[IC] Infinikey: PBT Islander - GB May 15 to 29 Deskmats added

[Coneree]

i dont even play AC and id cop this. great work!

[Chan]

I'm in for one!

[delet_d]

How thick are infinikey pbt caps?

[ghlurker]

I'm in!

[Banshii]

He's coming for my wallet just like Tom Nook.... This set is fantastic!

[d00deitsnik]

Oh dang. This looks magical~!! I had no idea I wanted this until I found it. I'm super excited to see this keyset. (:

[beamingrobot]

@OP

Will be happy to proxy for the SEA region, hmu if you wanna chat 

[1cubesolver]

Oh wow. I'm very interested in this. Looks great!

[Hanabi]

Really cute set!

[senjo]

cute, like icecream or jelly

[gsh997]

可爱

[28.8kbps]

What a lovely set!

Any chance of the leaf novelty in the base set?

[Radium]

What a cute keycaps.
And i wonder if the space of Infinikey keycaps is warp?

[Mekanist]

Super tempting Splendid job.

[Abec13]

How thick are infinikey pbt caps?

I just measured one of mine to be 1.46mm

What a lovely set!

Any chance of the leaf novelty in the base set?

Probably not. Novelties will stick with novelties.

[kamisamamizu]

Hey I love it!
But I wanna change some things about the novelties.
Why have only 1u novelties for R2? Wouldn't it be better to have a 1.5 replacement for tab?
Also with R3, apart from enter, you need one for caps lock.
For R4, I'd love to have a 2.75u shift novelty. How about the vaulting pole?
I'd also love an ISO enter with the axe.

[Abec13]

Hey I love it!
But I wanna change some things about the novelties.
Why have only 1u novelties for R2? Wouldn't it be better to have a 1.5 replacement for tab?
Also with R3, apart from enter, you need one for caps lock.
For R4, I'd love to have a 2.75u shift novelty. How about the vaulting pole?
I'd also love an ISO enter with the axe.

1u's are to fill columnal space on boards, like my 45-ATS/Adelie, any 65 board, and boards like the TMO, or J-01. The novelties kit is plenty large, I'm not sure expansion is the play here. I'll consider it.

[srignacio]

I'm in! this is awesome!

[//gainsborough]

Just when I started thinking that caving-in to the scalpers on eBay for the AC edition switch was the worst purchase of my gaming life, this IC comes out just in time to save me.  Bless you, my man.

Definitely in!

[Chungle]

This is awesome! I'm building a Norbaforce MK II with the Desert Palm finish and this would actually look SO good with it. Count me in. I will say I would love it if the brown spacebar was in the base kit but I can see why you went with the white. Guess I'll just have to get all three kits :shrug:

[vinyldoodles]

Shut up and take my Bells!

[Flamboyant Ham]

My girlfriend would love this!

[Chungle]

Hey, just thought about this; are there any plans to have a deskmat to go along with this set? It wouldn't have to have any explicitly AC stuff on it necessarily. Like maybe an island surrounded by ocean in the sun or something. Or just some kind of pattern of AC-like items like the leaf using the color scheme of the set.

[sygo_]

Love the colours! The novelties and cute aswell, nice work!

[Abec13]

Hey, just thought about this; are there any plans to have a deskmat to go along with this set? It wouldn't have to have any explicitly AC stuff on it necessarily. Like maybe an island surrounded by ocean in the sun or something. Or just some kind of pattern of AC-like items like the leaf using the color scheme of the set.

Yes! It's a WIP

[//gainsborough]

Hey, just thought about this; are there any plans to have a deskmat to go along with this set? It wouldn't have to have any explicitly AC stuff on it necessarily. Like maybe an island surrounded by ocean in the sun or something. Or just some kind of pattern of AC-like items like the leaf using the color scheme of the set.

Yes! It's a WIP

Honestly the sig. image would be sick as a deskmat!

[aodaliya1234]

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss PBT as well, after realising how horrible gmk is with the shine i have fully converted to going pbt and other types.

[Ustinj]

Just an idea, I saw you mentioned that brown text on the colored mods were to keep uniformity of contrast. Have you experimented with making the mod legends a darker lightness of the same hue on the mods? I.e. a darker green (but same hue) legend on the green mod, etc? Either way it looks awesome as it is, just might be something cool to try ! I'd love to try doing some desk mat work for this set if ya haven't done it yet!!

[zabblleon]

Have you experimented with making the mod legends a darker lightness of the same hue on the mods? I.e. a darker green (but same hue) legend on the green mod, etc?

Seconded, this would look great. Maybe as a modifier kit?

[oldcat]

ALL IN.

[methbreath69]

Dark green legends would look amaaazing. Hope you experiment more with legend colors! I'm definitely in.

[silversung]

I NEED this to happen. This would look so cute on the frosted Uni660!

[Abec13]

Interesting choice of colors (I'd now need to have not a beige case, but a sand colored one).

Regarding the layout, I see its following Infinikey's actually pretty good template for the base and expansion kits. That said, there are a couple suggestions I'd make to improve this IC (and the template).

1) The base kit has two `~ keys, as is standard: alpha-colored and a mod-colored. That said, in this key there's "left-mod" (green" and "right-mod" (blue colors), and this key is only available as left-mod. Perhaps there could be an additional right-mod version of it, for the compat 60% keyboards that move it to the right side of the keyboard.

2) Swap the R3 #~ (UK-only) in the base kit with the R3 \| (US only) key in the expansion kit. This is a problem shared with all the recent Infinikey sets, which (IMNAAHO) should be solved before it gets "codified", so to speak, as the "correct" way (which... isn't). For extra brownie points, an R4 <> keycap could be added, to allow both PC style and terminal style to be supported.


HTH!

Thanks for the note about the `~ as for your comment about the ISO keys: while you seem to be more vocal about your preferences than some, I've head others prefer it the way I have here as not to have duplicate of backslash-pipe on R3 and 4.

[depletedvespene]

Interesting choice of colors (I'd now need to have not a beige case, but a sand colored one).

Regarding the layout, I see its following Infinikey's actually pretty good template for the base and expansion kits. That said, there are a couple suggestions I'd make to improve this IC (and the template).

1) The base kit has two `~ keys, as is standard: alpha-colored and a mod-colored. That said, in this key there's "left-mod" (green" and "right-mod" (blue colors), and this key is only available as left-mod. Perhaps there could be an additional right-mod version of it, for the compat 60% keyboards that move it to the right side of the keyboard.

2) Swap the R3 #~ (UK-only) in the base kit with the R3 \| (US only) key in the expansion kit. This is a problem shared with all the recent Infinikey sets, which (IMNAAHO) should be solved before it gets "codified", so to speak, as the "correct" way (which... isn't). For extra brownie points, an R4 <> keycap could be added, to allow both PC style and terminal style to be supported.


HTH!

Thanks for the note about the `~ as for your comment about the ISO keys: while you seem to be more vocal about your preferences than some, I've head others prefer it the way I have here as not to have duplicate of backslash-pipe on R3 and 4.

Well, you could go "terminal style" instead and avoid that duplication (at the expense of adding one key to the mega add-on kit).

[28.8kbps]

Interesting choice of colors (I'd now need to have not a beige case, but a sand colored one).

Regarding the layout, I see its following Infinikey's actually pretty good template for the base and expansion kits. That said, there are a couple suggestions I'd make to improve this IC (and the template).

1) The base kit has two `~ keys, as is standard: alpha-colored and a mod-colored. That said, in this key there's "left-mod" (green" and "right-mod" (blue colors), and this key is only available as left-mod. Perhaps there could be an additional right-mod version of it, for the compat 60% keyboards that move it to the right side of the keyboard.

2) Swap the R3 #~ (UK-only) in the base kit with the R3 \| (US only) key in the expansion kit. This is a problem shared with all the recent Infinikey sets, which (IMNAAHO) should be solved before it gets "codified", so to speak, as the "correct" way (which... isn't). For extra brownie points, an R4 <> keycap could be added, to allow both PC style and terminal style to be supported.


HTH!

Thanks for the note about the `~ as for your comment about the ISO keys: while you seem to be more vocal about your preferences than some, I've head others prefer it the way I have here as not to have duplicate of backslash-pipe on R3 and 4.

Well, you could go "terminal style" instead and avoid that duplication (at the expense of adding one key to the mega add-on kit).

It’s always tough to please everyone.

Have you considered a smaller, cheaper, base kit and a few regional expansion kits? Uk iso, expanded ansi, EU iso etc.?

[depletedvespene]

Interesting choice of colors (I'd now need to have not a beige case, but a sand colored one).

Regarding the layout, I see its following Infinikey's actually pretty good template for the base and expansion kits. That said, there are a couple suggestions I'd make to improve this IC (and the template).

1) The base kit has two `~ keys, as is standard: alpha-colored and a mod-colored. That said, in this key there's "left-mod" (green" and "right-mod" (blue colors), and this key is only available as left-mod. Perhaps there could be an additional right-mod version of it, for the compat 60% keyboards that move it to the right side of the keyboard.

2) Swap the R3 #~ (UK-only) in the base kit with the R3 \| (US only) key in the expansion kit. This is a problem shared with all the recent Infinikey sets, which (IMNAAHO) should be solved before it gets "codified", so to speak, as the "correct" way (which... isn't). For extra brownie points, an R4 <> keycap could be added, to allow both PC style and terminal style to be supported.


HTH!

Thanks for the note about the `~ as for your comment about the ISO keys: while you seem to be more vocal about your preferences than some, I've head others prefer it the way I have here as not to have duplicate of backslash-pipe on R3 and 4.

Well, you could go "terminal style" instead and avoid that duplication (at the expense of adding one key to the mega add-on kit).

It’s always tough to please everyone.

Have you considered a smaller, cheaper, base kit and a few regional expansion kits? Uk iso, expanded ansi, EU iso etc.?

I demand a smaller and cheaper kit that nevertheless contains more keys and better compatibility. And accents for all. It's, like, TOTALLY doable and stuff. 

[kbye]

Canadian vendor please!

[konstantin]

Thanks for the note about the `~ as for your comment about the ISO keys: while you seem to be more vocal about your preferences than some, I've head others prefer it the way I have here as not to have duplicate of backslash-pipe on R3 and 4.

The way to avoid duplicate legends is to change the R4 key to <>.

[loserbot3000]

gonna need this!

[asciisii]

Canadian vendor please!

Yes pleaseeee. Deskhero maybe?

[dommyy13]

I would build an ansi board just for this

[TheFourthCow]

I love it! Needs an ortho set though

[Degree]

Definitely joining! Any deskmats planned?

[//gainsborough]

Definitely joining! Any deskmats planned?

Yeah, Abec said it's a WIP!

[DrHigsby]

I love it! Needs an ortho set though

Base + Expansion 

[28.8kbps]

Interesting choice of colors (I'd now need to have not a beige case, but a sand colored one).

Regarding the layout, I see its following Infinikey's actually pretty good template for the base and expansion kits. That said, there are a couple suggestions I'd make to improve this IC (and the template).

1) The base kit has two `~ keys, as is standard: alpha-colored and a mod-colored. That said, in this key there's "left-mod" (green" and "right-mod" (blue colors), and this key is only available as left-mod. Perhaps there could be an additional right-mod version of it, for the compat 60% keyboards that move it to the right side of the keyboard.

2) Swap the R3 #~ (UK-only) in the base kit with the R3 \| (US only) key in the expansion kit. This is a problem shared with all the recent Infinikey sets, which (IMNAAHO) should be solved before it gets "codified", so to speak, as the "correct" way (which... isn't). For extra brownie points, an R4 <> keycap could be added, to allow both PC style and terminal style to be supported.


HTH!

Thanks for the note about the `~ as for your comment about the ISO keys: while you seem to be more vocal about your preferences than some, I've head others prefer it the way I have here as not to have duplicate of backslash-pipe on R3 and 4.

Well, you could go "terminal style" instead and avoid that duplication (at the expense of adding one key to the mega add-on kit).

It’s always tough to please everyone.

Have you considered a smaller, cheaper, base kit and a few regional expansion kits? Uk iso, expanded ansi, EU iso etc.?

I demand a smaller and cheaper kit that nevertheless contains more keys and better compatibility. And accents for all. It's, like, TOTALLY doable and stuff. 

I was actually asking for a smaller base kit with paid for expansions, like UK ISO, etc. But okay?

[depletedvespene]

…
I demand a smaller and cheaper kit that nevertheless contains more keys and better compatibility. And accents for all. It's, like, TOTALLY doable and stuff. 

I was actually asking for a smaller base kit with paid for expansions, like UK ISO, etc. But okay?

Now, now... everyone should pay the same amount money (including shipping and taxes), get the same keycaps AND be equally satisfied. TOTALLY doable and stuff.

[roznalos]

I'm definitely in on this one. So many awesome keycaps, but not enough boards(that I own)!

[//gainsborough]

I'm definitely in on this one. So many awesome keycaps, but not enough boards(that I own)!

I'm beginning to have the same problem..

[retainerbox]

Haven't bought a new set in years but I'd be interested! Any chance of Hiragana characters??