Hello my friends, thank you so much for your patience. I know it's hard to wait for something you paid for more than a year ago; trust me, I really want this set myself!
That said I come with a great update: the colour samples arrived! SP took their time but they got the colours exactly right on their first try.
Just to recap here are the colour combinations:
Dark green alphas: RAL6012 with TBT legends
Beige mods: TN with RAL8000 legends
Accents: RAL8000 with TN legends
Custom colours: RAL6012, RAL8000
Stock colours: TBT, TN
I'm not a good photographer but I tried my best to capture the colours together with the swatches from the colour book, and together with the other stock colours chosen. Everything fits perfectly with what I envisioned and I hope you all think so too!
Above: All the colours with a white chip for calibration.
Above: All the colours without the white chip.
Above: All the colours against the colours in the book.
Final verdict: The colours have been APPROVED <3Click
here for the full album that simply includes the original unedited photos as well.
Once again I thank you for your support and patience. Though I would love to give you updates every single day, I am just a designer in the end. Please check Omnitype's update page for news. I will always update here and on my instagram
@avr.ocado if I have anything to share, but ultimately all my news also comes from Omnitype, who are the ones communicating directly with SP.
Omnitype update page (it takes awhile to get updated):
https://omnitype.com/blogs/timelines/sa-ramsesOmnitype weekly updates (sometimes includes tiny anecdotes like how they just received colour samples):
https://omnitype.com/blogs/updatesAnticipated FAQ: Why are the chips half textured and half glossy? Which will SA Ramses be?
To my knowledge, plastic colour chips are always made in textured/glossy versions because we perceive colour differently depending on the texture of the material. Insert a scientific description about light and reflectiveness here, but I hope you get where I'm coming from. People getting colour samples will look at both surfaces and consider the effect based on whatever they're going to apply the colour to. In our case, all SA sets (that I know of) do not have a rough surface, so you would expect the colour to be a little more akin to the glossy part of the sample. However, we all know that ABS caps don't come to you
glossy - that only comes after heavy use due to the oils on our fingers transferring to the caps. So the texture of the cap, I can only describe to you as somewhat satiny (SA set users, if you have a better word for it, please jump in). The effect on the shade of the colour will be minimal: it won't be as deep as the full gloss texture, neither will it be as light as the shade is for the rough-surfaced sample. This is why it was so difficult to render the keycap set, because even in renders there are certain lighting setups and even different texture values used, which all affect the shade of the colours that you perceive, and it doesn't help that the green I chose is extremely dark, yet may appear greyish from certain angles. I hope the pictures of the chips and my verbal description helps in constructing a rough mental image of how the colours will turn out.
Only look at the renders from this GB thread or the vendor websites, as my older renders floating around on my IG or Reddit might have been poorly done. Even the latest ones right now I can't say for sure if it's accurate, but it does match what I'm envisioning when I look at the actual colour chip in hand. If you still have doubts about the colour, please find a RAL K7 book (or a friend who has one, or maybe a shop, idk if they have these books in shops?) and look at RAL6012 and RAL8000. That's the best advice I can give you right now, and I hope I have done everything in my power to show you what to expect!
Peace and love and all the good GB juju to everyone. May the machines go brrrrr and the delivery companies go zooooom <3
