I should have some news on when this is happening soon
In the meantime, please check out the novelties engicoder created for the set! Please voice any feedback you have
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It looks very good already! Just some minor observations maybe:
1) Some detailing might be too small for injection moulding? E.g. tiny dots on the floppy disk and thin lines and knobs on displays.
2) Might be better to spell "green scr" and "amber scr", otherwise it will look crammed. Also it would be interesting to have these as green / amber on gray - like a signature key.
3) It would be good to have more of floppy disk 1.25 novelties. It would be a challenge to find a place for an R3 1U novelties on a TKL. I would do each bottom R3 novelty in 1.25 as a most common size across all layouts, and keep existing 1u and 1.50u as is.
PS: it would be good to add just one little tiny ISO Enter in Green New Line novelty :).
PPS: what about styling community keys to the theme? E.g. current RMK key was drawn for Carbon SA if I am not mistaken.
1) Yup, engicoder reworked a few of them, check out the updated kit below!
2) Agreed, I went for SCRN, dropping just the vowels.
3) IMO the floppy wouldn't fit on the 1.25u as good since it's rather square. I think the current lineup of 2x 1u, 4x1.25u and 2x1.5u novelties is a good balance, as you mentioned 1.25u is the most common bottom row key.
4) Then I'd also need to add a beige ISO key, and they are rather expensive, adding 8$ or so to the kit. I think I'd rather make NEW LINE the default text on the return keys and not have it be a novelty.
5) Good point, I'll look into it.
On with the big news!
We will be launching the set on Massdrop come July, so about 2 weeks roughly.
New renders:
Changelog for kits:
- Dropped Extension kit, just one nice Modifiers kit now. SA Oblivion just came out and people are already running after leftover extension kits. I'd like to do things different and include all essential specialties in the regular mods.
- Updated Novelties kit
- Dropped accent keys from tenkeyless.asm kit, concerned about price as it wasn't really a smash hit in Oblivion (barely got to 75 units), this move should easily save 15$. I'd rather have it affordable, and I think having the keys in the same color suits the purpose best. You can use accent arrow keys and novelty R1 1u keys instead.
- Added Vim kit with permission of potatowire, thanks!