[IC] DSA Moonlit (Update 4/7/18)

[lordgiblite]

Hello,
This is a set that's been in the works for awhile, both in my brain and it floated around reddit a lot about a month ago.
But that wasn't enough so I bring the set here after some revamping to get the ball rolling again (and get it rolling right).


Ooooo a fancy render/teaser, courtesy of CQ_Cumbers new rendering service site kbrenders.com (I love it! Thanks!)

The inspiration for this set is two-fold, it's from a cloudy night sky in the country and off of a childhood claymation show called Wallace and Gromit where they go to the moon.

The moon is made of cheese.

A Few Things About the Set Itself

• DSA profile (I used DSA as this is my first set and the uniform profile makes compatibility easier on my end)
• Doubleshot ABS
• This set is design around compatibility but I know I may have forgotten or left out keys for some layouts (let me know what they are)

Now Let's Get Into the Kits

*All kits are continually being worked on to offer the best compatibility without making you buy a thousand different kits*

BASE SET


MODIFIER KIT


NUMPAD KIT


NON-STANDARD & ISO KIT


SPACEBAR KIT


40% & PLANCK KIT


ERGODOX KIT


ACCENT KIT


NOVELTIES



Imgur Album!! -->https://imgur.com/a/DPUgP

Render Stuffs!
**Please note these were created with the web service Kbrenders.com and some the legends got messed up, I am putting these here until I can get better renders for you!**




Currently Working On

• Matching the correct font and mold to each set, hopefully most of it is done mold-wise
• Finish Novelty Designs, original designs were not on par with what they should have been and are being re-designed from the ground up
• Creating the 100% no-longer-needs-to-be-updated kit selection to offer best price to cap ratio!

What's the Timeline?

• IC, getting any sets finalized and see if it's worth bring this to GB
• GET ALL DEM SEXY RENDERS (because you all love your renders) <--We are here (gearing up for some more full board renders of the most professional quality)
• Figure out vendor situations, get you all the most reliable way of getting the caps you paid for Done!
• Reach GB and make everyone happy
• Make everyone wait the 12 week lead time I have been provided from SP (will reconfirm this timeline prior to GB happening)
• Do all the quality stuff and start shipping the sets
• Type on my new keyset 

What's Your  Part in all  This?
So you are here to either:

• Tear me a new one and say that this set is garbage, or
• Say this still needs work but you kinda like it.

UPDATE!!! 4/7/18
The set it not dead! I have been pretty busy with life stuff, starting a new position at work and I want this set to be 100% ready for a GB so if life hits again I have all the answers and can quickly help everyone out.

• I have gotten some guaranteed novelty designs now and they are up! May get one or two depending on how I feel, but these were confirmed possible by SP
• The kits have been slightly modified, please give them a once over to see if there is anything missing (or redundant) or anything that you want to see there!
• I have plans to get higher quality renders to really show off this kit, along with making it more known in the community so that when the GB launches it will hit MOQ easily!
• There is a vendor in place, but I'm going to keep it a secret as no official GB talks have happened between us as the set has been delayed
• Keep an eye out for the next month or two as I aim to update this thread at least every other week with what's happening
• I hope to have the GB ready around June as you all might have some hurting wallets with some of the great sets being released soon (I know I'm a great guy)

[Koobaczech]

Looking great!!! - Perhaps add little dividers between the kits on imgur so its easier to pick them out brother

[ye_cole]

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think that sums it up.

[pixelpusher]

I love it.  Similar to what I had for a runner up submission to Massdrop (cool gray emphasis with yellow accent).

I personally would like to see the colors reversed just because I really like contrast on the alphas and it sets the colorway even further apart from Dolch.

Anyway... I like my colors better, but if you're going to do the legwork, I would totally buy a set 

Love me some classic colorways in DSA.  Keep up the good work.

DSA "Depth Charge" using stock SP colors:

[lordgiblite]

Looking great!!! - Perhaps add little dividers between the kits on imgur so its easier to pick them out brother

Thanks I went ahead and added the dividers and made the background a little darker (I think it looks better that way)

I love it.  Similar to what I had for a runner up submission to Massdrop (cool gray emphasis with yellow accent).

I personally would like to see the colors reversed just because I really like contrast on the alphas and it sets the colorway even further apart from Dolch.

Anyway... I like my colors better, but if you're going to do the legwork, I would totally buy a set 

Love me some classic colorways in DSA.  Keep up the good work.

DSA "Depth Charge" using stock SP colors:
(Attachment Link)

I really do enjoy your color scheme but I don't feel that it captures what inspired this set, If you every stare at the moon on a cloudy night away from all the light pollution cities and houses create this set makes a lot of sense. I have tried to take some pictures from around where I live but I simply cannot get a good picture! Also, google doesn't really have any good images either. The yellow will be an ode to the Wallace and Gromit special with it representing cheese (That will be updated as I get the novelties where I want them).

[pixelpusher]

Looking great!!! - Perhaps add little dividers between the kits on imgur so its easier to pick them out brother

Thanks I went ahead and added the dividers and made the background a little darker (I think it looks better that way)

I love it.  Similar to what I had for a runner up submission to Massdrop (cool gray emphasis with yellow accent).

I personally would like to see the colors reversed just because I really like contrast on the alphas and it sets the colorway even further apart from Dolch.

Anyway... I like my colors better, but if you're going to do the legwork, I would totally buy a set 

Love me some classic colorways in DSA.  Keep up the good work.

DSA "Depth Charge" using stock SP colors:
(Attachment Link)

I really do enjoy your color scheme but I don't feel that it captures what inspired this set, If you every stare at the moon on a cloudy night away from all the light pollution cities and houses create this set makes a lot of sense. I have tried to take some pictures from around where I live but I simply cannot get a good picture! Also, google doesn't really have any good images either. The yellow will be an ode to the Wallace and Gromit special with it representing cheese (That will be updated as I get the novelties where I want them).

are the colors gray and black, or is that a pale blue and dark gray?

[lordgiblite]

are the colors gray and black, or is that a pale blue and dark gray?

GSM for the alphas (the same in your set) and NN for the modifiers which is a dark gray/black

[pixelpusher]

This is the inspiration?

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[lordgiblite]

This is the inspiration?

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YES! Oh man do I love me some Wallace and Gromit. But it's only the inspiration for the cheese novelty cap and the yellow accents.

[wongie]

• Doubleshot ABS is the goal but I am willing to go for dye-sub PBT

Good to see that you've made progress on this since your initial drop kinda fell through, i'm still 100% behind this but that being said please stick to ABS!!

[WarmCat]

Love the colours!
Couple of opinions/ideas:
If you’re going to have a small font on your alphas, maybe try lower case, might look better.
A lot of set designers make this mistake: you have no 1.5u Meta keys. The main purpose of a key labelled “meta” is so that it is not OS-specific, however, mac and unix keyboards have the meta key closest to the spacebar (where windows users have their alt). For a good example of this look at the HHKB.
Anyhoo, not a criticism as such, it’s a great set and well done trying to cover all possibilities!

[midnightrun]

Waiting for the GB.

[lordgiblite]

• Doubleshot ABS is the goal but I am willing to go for dye-sub PBT

Good to see that you've made progress on this since your initial drop kinda fell through, i'm still 100% behind this but that being said please stick to ABS!!

I do plan on keeping ABS Double-shot unless an entire crowd of people say it's make or break for them, I really don't want to screw up the colors!

Love the colours!
Couple of opinions/ideas:
If you’re going to have a small font on your alphas, maybe try lower case, might look better.
A lot of set designers make this mistake: you have no 1.5u Meta keys. The main purpose of a key labelled “meta” is so that it is not OS-specific, however, mac and unix keyboards have the meta key closest to the spacebar (where windows users have their alt). For a good example of this look at the HHKB.
Anyhoo, not a criticism as such, it’s a great set and well done trying to cover all possibilities!

• The font size isn't what it will end up being, I'll be using the standard SP font so they will be bigger.
• Thanks for the knowledge drop on the META key, I've added 2 of them to the non-standard kit

Waiting for the GB.

Thanks 

[lordgiblite]

Let me know what you all think of the added Accent Kit. 

[aspenc4]

Looks good!


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[mudcakehoney]

Would love to see this as an SA but awesome colourway all the same

[lordgiblite]

Looks good!

Thanks

Would love to see this as an SA but awesome colourway all the same

Honestly I was initially thinking about doing this in an SA profile but 2 things stopped me.

• As my first keyset it's much easier to get a feel for how it works using a profile like DSA where it doesn't matter what row they are.
• The lead time on SA is so ridiculously long that I didn't want to make this a set that people wonder when it's coming, especially since this is my first contribution to the community and that would reflect poorly on how I actually intend to run things.

[aspenc4]

If it goes well, SA as a follow up would be pretty nice.


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[lordgiblite]

If it goes well, SA as a follow up would be pretty nice.

That was certainly an idea I was bouncing around.

[wongie]

Any chance of a 1u Ctrl and Alt being included in the non-standard kit? 65% boards with 1.25, 1.25, 1.25, 6.5, 1,1,1,1,1,1 for the bottom row are coming popular, as it stands one would need to purchase an  additional Planck kit making it a more costly proposition.

[lordgiblite]

Any chance of a 1u Ctrl and Alt being included in the non-standard kit? 65% boards with 1.25, 1.25, 1.25, 6.5, 1,1,1,1,1,1 for the bottom row are coming popular, as it stands one would need to purchase an  additional Planck kit making it a more costly proposition.

Done 
Don't know why I didn't think of that when I have a board with that layout lol

[lordgiblite]

Added Interest Form in OP or click here: https://goo.gl/forms/uZ97aTOGp3zARTqH2

Thanks for looking

[lordgiblite]

Updated the Kits, Interest Form has not yet changed to reflect new kits yet updated, and added ErogDox Kit.

[Koobaczech]

Yooo wheres the cheese ESC key at though!

[lordgiblite]

Yooo wheres the cheese ESC key at though!

It's in the works! I'm refining all the novelties from version 1 but haven't found anytime to get at Inkscape recently. I've been working a lot on the set from my laptop and for some reason it won't allow me to do anything with Inkscape lol so I'm stuck with my desktop at home (which I prefer honestly)

[Koobaczech]

Wonderful, i really liked the cheese novelty. Hey if anything at all, run a GB for it like Krelbit does for his watsers haha

[lordgiblite]

Wonderful, i really liked the cheese novelty. Hey if anything at all, run a GB for it like Krelbit does for his watsers haha

Hmmm..you give me too many ideas Koob  The novelties are starting to take shape now though! I want to include at least 4 in the renders I get hopefully in the next month.

[lordgiblite]

I know I've been afk for a little bit (sorry), been a busy month on top of the holiday stuff this last week. Updates should be coming more regularly now as they happen.

Will be getting in touch with vendors next month and getting some more renders of the set on different boards.

Thanks for looking

[aspenc4]

Gah, that render looks so good man!


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[mbljs5555]

Ahh this is the one with the cheese color keycaps... Looks really nice but haven't tried DSA profile yet!

[lordgiblite]

Gah, that render looks so good man!

I'm glad you found the render lol I didn't notice until I got to work that the images were off and I wouldn't be able to fix them until break! Glad you like it

Ahh this is the one with the cheese color keycaps... Looks really nice but haven't tried DSA profile yet!

That it is! I have DSA on my Let's Split and really enjoy the profile, it also just looks really nice. I haven't tried SA or a GMK set but have them on the way eventually. And don't forget there's always the possibility of a round 2 in a different profile 

[lordgiblite]

Added some of my renders gathered during Kbrenders.com short life span. Thank you CQ_Cumber for the service.

Hope you all enjoy the new renders!

[Kafka]

This looks dope, dsa isn't my cup of tea though.

(GMK pls)

[poolside]

Nice retro colors on that TKL render 

[Koobaczech]

That TKL looks so hot! Mann lets get this going. What's next in this project bud?

[lordgiblite]

This looks dope, dsa isn't my cup of tea though.

(GMK pls)

I have thought about making this a GMK set in all reality as when I first started making this I had very little knowledge of row profile and really how the heck to even design a set!
I plan on exploring GMK a little further as well because 1) it's a very popular profile and 2) the work that Mito has done with GMK has opened a lot of doors as far as making GMK a versatile set.

Nice retro colors on that TKL render 

Thanks  I was really happy how they turned out!

That TKL looks so hot! Mann lets get this going. What's next in this project bud?

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Thanks Koob! Next on the list is to get the list of novelties I want completely finished and then actually finish making them in lol
I hope to have more progress done in a few weeks after all the holiday stuff has died down, but I wouldn't expect much until after the first week in January because my brother's getting married and as the Best Man I can't devote all my time to this  :D

[aspenc4]

Man, that’s a bummer; I’ve wanted this set since you first setup an IC but I’m not interested in GMK.


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[wongie]

I hope to have more progress done in a few weeks after all the holiday stuff has died down, but I wouldn't expect much until after the first week in January because my brother's getting married and as the Best Man I can't devote all my time to this 

Kill two birds with one stone by designing some commemorative Moonlit wedding novelty caps to go with the set to present as a wedding present for your brother.

[lordgiblite]

Man, that’s a bummer; I’ve wanted this set since you first setup an IC but I’m not interested in GMK.


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For you I will keep it DSA, I have a special novelty just for you and I don't want all that time to go to waste!

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[trabbit]

Looks great, could you pls put yellow escape or some other yellow keys in Novelties？

[aspenc4]

Man, that’s a bummer; I’ve wanted this set since you first setup an IC but I’m not interested in GMK.


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For you I will keep it DSA, I have a special novelty just for you and I don't want all that time to go to waste!

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Do what you think is best for the set; I’ll throw my support in regardless because I really adore this color way and appreciate all of the effort you’ve put in. I’m just partial to DSA over GMK, but I’d rather see this come to fruition in any capacity my man. Can’t wait to see that novelty too, I know you’ve been at it for a while now!


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[lordgiblite]

Looks great, could you pls put yellow escape or some other yellow keys in Novelties？

The yellow escape is in the accent kit, along with the light gray

Man, that’s a bummer; I’ve wanted this set since you first setup an IC but I’m not interested in GMK.


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For you I will keep it DSA, I have a special novelty just for you and I don't want all that time to go to waste!

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Do what you think is best for the set; I’ll throw my support in regardless because I really adore this color way and appreciate all of the effort you’ve put in. I’m just partial to DSA over GMK, but I’d rather see this come to fruition in any capacity my man. Can’t wait to see that novelty too, I know you’ve been at it for a while now!


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I believe DSA is probably a good place for this set to be, that way it can be combined with DSA Starry Night if people want to mix and match! And I'd keep a look out for a few novelties showing up in January after all the holiday (and wedding) stuff dies down for me.

[swenbearswen]

Looks great, I really appreciate that the alternates kit has a 2u shift.

[swenbearswen]

Also for compatibility reasons (and my own personal bias as I'm looking for a DSA set with white on black mods) I think DSA is the best way to go.

[lordgiblite]

Looks great, I really appreciate that the alternates kit has a 2u shift.

I've really tried to get as many layouts as possible represented with the kits and still have all of them hopefully hit MOQ (that's why ISO is combined in the alt kit)
I'm glad you like it! Hoping to get this rolling close to GB in Feb/March, you know, all them tax returns lol

Also for compatibility reasons (and my own personal bias as I'm looking for a DSA set with white on black mods) I think DSA is the best way to go.

I've basically decided DSA is here to stay. It offers the easiest as far as compatibility and the lead time from SP isn't too bad (especially compared to SA!)

[SirWalross]

Would a Norde/International Kit be possible especially for an ISO-DE Layout?

[lordgiblite]

Would a Norde/International Kit be possible especially for an ISO-DE Layout?

I can certainly try, the hardest part of adding Nordic support is that that set may not be able to reach MOQ or at least a reasonable price.
If Nordic is only a few extra keys that I can throw in then that's a different story too, I will definitely take a gander at it though 

[swenbearswen]

How is this set coming? really interested in picking up some white-on-black mods for myself.

[lordgiblite]

How is this set coming? really interested in picking up some white-on-black mods for myself.

It's still going well been doing a lot of stuff on the side without updates since I've been busy changing Job positions and a wedding, and my wife and I's essential oil business had a lot come up too. So this set has had a sort of silenced update process but I've gotten novelties pretty close to being nailed down and am saving up for some really nice renders as well as gearing  up for making the set itself more known in the community. So yeah lots of stuff going on still and really glad you're interested hoping to have an official update in a few weeks with lots of new info!

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[ChrisSwires]

I'm in. That is all.

[RavenPanther]

I'm in. That is all.

Seconded.

[lordgiblite]

Hey everyone! I got an update for you!!! It's also in the main post if too if you want to stare at some of the pictures there too!

UPDATE!!! 4/7/18
The set it not dead! I have been pretty busy with life stuff, starting a new position at work and I want this set to be 100% ready for a GB so if life hits again I have all the answers and can quickly help everyone out.

• I have gotten some guaranteed novelty designs now and they are up! May get one or two depending on how I feel, but these were confirmed possible by SP
• The kits have been slightly modified, please give them a once over to see if there is anything missing (or redundant) or anything that you want to see there!
• I have plans to get higher quality renders to really show off this kit, along with making it more known in the community so that when the GB launches it will hit MOQ easily!
• There is a vendor in place, but I'm going to keep it a secret as no official GB talks have happened between us as the set has been delayed
• Keep an eye out for the next month or two as I aim to update this thread at least every other week with what's happening
• I hope to have the GB ready around June as you all might have some hurting wallets with some of the great sets being released soon (I know I'm a great guy)

I'm in. That is all.

Seconded.

Thanks you too! I'm not done with this and I will for sure be making it happen!![/list]

[HamKenobi]

You should consider making moon phase novelties. For the num row or numpad