I've never used clears, but I use kaihua speed silvers for mod keys on a board with speed coppers, and I've got a DSI left hand with Cherry Reds, so I can compare to those. Short answer is I'd guess Silvers probably feel way more like Blacks than Reds or your Clears if you're just slowly pressing a key to bottom-out, but if you've trained to not bottom out clears, I wonder if Silvers might feel light and cushiony to you.
The Speeds have a very light initial force to overcome to move the key (~20g), and they bottom out a little shorter (3.6mm). Subjectively these things combined change the feel a lot versus reds. I always bottom out hard with reds, but the silvers' force curve is much steeper and I bottom out a lot less. With reds, they don't feel like the stiffness is increasing much at all after overcoming the initial bump to get the key moving, it just feels like a smooth slide until I bottom out. With Silvers, since they actuate so high, I know that I basically just have to get the key to move at all to actuate, but the stiffness after actuation helps slow my fingers down gently. I can rest my fingers lightly on a silver without it actuating, so it's not that much of a hair trigger, but they're pretty light.
Compare the force curves and this makes sense- Silvers depress at about 20, and bottom out a tad over 50, but at only 3.6 mm total travel, so the slope is about 9g/mm. Gateron Clears and reds slope is more like 5g/mm (bottom-out force is less too), so the silvers are a lot steeper, and bottom-out force is higher. Thus, there's a lot more work (area under the curve) required to bottom out a silver than a Gat clear and it'd feel a lot heavier if you hammer on the keys.
This feature of the Speeds is actually why I like Coppers, which is the tactile version-, for typing. About the same force curve as the Silver, but a small tactile bump that's way high up. I bottom out a lot less with these, because they actuate very light, but since they actuate early, most of the stiffness is after actuation, so there's less of a "freefall" sensation like I feel with Browns/Blues- the tactility lets me know it's actuated, but then the spring gets pretty heavy to cushion my fingers, and it helps me reduce bottoming out. Someone with stronger fingers might blast all the way to the plate with Coppers, but for those who prefer light switches, Coppers feel "cushioned" to me.
ok, that was a lot of words, hope they help. I'd definitely recommend trying some some Speeds- they might not be your thing, but the feel is definitely different than most MX clones, I think mostly due to force curve slope, so it's probably love or hate.
