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[IC] MW Voynich
« on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:14:22 »
MW Voynich

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An elegant set based on the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

I have always found the Voynich Manuscript to be a fascinating document. Regardless of its questioned authenticity, this document dates back to the 15th century and has long been a topic of discussion for its art, unknown origins, and cryptographic puzzle. If you're interested in learning more, I highly recommend The Histocrat's The Voynich Manuscript video

This set utilizes the Voynich 101 (V101) font developed by Glenn Claston, allowed under Public Domain usage. Given that the Voynich Manuscript has never been deciphered or translated (if it can be), further liberties were taken on certain characters (not necessarily mapped 1:1 to its ASCII Latin counterpart) for either aesthetic or functional reasons (such as overlapping on homing bumps).



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Pricing
proxy pricing coming soon
Voynich Sublegend Alphas $38
Voynich Monolegend Alphas $38
Icon Mods $40
Voynich Mods $40
Novelty Mods $40
Spacebars $16
Novelty Spacebars $20
Numpad $20



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DD-40 by dededecline


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J-01 by Jae


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TGR Jane V2 CE by Yuktsi



Colors

All colors have been pre-selected from the Pantone Uncoated color range. All renders have been made to reflect these colors, and the set will be color matched to the Pantones selected.



Collabs

Deskmats
OneCreativeMind


Jnlybean


Artisans
dreadkeys
GSK
Nightcaps
Win Keys
Doohickeys
Yu Keys
Della Key
Lividity Caps
Deag Caps
BKM Keycaps



Vendors
United States: Cannon Keys
Canada: KanataKeys
EU: MyKeyboard.eu
UK: Prototypist
SEA: Hex Keyboards
Oceania: Daily Clack
China: Milky Way
India: Rectangles.store



Thanks to
OneCreativeMind, Olivia, Jnlybean, my collaborators, and everyone that provided feedback during the development of this set
« Last Edit: Mon, 21 March 2022, 10:56:29 by dededecline »

Offline OJtheTiny

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:16:21 »
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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:17:21 »
let's fuggin goooooooooo

Offline dingusxmcgee

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:17:55 »
Nice

Offline paperassgasket

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:22:24 »
Yeah good set, great kitting, fantastic use of dye sub, and props for taking advantage of MW.
Obligatory "my wallet" comment.

Offline nFaiz

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:24:42 »
yes dede another banger

Offline andromache

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:26:51 »
I am obsessed with this. Definitely in for Voynich mono alphas + novelty mods!! This might suddenly be one of the sets I'm most excited for in 2022.

Offline white_rabbit

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:31:25 »
Looks gorgeous, as does the DD-40  ;D

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:40:08 »
squiggles good

Offline DaaDaa

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 19:47:20 »
What a lovely set. I'm onboard. The kitting seems pretty good to me to and possibly the most extensive and elaborate set of novelties ive ever seen. ill join day 1
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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 20:03:08 »
Oh man I love everything about this set, so much so that I made an account just to leave this comment. The community needs more creative sets like this. Props for going with MW as well. Can’t wait!

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 20:59:32 »
looks amazing, probably going to be a while before this can run because of mw queue system, regardless, im def in!

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 21:40:38 »
looks amazing, probably going to be a while before this can run because of mw queue system, regardless, im def in!

This set has been in the works for a few months, I confirmed the February GB date a few months ago  :D

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 23:22:26 »
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Yeah good set, great kitting, fantastic use of dye sub, and props for taking advantage of MW.
Obligatory "my wallet" comment.

What a lovely set. I'm onboard. The kitting seems pretty good to me to and possibly the most extensive and elaborate set of novelties ive ever seen. ill join day 1

yes dede another banger

looks amazing, probably going to be a while before this can run because of mw queue system, regardless, im def in!

Looks gorgeous, as does the DD-40  ;D

I am obsessed with this. Definitely in for Voynich mono alphas + novelty mods!! This might suddenly be one of the sets I'm most excited for in 2022.

Oh man I love everything about this set, so much so that I made an account just to leave this comment. The community needs more creative sets like this. Props for going with MW as well. Can’t wait!

Thank you all for the kind words!

Offline Ciantha

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 21 December 2021, 23:50:18 »
I was gonna be done with keycaps unless something extraordinary appeared.
Good job on creating something extraordinarily beautiful!

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #15 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 00:07:36 »
I was gonna be done with keycaps unless something extraordinary appeared.
Good job on creating something extraordinarily beautiful!

in the same boat, especially with newer manus but these are hot. may actually buy

Offline Mr Chrome

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #16 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 06:01:36 »
Well, !@#$&*

The novelty mods are pure art too.
“This plastic rectangle is alright. The plastic rectangles on top of it, though...”

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #17 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 06:23:30 »
Can we have a 2nd base kit with the alpha voynich sublegend plus the novelty mods?

Offline dededecline

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #18 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 07:14:17 »
Can we have a 2nd base kit with the alpha voynich sublegend plus the novelty mods?
I will be taking a look at the IC form responses to finalize the alpha and mod kitting but likely not. I suspect that will be a less popular combination, I do not want to create too many base/alpha/mod kits, and this should be a fairly affordable set as-is even if you buy base + novelty mods.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #19 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 08:21:18 »
Those novelty mods are just too good looking, what the heck.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #20 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 08:37:45 »
This will surely be one of the best sets in 2022. Very nice novelties. :thumb:

Any chance for a NorDE Kit with tertiary legends and Alt Gr Keys?

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #21 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 08:44:56 »
This will surely be one of the best sets in 2022. Very nice novelties. :thumb:

Any chance for a NorDE Kit with tertiary legends and Alt Gr Keys?

I had decided against such a kit for a couple of reasons:

1. the complexity, aesthetic, and issues from trying to place the tertiary (and on some keys quaternary) legends required for this set to have a NorDE kit
2. the existence of the mono voynich alphas serve as a kind of agnostic alpha set such that language configurations not explicitly supported here are at least not forced to use literally incorrect keys

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #22 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 08:53:54 »
Looks fantastic. Nicely done!

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #23 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 09:07:27 »
very cool set! Great inspiration - I first heard of the Voynich manuscript in the Adam Curtis documentary https://watchdocumentaries.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/ - never knew there was a font  :cool:

bonus nerd fact - mrs Voynich was the daughter of mr. Boole - of the 'Boolean'
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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #24 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 11:14:13 »
This set is an absoulute banger  :eek:

GLWIC

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #25 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 12:12:35 »
the novelty mods!! the kitting!! and ofc that dd40.  :D

very excited for this. glwic!

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« Reply #26 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 14:05:26 »
I love everything about this!
2021 was the year of Delftware, 2022 is going to be the one of Voynich.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #27 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 14:07:04 »
Consider a EU vendor. I'm gonna cop this one so hard Voynich alphas and novelty mods are an insta buy

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #28 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 16:51:30 »
Awesome to see such distinct novelty designs, these really stand out from the white silhouettes that seem to have become the norm. Is there any chance of alice bars support in base? Can't wait for the GB, phenomenal work <3

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #29 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 17:05:26 »
Great looking set. No numpad kit is very disappointing tho. I'd also suggest using text + icon mods because busy alphas and minimal mods looks unbalanced. If not, I'd prefer OG alignment instead of Dixie mods.

GLWIC!
« Last Edit: Wed, 22 December 2021, 20:34:38 by Fraaaan »

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #30 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 17:40:32 »
Kitting is excellent.

Renders are beautiful.

Design and aesthetic are both out of this world.

I do have a concern though - how confident are you that Milky Way's dye sub can handle the intricacy of this set? They're obviously new on the scene, and have shipped a couple of basic sets but nothing this complex. It'd be sad to see all the fantastic design work lost to sloppy dye sub.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #31 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 19:26:02 »
Great looking set. No numpad kit is very disappointing tho. I'd also suggest using text + icon mods because busy alphas and minimal mods looks unbalanced. If not, I'd prefer OG alignment instead of Dixie mods.

GLWIC!

There’s a numpad kit - expand w the button to see all the child kits. I think it’s done pretty well.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #32 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 19:39:12 »
Can mw use different colored base plastic to avoid 5 sided dyesub? I enjoy the base kit quite a bit but we've all seen the woes of 5 side from every manu thus far. nice set.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #33 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 20:11:10 »
Great looking set. No numpad kit is very disappointing tho. I'd also suggest using text + icon mods because busy alphas and minimal mods looks unbalanced. If not, I'd prefer OG alignment instead of Dixie mods.

GLWIC!

There’s a numpad kit - expand w the button to see all the child kits. I think it’s done pretty well.

Ah, my bad. Didn't see that one.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #34 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 20:50:59 »
Can mw use different colored base plastic to avoid 5 sided dyesub? I enjoy the base kit quite a bit but we've all seen the woes of 5 side from every manu thus far. nice set.

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This set does not require reverse dyesub  :D

I do have a concern though - how confident are you that Milky Way's dye sub can handle the intricacy of this set? They're obviously new on the scene, and have shipped a couple of basic sets but nothing this complex. It'd be sad to see all the fantastic design work lost to sloppy dye sub.

Great question. I definitely had concerns about the ability to properly execute the novelty mod dyesub. I confirmed before deciding definitively on using MW that they can and will provide samples before end of GB. We are shooting for having them before GB even starts but there may need to be a little wiggle room there. They seemed confident in their ability to execute these novelties though, and samples before GB are what I need to put my own mind at ease. I'm sure that helps others as well.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #35 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 21:06:30 »
inspired work! and ocm’s deskmat is sublime. thinking about different layouts and i realized no r4 1.5u supers (and another 1u alt) for hhkb/macos. i love the novelty mods but it would be helpful to also have standard mods. glwgb  :thumb:

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #36 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 21:18:34 »
inspired work! and ocm’s deskmat is sublime. thinking about different layouts and i realized no r4 1.5u supers (and another 1u alt) for hhkb/macos. i love the novelty mods but it would be helpful to also have standard mods. glwgb  :thumb:

Thanks for pointing that out, that was supposed to be in the kit. I will add it to the renders and it will be included at GB

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« Reply #37 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 22:23:21 »
that’s great news! looking forward to this  :thumb:

edit: found the “missing” 1.5u super keys in 40’s kit. sort of an unusual spot for them?


inspired work! and ocm’s deskmat is sublime. thinking about different layouts and i realized no r4 1.5u supers (and another 1u alt) for hhkb/macos. i love the novelty mods but it would be helpful to also have standard mods. glwgb  :thumb:

Thanks for pointing that out, that was supposed to be in the kit. I will add it to the renders and it will be included at GB
« Last Edit: Fri, 24 December 2021, 07:14:30 by azzipa »

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[IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #38 on: Wed, 22 December 2021, 23:44:09 »
Not sure why, but so far everyone that collaborated with MW to bring their set alive, the caps are just top notch. Looking very spicy, I’ll take all please


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« Reply #39 on: Thu, 23 December 2021, 17:05:34 »
I’m definitely all in on this <3

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« Reply #40 on: Thu, 23 December 2021, 20:52:37 »
Gorgeous. I have to have it. Probably going to be my first MW set, too.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #41 on: Fri, 24 December 2021, 04:34:34 »
Thanks a lot for not including punctuation symbols in the voynich alphas kit! (And going for novelties for the whole kit). As a non-US user, it’s quite annoying when a set goes totally original… except for punctuation symbols, which suddenly makes it US-only, even though it’s not supposed to.

Arg, I didn’t want to add another set to the list of GBs I’m waiting for, but this one looks amazing (and I love the concept).

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #42 on: Fri, 24 December 2021, 09:26:46 »
Thanks a lot for not including punctuation symbols in the voynich alphas kit! (And going for novelties for the whole kit). As a non-US user, it’s quite annoying when a set goes totally original… except for punctuation symbols, which suddenly makes it US-only, even though it’s not supposed to.

Arg, I didn’t want to add another set to the list of GBs I’m waiting for, but this one looks amazing (and I love the concept).

I totally agree, even as a US keyboard user I dislike when standard punctuation symbols break the aesthetic consistency of a themed alpha kit. Thank you for the kind words!

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #43 on: Fri, 24 December 2021, 09:38:42 »
Quick update. I've added vendors for UK, EU, OCE, and CA. Still more incoming.

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #44 on: Fri, 24 December 2021, 10:18:32 »

   Oh goodie - another elvish set!  But wait, it's even more interesting than that....

   IMO all the modern-looking arrows should be removed from the "voynich mods" set.  They are not in the style of the manuscript and clash with the script of the keyset, and nobody needs them to find shift/enter/tab/backspace anyway.


 

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« Reply #45 on: Sat, 25 December 2021, 18:16:05 »
This is pretty nice job D

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« Reply #46 on: Sun, 26 December 2021, 15:37:21 »
This. Set. Is. Perfect.

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« Reply #47 on: Sun, 26 December 2021, 17:00:40 »
Wow that is very pretty! Big time cop for me!
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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #48 on: Sun, 26 December 2021, 22:26:07 »
Looks very nice as sublegends, could we maybe see a render on a big ol 1800?

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Re: [IC] MW Voynich
« Reply #49 on: Tue, 28 December 2021, 12:57:10 »
Final vendors have been added (SEA and India). All info has been updated in the OP.