IC IS LIVEHey everyone, I'm pleased to announce the first feedback round for my new keyset I'm calling "kam_superuser"! It's based on the idea of command-line terminals, sysadmin and server room consoles. Before moving onto a more formal IC stage I'd love to get your feedback, ideas and concerns on the design so far. At the moment everything is up for debate: colourways, legends and profile. I'm really keen to see this concept through to reality and make sure it's something the community wants as well.
First of all lets take a look at some renders (top 3 are recent updates):
The typeface is a monospace font that would look right at home in a CMD prompt or bash terminal. The legends are designed to look like commands being typed into a terminal behind a cursor.
Profile has now settled on KAT/KAM as Signature Plastics don't seem to do any reverse or all over dye subbing meaning we can't have light legends on dark caps.
I hope you all like it and your feedback on any aspect of this design is welcome and needed! This is the first set I'm designing to try and realise my vision of taking keysets away from simple colourway changes and into a more designed space leveraging the flexibility of dye subbing to tap into the potential of this blank canvas in front of me
*UPDATE 1*Following feedback from you guys and from Reddit the following changes are being made:
Profile: DSA is out as this colourway is not possible with SP. It is now between KAT and KAM. KAM fits the aesthetic far better but so far KAT is proving more popular.
Legends: Drive letter alphas are out. Opinion is also split over the command prompt style mods. There will be an alternative set of mods for those who do not like these. They may be plain text or image based as a catch all.
Colour: Many of you did not like the original teal/mint colour. This has been shifted slightly into 353C green. This colour has less blue in it but is still a desaturated green.
Why am I not going full saturated green like GMK Terminal? While it may be more authentic, this type of green is generally not very appealing and becomes garish. By desaturating the green we get something that is visually pleasing and still gets the idea across. By brightening it in this way we also attempt to visually imitate emissive properties of monitors that we don't have in plastics. Examples of very saturated greens are below:
Layouts: As many layouts as are practically possible will be made! Folks have asked for Ergodox, ortho, colemak, dvorak layouts etc. I will be attempting to accommodate as many of you as I can.
*UPDATE 2*Small update on a potential alternate set for those who dislike the >:\cmd_ style keys, inspired by terminal highlighting: