text mods only for the set?

Those are part of the Novelties kit

[Tyson]

I added two new renders, showing off the set on an e-white 7V, using the same angle as before with the grey 7V, but showing off the Sihill Kit (alt alphas) as well as Ciri's and Yen's novelties.

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These look awesome, is the set going to be icon mods now? I thought you were going to do text mods only for the set?

Those are part of the Novelties kit

The shift and backspace are definitely not part of the novelty kit.

[JoltFX]

I added two new renders, showing off the set on an e-white 7V, using the same angle as before with the grey 7V, but showing off the Sihill Kit (alt alphas) as well as Ciri's and Yen's novelties.

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These look awesome, is the set going to be icon mods now? I thought you were going to do text mods only for the set?

Those are part of the Novelties kit

The shift and backspace are definitely not part of the novelty kit.

How come? They clearly don’t say Shift or Backspace on them.

[Moridin]

I added two new renders, showing off the set on an e-white 7V, using the same angle as before with the grey 7V, but showing off the Sihill Kit (alt alphas) as well as Ciri's and Yen's novelties.

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These look awesome, is the set going to be icon mods now? I thought you were going to do text mods only for the set?

Those are part of the Novelties kit

The shift and backspace are definitely not part of the novelty kit.

How come? They clearly don’t say Shift or Backspace on them.

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There will be text mods. The renders was just a colour-swap of one of the first renders to showcase colours + alt alphas. More news coming soon — working behind the scenes to get this GB going ASAP.

[Krazzios]

There will be text mods. The renders was just a colour-swap of one of the first renders to showcase colours + alt alphas. More news coming soon — working behind the scenes to get this GB going ASAP.

Not sure I like that. Keep in mind that the responses you've gotten so far has been with the previous renders in mind. Changing something as fundamental as mods just before going to GB is pretty weird.

[stein3]

There will be text mods. The renders was just a colour-swap of one of the first renders to showcase colours + alt alphas. More news coming soon — working behind the scenes to get this GB going ASAP.

Not sure I like that. Keep in mind that the responses you've gotten so far has been with the previous renders in mind. Changing something as fundamental as mods just before going to GB is pretty weird.

I see text mods in the first post?

[Krazzios]

I see text mods in the first post?

Yeah, you're right. I must have skimmed past it.

[Moridin]

There will be text mods. The renders was just a colour-swap of one of the first renders to showcase colours + alt alphas. More news coming soon — working behind the scenes to get this GB going ASAP.

Not sure I like that. Keep in mind that the responses you've gotten so far has been with the previous renders in mind. Changing something as fundamental as mods just before going to GB is pretty weird.

Text mods were suggested by the majority early on in the IC phase, and the set was switched over to those back then. Sorry about the render — Abec was swamped and I didn't want to give him more work to switch those over for these renders.

More news soon.

[diyachronic]

Loving how this is shaping up. Thanks for your stellar communication throughout while maintaining a consistent vision for the set. I can guarantee I won't have the willpower to avoid this groupbuy.
Only one thing bugs me - I've seen it mentioned and answered previously, so sorry for being annoying, but I wanted to second/third the sentiment:

Any way we could work in a second sword on one of the shift/backspace keys thru a novelty kit? I thought for sure the Sihil novelties would have a second 2.25u sword keycap or something, but no luck.

The dichotomy of two swords for two evils (and the ambiguity therein) represents a core theme of the books that I would love to see represented in this set.

[Pluto19]

Text mods were suggested by the majority early on in the IC phase, and the set was switched over to those back then.

Any data on this showing the majority preference on text mods?

[Moridin]

Any way we could work in a second sword on one of the shift/backspace keys thru a novelty kit? I thought for sure the Sihil novelties would have a second 2.25u sword keycap or something, but no luck.

The dichotomy of two swords for two evils (and the ambiguity therein) represents a core theme of the books that I would love to see represented in this set.

The problem I have with adding another sword... it means that people will want it accented as well, and we have 3 different accent colours, so that's a big price increase. I could drop the sword from the Enter key and move it to the Shift keys instead, but (1) I don't really like that style and (2) GMK Red Samurai has done this already (IIRC).

Currently reworking the kits to make them more affordable; let me think on this.

ISO Enters are making things horribly complicated at the moment...

[konstantin]

(2) GMK Red Samurai has done this already (IIRC)

So what? Red Sam had clouds, not swords. And just because a set did a certain kind of accents doesn't mean that other sets can't do something similar. For example, Yugo was the first set to do front-printed space novelties (afaik). Does that mean that other sets can't do the same? No it doesn't.

Personally, I'd love to see both swords on the Shifts.

[manzel]

The problem with having swords on Shift is that you need it in various sizes. And if you only offer 2.25u/2.75u most people would end up with only one sword anyway. Using 2.75u Shift is just wrong (imho) and ISO users would also only have one sword key. Thus, having that one sword on Enter makes more sense, I think.
Of course, you could have a 1.75u sword as well, but on 1.25u you could only fit a dagger at most. And this leads to even more keys and costs.

[konstantin]

The problem with having swords on Shift is that you need it in various sizes. And if you only offer 2.25u/2.75u most people would end up with only one sword anyway. Using 2.75u Shift is just wrong (imho) and ISO users would also only have one sword key. Thus, having that one sword on Enter makes more sense, I think.
Of course, you could have a 1.75u sword as well, but on 1.25u you could only fit a dagger at most. And this leads to even more keys and costs.

Having swords on 3 Shifts (2.25u, 1.75u, 2.75u) is pretty reasonable, imo. But it's not up to me.

[Pluto19]

So... no text mod data?

So what? Red Sam had clouds, not swords. And just because a set did a certain kind of accents doesn't mean that other sets can't do something similar. For example, Yugo was the first set to do front-printed space novelties (afaik). Does that mean that other sets can't do the same? No it doesn't.

Personally, I'd love to see both swords on the Shifts.

Not sure if it's the first set to do front-printed spacebar novelties, but KA2018 gotcha beat there

[konstantin]

Not sure if it's the first set to do front-printed spacebar novelties, but KA2018 gotcha beat there

Thanks! I figured there had to be some obscure set that I wasn't aware of out there that did it first. Also, what even is this 😂

[Pluto19]

Thanks! I figured there had to be some obscure set that I wasn't aware of out there that did it first. Also, what even is this 😂

Dude, you ain't about Valentine's Day keysets!? C'mooon lol ;p

P.S. KA2017 and KA2019 big cute

[Moridin]

I am proud to announce that we have a final list of vendors for GMK White Wolf 🐺...

• USA → Dixie Mech
• EU → MyKeyboard.eu
• Oceania → DailyClack
• Asia → ILUMKB

The group buy for GMK White Wolf 🐺 will commence on September 4th and end on October 2nd. Stay tuned for more news, coming soon to a tavern near you.

[sevenseacat]

Oh boy this month is going to be huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge I'm excited