[IC] GMK Cosmos

[Kaptain Mike]

Hello Everyone and welcome to the IC for GMK Cosmos!
In the dark realms of infinite space lie vibrant bursts of color.

Black sets are timeless classics and essential for most collections so here I aim to bring something new and more distinctive than just another variation of a White on Black set. The base is black and the legends provide subtle hints of multicolor that become visible when viewed under specific lighting conditions for an overall minimal and dark aesthetic.

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Please READ everything. If you don't like dark and low contrast sets, then this is not for you
 


KITS


Nebulae (Base Kit)


Cosmic Dust (Add-On Kit)


Meteoroids (Macros Kit)


Darkness (Hangul Subs) Kit

More

Kitting Diagram




Close Up


*Disclaimer: Please note that these are renders and it is very, very difficult to convey this texture/sparkle unless you hit it with direct light, but then it makes the render look strange. Black and anything with a multifaceted "glitter" or iridescence is always going to be tricky. I understand that in some of these it may look similar to GMK Dark with CR on N9, this is due to the lighting. We tried to provide renders in a couple different lighting conditions. Please scroll down to the GMK SAMPLES section to read more.




FEATURES

Cherry profile, ABS plastic, thick doubleshot keycaps manufactured by GMK using one of GMK's new custom plastics. Colors: CR base. Multicolor "liquid black" for the legends (referred to as M-LB going forward). Legends won't be super visible. That is by design. I like black sets and it's about the details here. Less is more. Get good (coming from someone who is looking down as I type this). If this isn’t for you, that is ok. OG Cherry-style Icon-Text modifiers, not Omni mods. Legends on LED keycaps are pad printed. Accent keys will be inverse meaning CR legends on M-LB. Add-on kit has 4-key 40's support, extra B and alice bars and the very elite '95 Windows keys. Any missing spacebars are available elsewhere if you don’t already own them since we are using CR/black. EX: GMK Mictlan, Wasabi, Stealth, WoB variants etc. Pricing/Vendors: TBD GB timeline: TBD but ASAP Artisan collabs: TBD. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in a collab.

RENDERS


OC2XL by @dajikeyboards



500C by @merisi.works



Sonnet by @modekeyboards



TKL by @whysoda







GMK SAMPLES

GMK sent me samples of some of their new plastics. The two seen here are “liquid black” a and b. One has red specks and the other has blue specks, both have iridescent qualities. Under certain lighting conditions, you can clearly see the blue and red colors while in different lighting it looks mostly like a glossy black. The other cap is a new GMK WoB for comparison. My goal is to have a “liquid black” variant with multicolor specks and iridescence, much like nebulas in space! The renders are trying to convey a multicolor version of these blue and red “liquid blacks” so try to imagine that. I would greatly appreciate your imaginative flexibility.







THANKS TO:

Special thanks to whysoda for being the crucial piece in bringing my idea to virtual life with her renders and guidance! BlindAssassin111, Vheissu, Matt, OCM, Ankit, PogurtWogurt for guidance and feedback - even if minimal I really appreciate it. GMK for working with me and sending me samples of their new plastics.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to drop me a DM over on Discord @kaptainmike

PLEASE NOTE: Future collabs TBD based on IC performance


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[Kaptain Mike]

Reserved

[ankit]

hell yes ily mike

[packman86]

Those GMK samples are looking super exciting!
In for 2 sets!

[fruitykeeb]

mike bought every wob set and is yearning for more. i like

[BlindAssassin111]

Can't wait, tis a very nice set.

[mcmcmc]

 

[LightningXI]

Those GMK samples are looking super exciting!
In for 2 sets!

+1 for Carl Sagan ref

also in for one

[Trackpoint]

Really neat set! I'm curious though, why choose insert as one of the three accent keys?

[Soums]

can't wait, going to go in on this... 

[Hinkerbottom]

naise

[juaninamilli]

Nebulae? More like Nebu-bae, amirite

[TyPo.mk]

Hello I would purchase this product

[deepspacerailgun]

Samples look even better in person! GLWIC!!!

[Woovie]

10/10 WTB 

[kyuut]

very nice mike

[LightningXI]

Really neat set! I'm curious though, why choose insert as one of the three accent keys?

Some people prefer having an accent on that key, especially on TKL setups. These folks may choose to put an artisan on Insert instead of Esc or the top-right cluster, and so on... It's a key that's not used (often, if at all) in practice, so it makes it practical to put an accent there.

[Cringelord]

Wished you could have a render that didn't look like CR on N9 but I'll buy this nonetheless.

[mul7i]

very seggsy yum yum in my tum tum

[Sissy]

GMK Dark is one of my favourite sets so this really appeals to me.

[unwashed_heathen]

Very interested, GLWIC! Any chance of adding support for single macros column to macros kit?

[Natetypesfast]

man such a sick set - sign me up.  Also I would kill for that Sonnet accent.

[VAMP]

oooh i love this!

[Patty]

i cannot resist sparkly sets

im in

[caap]

man, just when i thought I could stop joining group buys, you come and make this set.

looks great mike! will be here to support when it runs

[twitchytheinsideman]

finally a gmk blanks set

[LaserCrafter]

we are one step closer to gmk blanks

[majin]

such a nice set, can’t wait to have it in hands!

[keepoto]

nice now we have GMK Nebula, GMK Universe and GMK Cosmos, what's next?

[xLeHoy]

nice now we have GMK Nebula, GMK Universe and GMK Cosmos, what's next?

Good question, I've heard of a few things

[sirieous]

Wicked, would be very down

[cthalupa]

Really nice use of the effects plastics.

[MSA_Vision]

You about to make me buy a black board, Mike…

Count me in

[Manukbs_]

Really really good

[sw3ps]

Pls add an international kit.

[Udyrstruidor]

Based kitting

[mr_foggy]

black

[Jae-3soteric]

Yes. Great theme and lovely execution so far

[obzkure]

Great work with this Mike! Those sample keycaps from GMK showing the effect are very cool.

[MartinThePolarBear]

Love the details here

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[Farhandsome]

Dude!! This is awesome - love the inclusion of a macro kit. No complaints on the kitting. +1 for windowed keys.

You are also incredibly handsome.

[tuesdaygloom]

This looks so fun!
Can we get r0 and r5?

[fzlo]

Wow! Insane work!
Definitely bus this one

International would be awesome!

[dirtywretch]

nice now we have GMK Nebula, GMK Universe and GMK Cosmos, what's next?

GMK NGC 1232.

In the meantime, I'd be down for Cosmos.

[Prim3]

 

[whohackedme]

Great design idea! Any chance of entertaining the idea of making a kit where all the alphas sparkly and the mods aren't? I think if it's on alphas instead of mods, then it'll look like you're peaking into space and your keyboard is the telescope

[tuesdaygloom]

can we also get a blank 1u spacebars too

[spingo]

That's really cool! Good use of that new plastics material!

[norb]

some novelties would be dope, maybe even in accent-style with the liquid black as primary color 
regardless of that i think i'll be grabbing a set!

[packman86]

This looks so fun!
Can we get r0 and r5?

+1 for R5