GB DATE: October 10th, 2022 - November 10th, 2022
Previously, the set had been delayed, but we have now received confirmation from zFrontier/Keyreative that October 10th will be the GB date!
Hello fellow keeb enthusiasts! Straight from the realms of my overworked, sleep deprived grad student brain, I want to finally introduce you to a keycap set I have been working on all year, called KAMistry. KAMistry aims to bring elements (pun fully intended) of chemistry (and biology) into your keeb. The four main colors of the set (teal, light blue, light grey, and dark grey) were inspired by my repeated trips to my lab’s trusty -80 freezer. Because you can’t tell me you haven’t just looked at a freezer before and thought to yourself “Damn, that’s a nice looking freezer.” Complete with a grey face and a bright blue LED screen graced with a teal bezel, this gargantuan freezing lab companion was just begging to be used as an inspiration for pieces of matte PBT plastic.
As the name implies, this set will be in KAM profile. For those that are not familiar with the KAM profile, here is a diagram for you compared to KAT and Cherry. You can compare other profiles to it as well here:
https://www.keycaps.info/stackI have done my best to ensure the colors look accurate to the Pantones. However, do keep in mind that color can vary depending on the screen that it is viewed on. The best way to see what a color will look like as the end product is to check the pantone code in a physical guide. Samples will be ordered for comparison to those pantones!
Kits
As always, kitting is subject to change following the interest check phase.
Alphas
Alphas - Periodic
Homing
Homing - Periodic
Text mods
Icon mods
Numpad
Numpad - Alternative
Novelties
Novelties - text
Spacebars
40s text
40s icon
QAZ text
QAZ icon
Ergo text
Ergo icon
Maroon accent
Orange accent
Grey accent
Blue accent
NorDe
German
UK
French
Deskmats
Two deskmats will be made for this set, both of which have been designed by myself.
Artisans
Archetype
KeyBee Manufacturing aluminum enter artisan
Rocket Keyboards Glow-Ion-The-Dark escape artisan
NZ Caps rotary encoder knob
Straight from the lab of the evil incredibly kind geniuses at NZ caps, I bring you your KAMistry rotary encoder knob, available for purchase through the NZ caps store during the GB period!
Keyboard renders
Argon40 by TheBlackHammer
QAZ by tominabox1
Zodiark by Split Logic Keyboards
Twoyo by rainkeebs
Watarah by Glow
MB44 by MelonBred
Paintbrush by Yung Zeus
Ikki68 Aurora by Wuque Studio
Mode SixtyFive by Mode Designs
Ilex by FFKeebs
Isometria by ebastler
Fuji65 by CMM Studio
M60-A by Rama Works
Vendors
US – Rocket Keyboards
CA - AshKeebs
EU – MyKeyboard
UK – Protozoa
Asia - zFrontier
OCE – Daily Clack
SEA - PantheonKeys
Japan - Yushakobo
Mexico - Rheset
India - rectangles.store
Digital Carpentry wrist rest collab!
KAMistry has teamed up with the amazing Digital Carpentry to design a professional, wooden, science-themed wrist rest. Samples are below! I decided to go with the benzene ring icon for mine, but you will have an option of a couple icons, including the benzene ring and atom novelty, along with an option of walnut or maple. Even cooler, you'll have options on size of the wrist rest and where you want the icon! For this sample, I wanted the hexane ring to always be visible, even when typing (top image).
The following design will be a third option available. No, it's not an actual element, but it looks darn good as one if I do say so myself.
Follow this project!
Forget needing a paid subscription to a journal. For once in science, you can get the latest updates for free! Join my NA vendor’s discord to follow updates of KAMistry.
While I may not have done something spectacular enough to receive the Nobel Prize, I do feel as though I need to thank some people for help with creating this set. So, like any good scientific paper, I would like to acknowledge the following for their help and support:
The entire PDXKBC discord. There are too many of y’all there who helped me, so I can’t list all of you unfortunately, but you have been the driving force behind this set coming to fruition.
SJ for his case file and for bouncing ideas off of.
Nathan (of GMK Iceberg fame) for answering my dumb questions about rendering.
Cadvahn for doing post-processing edits on the renders for color accuracy.
GentleBear for making materials for me in blender. He isn’t a keyboard nerd like us (yet) so I’m not sure he’ll ever see this, but his help was invaluable.
ThiccWicc for helping me with all aspects of making this set.
And of course RocketCables for answering my questions and putting up with me as I slowly figure this process out.
To-do list
Select and announce vendors
Announce wrist rest collab
Add second deskmat option
Add more renders, especially of the periodic alphas kit
Announce artisans and artisan collabs
Announce GB date
Announce pricing
Group Buy!!!
