Hey everyone I have great news! So as the last round of color samples from GMK were actually the wrong pantones (as I had changed these near the end of the Group Buy to better reflect colors used in renders), I received the R2 samples over the weekend and after some comparisons have approved the new samples! As a lot of recent GB's have had many rounds of samples before approval this will likely speed up the overall process and ideally you can all expect to get your keycaps in a much more reasonable amount of time. For those curious I have posted some sample pictures over on the
Discord.
Regarding desk mats I received 2 rounds of samples for these and made some small adjustments, Mekibo (formerly TX Keyboards) has informed me the newest samples look great and will likely start shipping soon for those who ordered ONLY desk mats. If your order contains any of the keycap sets or artisans then the shipping for these will be at a different date and are not shipped separately.
Finally for those who ordered only the RAMA artisan caps some people have already started receiving theirs and I'm extremely happy with how these artisans look, although matching aluminum to plastic pantones is very difficult I think all of you will be pleased with these keycaps!
Thank you again to everyone who joined the GB or supported me by sharing and following this journey. I'll keep you all updated on the status of manufacturing once we hear back from GMK but estimates of course will rely completely on GMK and their queue of orders for other keycap sets.
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