Xin chào,
Welcome to the official interest check of GMK First Love, a dark theme, purple set by I and
biip!
Updates8/25/2019: Update Vendor and pricing. Final kits were posted in the thread.
GMK FIRST LOVE WILL LAUNCH ON SEPTEMBER 1ST!!!!!. Since its a remembrance of a memory of mine, there will only be one single round for good. Please help me making it possible. Both Upas and I did our best to make pricing the most affordable to everyone starting at
$129.99 per base kit for 250 MOQ! First day (24-hours) group buy backer will be eligible for a First Love Keypora raffle by AlphaKeycaps. Yohans and I are working on the final mockup. Should be here anytime soon.
Much love, and see you all at launch <2 Wake me up, when September ends...- Base (MOQ 250). $129.99
- Novelties (MOQ 150). $45.99
- Spacebar (MOQ 100). $25.99
- Base (MOQ 250). €
- Novelties (MOQ 150). €
- Spacebar (MOQ 100). €
- Base (MOQ 250). $194 SGD (~$140 USD)
- Novelties (MOQ 150). $68.5 SGD (~$50 USD)
- Spacebar (MOQ 100). $39 SGD (~$29 USD)
New RenderTGR-910 RE
Artisan UpdateMockup of Keypora by AlphaKeycaps: Final draft is currently in the work. Should be here anytime soon
6/28/2019: Update deskmat and banderole box art (front and back).
6/26/2019: The following updates were made. Huge thanks to
biip for all the suggestions on kit revision.
- Revise novelties kit. Adding additional 1u R1 novelties and text novelties. Duplicate thorns novelties to 1.25U for consistency.
- Change text + icon mods to icon mods + text mods bottom row. Update renders.
- Change 1U R4 "Super" to "Code". I think "Code" just looks nice and more balance given the small footprint of the 1U key.
- Changing "Num Lock" to "Num" for 1 line consistency with icon mods.
- Adding 1U R1 Fn and 1U R1 Code to base kit. This should cover split backspace TKL user and F13 key for TGR-Jane v2 CE.
- Adding extra B to base kit. This should cover TGR-Alice user.
- Revise on colors. I've decided to not go with the stock black CR from GMK and used a custom Pantone color instead. The stock CR is just too black to my liking and does not give off that muted effect that I was hoping to achieve. Physical color swatches already ordered. Update rendered color swatches.
- Update on artisan collaboration. I am happy to announce that AlphaKeycaps and Rama will be collaborating on this project.
- Update on target launch date and vendor. The set will launch on September at Canonkeys.com. Other proxy still TBD.
4/28/2019: Added poll for suggestion.
AboutThe inspiration of this set was from, well, my first love. I've known her since we were five, went to the same school and grew up together. We were crazy about each other at one point during high school, so we started dating. Senior year, college came around the corner and it just did not work out. I remember it was bittersweet, fun and heartbroken at the same time. So much time, so many memories and so many relationships have passed, but I still think of her from time to time. Her favorite color has always been purple, and for so long despite my original indifference to that color, it has become a part of me now. I hope this set will remind you of all the purest feelings and emotions you've ever had in your life! And yes, that include those nights getting wasted with your best buddy in the back of an old bar that smells like wet clothing with a big bottle of scotch trying to get over that one person you fall madly in love with!
DesignThe main color theme of the set will be dark purple on black, with a tint of lilac purple. The set will use
custom color on all three colors. The novelties pack was designed by our man
biip. The aesthestic of his iconic approach is just so clean and sharp. The man is such a blessing to our community!
Kits
RendersSpecial thanks to
Oblotzky and
Janglad for all these amazing renders.
TGR-910 REChimera65 by CanonKeys
Keycult No.1/65
Rama M60A
Andromeda
TGR-Jane V2
Deskmat and BanderoleBeautiful work done by Adil.
Special ThanksI would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to these following people for their unconditional commitment in this project and for helping me bringing this to you.
- Kathryn - for always being a loving girlfriend back then and an awesome friend today.
- Yuktsi - <3 senpai for teaching me so many things and inspiring me in keyset design.
- biip - for your tremendous amount of help in this project - from kit revision, layout suggestion and advice for some minor tweaking to get the right color. This set will nowhere be near where it is today without you!
- Oblotzky - for your amazing quality of renders work. This set will nowhere be near where it is today without you!
- Enjoy - for putting up with the original idea and pushing me to pull it through (bro-love #1 <3)
- maltedsoyamilk - for all the valuable kit feedback and suggestion. It was awesome to have a brother like you in every step along the way in this hobby (bro-love #2 <3)
- Upas - for all the feedback and suggestion. Cannonkeys will be the NA vendor for this set. Other proxies are in discussion. (bro-love #3 <3)
- JthaDestroyer - for always being my best friend and for all the good times we've had in this hobby together (bro-love #4 <3)
- Emir - for the Icon Mods fiasco
- Adil - good job son. Daddy proud of you
CollaborationI am happy to announce that Rama and AlphaKeycaps will be the prospective collaborators with this project. More updates will be posted along the way.
- AlphaKeycaps
- Rama
Esc 1U R1 purple aluminum with lilac purple enamel filling artisan keycap
Vendor- US: Canonkeys
- EU: CandyKeys
- Asia: TBD
- Singapore: iLumKB
Future Work- Update pictures from artisan makers.
- Update on vendors.
- Getting final quote from GMK.
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