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Offline Oblotzky

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[GB] GMK Monokai Material - Fulfilling by vendors
« on: Fri, 04 September 2020, 11:31:24 »
What?




No1.60 Rev1 by Keycult




No2 Rev1 WKL by Keycult




Sar by Zambumon




Kei by Monokei




Where?
EU: https://oblotzky.industries/products/gmk-monokai-material
US: https://novelkeys.xyz/collections/frontpage/products/gmk-monokai-gb
CAN: https://www.deskhero.ca/products/gmk-monokai-material
AUS: https://dailyclack.com/collections/group-buys/products/gmk-monokai-material
SEA: https://monokei.co/products/gmk-monokai-material
CN: http://www.zfrontier.com/mch/ozm7APGnDVKl

Costs?
See vendor pages, but like 129€/135$.

When?
Group buy is open now until October 4th 2020. Ships from GMK 32 Weeks after GB closes, so around end of May. Add a few weeks for delays and inter-continental airfreight & importing for most vendors.

Collabs?
None. I opted not to create a RAMA cap, at least not for this round. Matching both ABS plastic and anodized aluminium independent from each other based on a RAL scares me too much. Instead I hope to make one in a possible future round where I have the ABS on hand which can be used by the RAMA cap manufacturer to match against, giving us a better match.

Why?
idk
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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 04 September 2020, 12:47:08 »
what's the base color?

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 04 September 2020, 12:48:05 »
I kinda regret getting Oblivion now because I like this a lot more.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 04 September 2020, 13:11:02 »
Anyone want anything thing else in the extension kit that isn't a 2.25u/2.75u space key? Looking to split.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 04 September 2020, 13:15:23 »
Are these all custom colors?


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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 04 September 2020, 15:24:13 »
what's the base color?

Are these all custom colors?

From IC: The colors will be matched to RAL tones. I will pursue having the base color matched and finalized before the launch of the group buy as this color is vital for the set to come out great. The RAL's I am currently eyeing for this are Stahlblau and Tiefseeblau.

Oblotzky said samples for base color are not ready yet.

hopefully, we get to see some samples before the end of the GB.
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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 04 September 2020, 20:36:30 »
I like it, for me this is the most minimal I personally can go.
Really like the Git caps, will fit perfectly on my new programming build for the office.
Probably will pick this one up.
What is the base color though? It's an light-black ?

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 06 September 2020, 14:41:14 »
Sad when base kit does not include 2u Shift and extra 2.25u Shift as IC so I can't fill up my 660M. And 200$ just for extra 2.25u Shift is some kind of ...

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 10 September 2020, 11:01:41 »
Anything on when you will have color samples?

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 16 September 2020, 21:25:01 »
Anything on when you will have color samples?

After the GB ends.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 18 September 2020, 07:53:48 »
Doesn't Monokai have a brown-ish background, why do you use navy as the base color?

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 18 September 2020, 09:40:23 »
Doesn't Monokai have a brown-ish background, why do you use navy as the base color?

Because this is Monokai Material, not Monokai ;)

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #12 on: Sat, 03 October 2020, 16:10:00 »
Last 24'ish hours!

Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #13 on: Thu, 12 August 2021, 10:26:08 »
Any updates on this? Thanks.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #14 on: Sun, 15 August 2021, 10:18:35 »
Any updates on this? Thanks.

Currently waiting on color samples, there's a new batch of samples being made end of next month IIRC, for multiple sets. Chronologically, we would be behind schedule either way, as there's still a few sets that I ran that are coming first still (Boneyard, Redacted, Nuclear Data, Beta & JS), not to mention other vendors sets having run before this one.

I would guesstimate Q1 2022 shipping.

Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - LIVE until October 4th 2020
« Reply #15 on: Sun, 15 August 2021, 18:16:51 »
Any updates on this? Thanks.

Currently waiting on color samples, there's a new batch of samples being made end of next month IIRC, for multiple sets. Chronologically, we would be behind schedule either way, as there's still a few sets that I ran that are coming first still (Boneyard, Redacted, Nuclear Data, Beta & JS), not to mention other vendors sets having run before this one.

I would guesstimate Q1 2022 shipping.

Ah I see. In my list of what I'm waiting for I have it after Modo Light, so that's why I thought it might have been soon, but my list is obviously quite small compared to the sets that ran that I didn't take part in.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Waiting for Production
« Reply #16 on: Sun, 29 August 2021, 12:07:47 »
Did this groupbuy end? It looks like there are still some Base kits available from AUS Vendors... I live in the US and trying to check if there was any base kits left from Novelkeys but their website is down until 09/03.!!! I really want this base kit please!

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Waiting for Production
« Reply #17 on: Sun, 29 August 2021, 12:33:09 »
Did this groupbuy end? It looks like there are still some Base kits available from AUS Vendors... I live in the US and trying to check if there was any base kits left from Novelkeys but their website is down until 09/03.!!! I really want this base kit please!
This groupbuy ended, yes.
I assume you meant DailyClack? Then yes, they do pre-order for extras kits.
Novelkeys do that usually once all the GB orders are shipped, but it's not guaranteed nor there's info whether they do extras for a certain keyset (e.g this one) or not.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Waiting for Production
« Reply #18 on: Sun, 05 September 2021, 00:34:33 »
what happened to the vendor for US, Novelkeys? they are not doing it anymore. I guess that means that they don't have any leftovers? Dailycrack still got some but the shipping is a little high

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Waiting for Production
« Reply #19 on: Sun, 05 September 2021, 03:32:37 »
what happened to the vendor for US, Novelkeys? they are not doing it anymore. I guess that means that they don't have any leftovers? Dailycrack still got some but the shipping is a little high

The group buy closed a while ago. Not all vendors do pre-orders, which is essentially pre-selling extras. NovelKeys sells their extras when they have received the entire order from GMK.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Waiting for Production
« Reply #20 on: Wed, 16 February 2022, 04:44:46 »


We are currently 5/7 Colors done matching. Orange and Violet are going through another round, both colors are not vibrant enough yet, Orange is a bit washed out and Violet is basically Lavender.

I was starting to get really anxious about the base color, wasn't happy with any of the samples I had received so far, they were too blue so more like deep navy rather than dark gray with a blue note. Not really GMK's fault as there wasn't a pantone/ral that matched it closely enough (that's what you get for being stupid and making a set based on an IDE theme that had its colors chosen freely from ~16.8 million available HEX values). But luckily, I found that one of the discarded Dracula modifier colors was a perfect match! So thanks pikku, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Once the remaining two colors are approved, we would go into production pretty soon after.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Waiting for Production - 5/7 Colors approved
« Reply #21 on: Wed, 16 February 2022, 12:46:18 »
thx for update. glad its in good hands

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Waiting for Production
« Reply #22 on: Wed, 16 February 2022, 19:36:57 »
But luckily, I found that one of the discarded Dracula modifier colors was a perfect match! So thanks pikku, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Very nice.

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Did all the colors match?

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Any updates?

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There’s been some updates on discord, and fortunately I’m not too busy taking peoples keycap money so I’ll summarize it.

One color (violet) left. A different supplier that does more neon colors was contacted by GMK, they have sent something to GMK. This color apparently doesn’t have a corresponding color standard like RAL so it’s taken a while.

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There’s been some updates on discord, and fortunately I’m not too busy taking peoples keycap money so I’ll summarize it.

One color (violet) left. A different supplier that does more neon colors was contacted by GMK, they have sent something to GMK. This color apparently doesn’t have a corresponding color standard like RAL so it’s taken a while.

Which discord? I can't keep up with all the different Discord servers popping up. Would appreciate it if designers keep GH up-to-date too.
Thanks for sharing!

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Oblotzky’s discord

At least here there’s an update this year. Plenty of threads don’t even have that.

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About two weeks ago I gave GMK the green light to order all material as I was finally happy with the new Violet I received during my trip out to them. From that point, it takes about 6 weeks for the material to arrive, with another 6 weeks for production and sorting. As two weeks have already passed, we are now roughly 10 weeks from the set shipping out from GMK if all goes well.

Sorry for the color matching to take so long, the Violet color space is poorly covered in both RAL and Pantone so it took quite a bit of back and forth with the color supplier to get it to this point. Purples and Lavenders are plenty in both color systems, but not Violet.

Here's the final samples:

« Last Edit: Wed, 13 July 2022, 16:30:04 by Oblotzky »

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - 7/7 Colors approved - Material ordered
« Reply #29 on: Wed, 13 July 2022, 23:30:09 »
Brilliant work!  :thumb:

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About two weeks ago I gave GMK the green light to order all material as I was finally happy with the new Violet I received during my trip out to them. From that point, it takes about 6 weeks for the material to arrive, with another 6 weeks for production and sorting. As two weeks have already passed, we are now roughly 10 weeks from the set shipping out from GMK if all goes well.

Sorry for the color matching to take so long, the Violet color space is poorly covered in both RAL and Pantone so it took quite a bit of back and forth with the color supplier to get it to this point. Purples and Lavenders are plenty in both color systems, but not Violet.

Here's the final samples:

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - 7/7 Colors approved - Material ordered
« Reply #31 on: Tue, 26 July 2022, 14:03:18 »
Very vibrant colors, looking good

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - 7/7 Colors approved - Material ordered
« Reply #32 on: Thu, 01 September 2022, 12:15:54 »
Currently in production.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - 7/7 Colors approved - In Production
« Reply #33 on: Thu, 06 October 2022, 15:31:35 »
ETA November.

Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - 7/7 Colors approved - In Production
« Reply #34 on: Tue, 11 October 2022, 20:12:26 »
I might be hallucinating/misremembering this from way back when this GB thread was on Reddit, but if you did indeed say you'd consider a round with non-Git mods I would totally be in for that.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - 7/7 Colors approved - In Production
« Reply #35 on: Thu, 27 October 2022, 17:05:31 »
I might be hallucinating/misremembering this from way back when this GB thread was on Reddit, but if you did indeed say you'd consider a round with non-Git mods I would totally be in for that.

Will likely happen in the next round. Hopefully extras sale will give me an indication of how much demand there is for another round so I can evaluate if I can go for two base kits (Regular + Git + International kit would probably be the setup I'd go for in R2).

In other news, the set finished and is being packed up now, expected to leave the GMK warehouse in 2 weeks.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Packing up at GMK
« Reply #36 on: Sun, 30 October 2022, 09:16:29 »
Sad to have missed this round, I absolutely adore monokai.

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Packing up at GMK
« Reply #37 on: Wed, 07 December 2022, 05:07:43 »
Set is done!

Sad to have missed this round, I absolutely adore monokai.

Extras are live with many vendors already :)

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - Fulfilling by vendors
« Reply #38 on: Wed, 07 December 2022, 05:15:57 »
mine did not even shipped yet, Novelkeys👍

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Re: [GB] GMK Monokai Material - 7/7 Colors approved - In Production
« Reply #39 on: Wed, 12 April 2023, 23:55:59 »
I might be hallucinating/misremembering this from way back when this GB thread was on Reddit, but if you did indeed say you'd consider a round with non-Git mods I would totally be in for that.

Will likely happen in the next round. Hopefully extras sale will give me an indication of how much demand there is for another round so I can evaluate if I can go for two base kits (Regular + Git + International kit would probably be the setup I'd go for in R2).

In other news, the set finished and is being packed up now, expected to leave the GMK warehouse in 2 weeks.

Love this set but would love a regular base kit even more. Can’t wait!