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In collaboration with Project Keyboard, I welcome you to the interest check for GMK Gold Rush. GMK Gold Rush focuses on humanity’s desire for gold and is inspired by dusty mine shafts, gravel filled carts, and the glimmer of gold as it starts to peek through the rubble.
Please show your support and interest by filling out this form
https://forms.gle/f9zhuzFaZaAXKb6L8
Colors Used
GMK Gold Rush uses custom colors
Alphas: RAL 1013
Mods: RAL 8019
Legends: RAL 1023(mods), RAL 8019(alphas)
Similar Sets:
While no one technically can own a color, I find that it is important to acknowledge sets that have been run, currently running, or will be run. These are the ones I am aware of and what the similarities are.
GMK Cafe: Uses the same mod color as GMK Cafe - RAL 8019.
GMK Yellowjacket: Similar yellow on dark color(black/brown) mods with lighter colored alphas color scheme.
MG Ember: Similar yellow on dark color(black/brown) mods with lighter colored alphas color scheme.
JTK Yolch: Similar yellow on dark colored(black/brown) mods color scheme.
Renders
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Kits
These are not the final kits and I will continue to refine them until GB time.
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These are not the final novelties and I will continue to refine them until GB time. Notice how the Sift key is actually the size of the Shift key (huhuhu)
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Gold Rush Special
To fit with the theme of rushing for gold. I will be offering a limited quantity of 24K gold plated novelty keys. Exact numbers and how to get these are still to be determined.
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For updates and any questions you may have, please visit my discord channel
https://discord.gg/mAaRGPD
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25K GOLD
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I dig it a lot :D
Any chance of the 3 ISO UK num row keys?
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Merlin back at it again with a very cool yellow set.
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Looks good but the design looks identical to ePBT hive with monochrome kit... I mean idk who thought of it first but just an observation.
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I don't like the "prospect" enter but I absolutely love the rest.
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I don't like the "prospect" enter but I absolutely love the rest.
What he said. I think the Prospect key could change.
The set otherwise is pretty cool.
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Eskimojo beat me to the punch, but I do dig the colorway! Great kitting too. Only one thing is missing, and that's a spacebar kit. I do have a tiny objection regarding the R3 '@, #~ keys; I'd say go with R3 \| instead (and possibly <> instead of R4 \|).
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Looks good but the design looks identical to ePBT hive with monochrome kit... I mean idk who thought of it first but just an observation.
Oof that's one I missed!
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Definitely interested!!
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The font and size you chose for the "Prospect" and "Size" text reminds me of PBT Heavy Industry, which I like. Also, the whole aesthetic of the set reminds me of the 1993 Amiga/DOS game Diggers that I used to play as a kid :D
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Looks good but the design looks identical to ePBT hive with monochrome kit... I mean idk who thought of it first but just an observation.
Oof that's one I missed!
technically you didn't - EPBT Hive is the new version of GMK Yellowjacket.
Hello again! Today I bring you the GMK Yellowjacket revival I have been working on with GTRX,
ePBT Hive
Design
So this set probably looks very familiar and that's because it is! GMK Yellowjacket was a shelved project by GTRX and I wanted to get it going again, but as a pbt keycap set instead of the originally planned GMK. I've made changes to the kits, colors and renamed the set Hive. The colors are all custom pantones. I hope you like it!
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Interested.
Great design.
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these ral colors together are perfect :eek:
KMK Labs
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Definitely excited for this one
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cmon... another set that ima buy... :rolleyes:
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Nice set! especially those novelties.
Maybe have all regular text mods to match the novelty text mods? Sift might look odd if the right shift is an icon.
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Simple but nice. I like it.
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I’m really liking this a lot, I’d love full UK ISO support, but honestly I’m in anyhow.
Classy
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Eskimojo beat me to the punch, but I do dig the colorway! Great kitting too. Only one thing is missing, and that's a spacebar kit. I do have a tiny objection regarding the R3 '@, #~ keys; I'd say go with R3 \| instead (and possibly <> instead of R4 \|).
Me too. That, or do full UK+US (which would mean R3 \| and the three R1 UK-specific keys).
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I'm in for this!
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I know GMK Merlin's 40's kit didn't do well - considering the ratio to base kits sold I'd say it did better than some sets actually - but we'll you please, please, please consider at the very least adding min. ortho support to the base kit or the spacebar kit? Yellow is one of my favorite colors. You'd only need 4, 1u keys:
r2: Out
r3: Data or Read
r4: Shift and Enter
Thanks for considering Merlin!
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From one GB to another IC -- Merlin can't be stopped!
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Prospect Shift key, and vice versa for the novelties?
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I wanted GMK Yellow Jacket. It got on hold. Then ePBT Hive appeared - that looked like a closest replacement, but would require two sets (since alphas in base are black). This one looks like it can be one set to get almost the same color scheme.
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Ooooo I like this color scheme!
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hi! signed up on GH for this (I missed serika :P and i like this almost better) - you know who will proxy it in asia? thanks!
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This is a good look.
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Interested.
I really like the colors!
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Really like the colourway, any chance of UK keys?
Would just need our funny `¬ 2" 3£ keys
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Prospect Shift key, and vice versa for the novelties?
I'd honestly rather have the Sift key as a Shift key. But the Propsect key is still TBD. I don't like it as much as I thought I would.
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The community might be a bit saturated over hiragana sublegends, but if this have them in a kit or something, definitely count me in :D
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The community might be a bit saturated over hiragana sublegends, but if this have them in a kit or something, definitely count me in :D
Yes, because Japan is well known for its gold mines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gold_mines_in_Japan).
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The community might be a bit saturated over hiragana sublegends, but if this have them in a kit or something, definitely count me in :D
Yes, because Japan is well known for its gold mines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gold_mines_in_Japan).
Perhaps the gold is in people's hearts
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The community might be a bit saturated over hiragana sublegends, but if this have them in a kit or something, definitely count me in :D
Yes, because Japan is well known for its gold mines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gold_mines_in_Japan).
<s>Mt Fuji is made of gold, covered by soil so that folks dont dig it out, also the legend of golden samurai sowrd </s>
+1 for Hiragana sublegends kit.
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The more I look at this, the more I like it, it looks especially good on white!
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Here we go again. not every set needs to be crammed with the Hiragana sublegends folks...
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Here we go again. not every set needs to be crammed with the Hiragana sublegends folks...
I agree. Hiragana is at risk of losing its coolness out of overuse, especially in sets that are unrelated to Japan or Japanese culture in general. Doing a GMK GOJIRASTRIKESTOKYO set? Hiragana is fully warranted. Doing GMK MORTADELOYFILEMON? No Hiraganas, guys (no old Iberian scripts, for that matter, as even though both things do come from the same place, they couldn't be more far apart from each other).
The design of this particular set, as it stands now, is very good, so it doesn't need to artificially push up its coolness factor. IMHO, YMMV.
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Here we go again. not every set needs to be crammed with the Hiragana sublegends folks...
I agree. Hiragana is at risk of losing its coolness out of overuse, especially in sets that are unrelated to Japan or Japanese culture in general. Doing a GMK GOJIRASTRIKESTOKYO set? Hiragana is fully warranted. Doing GMK MORTADELOYFILEMON? No Hiraganas, guys (no old Iberian scripts, for that matter, as even though both things do come from the same place, they couldn't be more far apart from each other).
The design of this particular set, as it stands now, is very good, so it doesn't need to artificially push up its coolness factor. IMHO, YMMV.
Very much agreee
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I've been hearing people say “this is what Serika should've been”. I agree to some extent: Serika should've not had sublegends, just like this
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I'm glad this set doesn't have sublegends. They have no place on this set.
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I never imagined this as a Japanese sublegend keyset. Those legends have no place in this set.
Japan does have a history in gold mining, but I think western nations especially the US has a richer history in it.
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I never imagined this as a Japanese sublegend keyset. Those legends have no place in this set.
Japan does have a history in gold mining, but I think western nations especially the US has a richer history in it.
For me that's completely ok, IMO you, as the designer of the set, must stay to what you think the set is supposed to be. I talked about sublegends just because I really liked them, didn't even think about the suitability with the theme.
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Really like the colourway, any chance of UK keys?
Would just need our funny `¬ 2" 3£ keys
+1
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I definitely dig it.
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whoops.
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A black alpha kit is thinkable?
I'm totally into this set!
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Yellow On Black alphas kit would be fantastic.
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Fantastic colors. Count me in !!
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reverse serika :P Looking good, keep up the good work!
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this looks awesome!
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Is there a timeline for this project?
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This is like a cleaner version of Serika. definitely in for this.
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Very interested.
Let's make it happen!
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Is there a timeline for this project?
Merlin said next year. So could be january or december :p
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Is there a timeline for this project?
Merlin said next year. So could be january or december :p
unpredictable :'( :'( :'(
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Any updates on this? :)
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Would be nice if you used a matching gold with GMK LUX
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I would love to see something like this with like an old gold like Pantone 871U. Have the legends be that color on the white as well.
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Nice colorway, I hope this makes it to GB eventually
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Been awhile =)
Would love to see this setup.
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Imma keep this on my watch list! Glwic and wish you all the best for this project!
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I'm really liking the look of this set, nice job :thumb:
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Lit colors
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Surprised there aren't more people filling this IC. It's hard to find nice black and gold keycaps.
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this looks really clean!
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I don't like the "prospect" enter but I absolutely love the rest.
Dig | Mine | Strike - all make more sense to me. Prospect is a tough sell for an enter key. I feel like Summon was much more of a fun / successful word in your other set - GMK Merlin.
24k plated novelty is something that I am surprised I haven't seen yet. Really fun idea that I would assume would sell well.
Colorway is great. GLWIC!
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Set looks very familiar, but what bothers is the the lack of care on the renders how can you allow your design to be tarnished by simple fixes like that!, Its either whoever rendered this 1) does not care OR 2) rushed this so fast that they did not notice.
Good luck with IC&GB
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Set looks very familiar, but what bothers is the the lack of care on the renders how can you allow your design to be tarnished by simple fixes like that!, Its either whoever rendered this 1) does not care OR 2) rushed this so fast that they did not notice.
Good luck with IC&GB
wdym, the renders look completely fine
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Any chance the raffle (or however they're being sold) for the gold novelties will happen before the GB for this set closes? I do like the set, but with three keycap sets for every keyboard I own at the moment, it's mostly the gold cap that I'm most interested in (not to say the set isn't good; it's very nice). I would definitely buy the set to go with the gold keycap though should I be able to get one.
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ral1023 on ral1013 alpha kit plz!!
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This IC is pretty cool. It has been around for a while. Any updates from the OP?
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any update please?
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what's the name of the board in the second render?
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dont think the alphas speak enough to the theme, maybe more brownish to show the dusty mineshaft? I like the overall design though