The logo kinda grows on me to be honest, I like it better now. Some questions tho:
1. Will there be extra hotswap pcb with standard layout? (2u bspace, 6.25u spacebar etc)
2. Any anodized option, specifically Teal / Turquoise / Tiffany Blue color? I know you will have e-teal but wonder if it's available anodized
1. The hotswap PCB supports 7u space and 2u bs
2. Two anodized colors will be available. They are blue and grey.
What kind of blue is it? Is it teal or dark blue?
And please won’t you make the hotswap PCB has standard layout (6.25u space) as it’s more common for keycaps?
The anode blue is about the same with blue in the render with GMK Nautilus in OP.
No, another group of people will argue the 7u space layout is better if we change.
Honestly, I don't get your argument. Why choose something uncommon over common?
This is different than the case of your logo. You can use that argument on that since it's purely subjective and there's no standardization of how a logo usually looks.
But this is not the same as that. It's an objective and undeniable fact that 6.25u is a standard layout that's more common. Meanwhile, 7u is not.
As a comparison, this is just as bizarre as a base keycap kit with ISO caps instead of ANSI caps. They can argue all they want ISO is better but the fact remains that ANSI is more general.
If they want more variety than the standard layout, shouldn't they get solder PCB instead? Isn't that supposed to be the key difference between solder and hotswap? You can't change layout in hotswap, that's why the layout should be standard.
You can see that a lot of people under my previous post asking for 6.25u hotswap pcb. Please, make it possible.
Two things:
1: 6.25u bottom row being more common on keyboards does not imply any sort of advantage on its own. Being more common is not, by itself, a positive thing (if anything, it could be a negative in a community like this). The associated advantage is supposed to be broader keycap compatibility, but 7u bottom row is an extremely common setup to support in enthusiast keysets. GMK is the manufacturer of choice for keycaps in the community right now, and every GMK set that I've seen in recent years supports 7u bottom row in the base kit, so I really don't think that keyset compatibility is a major issue here for most buyers. What keysets are people trying to use that don't support 7u bottom row? The factors that differentiate the two bottom row options, then, are left to aesthetics and functionality, and it's harder to make an argument that 6.25u is somehow objectively superior in those regards. That's a can of worms I don't want to open.
2: If neither bottom row option is objectively superior (or even if one is, really), 6.25u bottom row being more common on keyboards as a whole doesn't mean that the majority of potential buyers of this keyboard would prefer 6.25u over 7u. You don't have any data to support that, so I don't really get your argument. It seems to boil down to "I like X, and lots of other people in the world like X, so X should be the thing of choice for everything, everywhere." Not every keyboard has to be for every person, or even the majority of people in the wider community. If you want to try and prove that the group of people interested in this keyboard would on average prefer 6.25u over 7u (and I don't just mean counting the people and taking the larger number), that's fine, and you would then have a decent argument for changing the default (in the absence of strong feelings from the designer). But without that proof, your argument doesn't seem convincing. You can make your argument about ISO because of the numbers involved, but that's not the case here. A board can be successful with a default 7u bottom row. See the U80-A and the Koyu, for recent examples. Why would a designer with an interest in broad appeal like RAMA have 7u as the default bottom row? Because they like it more, and the market will support it.
