Folks,
I mentioned in passing last month that the polycarb orange on white keys were tests. What were they tests for? Well, they were tests for this key. For those who aren't familiar with it, the key is a classic geekhack legend; it made its first appearance in round 3 in the nostalgia orange on grey theme:
![](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/eddie84/OCN/Mech%20keyboard%20club/key%20caps/DSC08708.jpg)
(courtesy reaper)
I wanted to remake it, but I also wanted to try 1st shot polycarb. We knew that 1st shot polycarb would need special attention to contrast and legend to key proportions to make the keys really pop, so we ran a few tests -- those ended up being the late march keys. Having deemed those a success, I had these made:
![](http://i.imgur.com/5R4n1RG.jpg)
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![](http://i.imgur.com/5NauGZ2.jpg)
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They match the late march key (and techkeys' complementary keys), and are a prelude to something even cooler:
First, geekhack will be paying to finish cutting the cherry font legends with signature plastics. We will be doing so with cash on hand plus the proceeds of this sale.
Second, we will be making an entire set of polycarb keys. In standard configuration, the alphanumerics of this set will be 1st shot polycarb on white. The modifiers will be 1st shot white on polycarb. The legends, of course, will all be cherry font
.Because geekhack will be dirt poor after paying for the rest of the cherry legends, the group buy for this set will include a modest contribution to geekhack. As penance, the staff will probably be ganging up at Ron's office to sort and ship everything again
![Wink ;)](https://cdn.geekhack.org/Smileys/solosmileys/wink.gif)
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The keys themselves will go up on
techkeys.us forthwith! Pricing will be 12$ for one keycap with 100% of proceeds paying for cherry legend tooling.