this is really disappointing for a few reasons
1. given the entire range of concrete greys between white and black, it's a huge miss to use such low-contrast greys for the alphas in particular, but the entire set just isn't very strong, which is ironic considering brutalism is about really strong, bold aesthetic choices, and yours are extremely subdued.
2. you post a bad keyset IC about every month to month and a half. maybe focus on just one and do it well?
3. arches are super non-brutalist. your graphic for this features a building that isn't brutalist (some kind of geometric monument valley-style monochrome thingy?). i don't think you know what brutalism is. you should google it or do some research before just crapping out a new poorly thought-out keyset.
Hey! First, thanks for this "brutal" feedback, haha.
While making this set, we have consulted multiple friends of ours who are architecture students and also people who work in industrial design.
To clear a couple of things up about the set: We have decided to call it Brutalist, due to the heavy influence the style had on us while designing this concept, but as things got further we decided to bring in a broader range of archi influences (hence the archways in the novelties for example) and ultimately settled on more generalized concrete-architecture feel for it instead of a straight out pure brutalism based one. We are actively trying to improve this set and will take all of these suggestions and constructive criticisms into consideration.
We have posted 2 ICs some minutes apart from a long while ago, based on the idea that one of our close friends (who also works with us) recently acquired proper machinery and the necessary know-how for manufacturing PBT/ABS keycaps in-house. Having that project postponed, we have decided to drop those rough concepts and instead focus on something more "traditional" for the community, which is also something we would like to see on our own desks. Hope this clears some things up for everyone, thank you for being reasonable and patient!