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New URSA keycaps profile for Topre keyboards

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zslane:
I love the idea of turning my Realforce 104U into the equivalent of a HighProfile Realforce with some nice, tall spherical keycaps.

phinix:

--- Quote from: zslane on Fri, 19 April 2024, 10:50:07 ---I love the idea of turning my Realforce 104U into the equivalent of a HighProfile Realforce with some nice, tall spherical keycaps.

--- End quote ---

Yep, I'm thinking of grabbing that Minicom set.

Hucifer:
Logged into GH for the first time in ten years just to say that I would be happy to take one set of black alphas + mods + extension kits, should any end up going spare.

Just bought my first Topre board and am gutted to have missed the pre-order on these funky-lookin' caps.

~ hucifer

jacobolus:
Kudos for this. Seems broadly similar to old school Alps dished caps, e.g. from Canon typewriters of the 1980s, or signature plastics's DSS profile but with a deeper scoop and perhaps more aggressive step between rows. Big thumbs up for more keycaps of this style, for any type of switches. Also nice work making convex thumb keys.

For folks who didn't click through, here's the drawing from ursa.fkcaps.com:

and here are Alps Canon typewriter caps from the side:


For reference, Canon typewriter caps from above:

SP's DSS:


(Nobody's asking my advice, but in my opinion you get faster and more accurate typing if you get even more aggressive with the step on the upper rows, e.g. leave the Z row alone, use either A- or Q-row keycaps on the A row, use 1-row keycaps on the Q row, and make an even taller set of keycaps for the number and F rows, or I guess take some from a Hi-Pro set. See https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=62417.msg1459093 for more. But maybe that's too hard a sell to a wide audience. Anyway, this looks significantly better than the stock profile.)

Aside: it would be great to also have a ISO/JIS enter key on any kind of Topre project, since there are so many Japanese Topre keyboards out there. Or even tiny 2.5u and 3.5u spacebars for full support.

Alex-DM:
Really good looking keycaps. Since many of us swap Control and Caps Lock keys, could you please add a 1,25u R5 Caps Lock? That would be great.

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