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[IC] GMK Monokai Material - Launches September 4th
« on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:29:12 »
Hello,

I have a new IDE themed keyset for you. Monokai is very popular, but I personally never really liked the standard warm version, it's too dolchy for me. I prefer colder grays, so after a lot of experimenting and rendering I opted for the Material version of the theme. Additionally, I am making this one with a single base color unlike Oblivion/Penumbra/Dracula/Solarized Dark. Lastly, seeing the Git Base Kit in Oblivion V2 being most successful, I chose to have those as the default legends for this run. I really don't want to offer multiple Base Kits in the first appearance of this set, but I will very strongly consider running a Regular Base Kit by itself once this has shipped after a successful group buy, so a Round 1.5 I guess.

The colors will be matched to RAL tones. I will pursue having the base color matched and finalized before the launch of the group buy as this color is vital for the set to come out great. The RAL's I am currently eyeing for this are Stahlblau and Tiefseeblau. The other colors should be much easier to match so I will do those between GB closing and production start as is the norm with most GMK keysets.

Kit wise, I want to focus on the basics. There's a Base Kit that covers everything essential and the 40bit kit for Ortholinear/40%/Split keyboard users. The 40bit kit is still Work in Progress because I need to go through all the layouts again and make sure the color/legend distribution works well on everything. The color distribution will be different especially for the Ortholinear layouts compared to how I did it on Oblivion V2, and the current kit forces arrows be used on the bottom row for those. I am not sure if I want to add Colevrak/International kits.





No1.60 Rev1 by Keycult






No2 Rev1 WKL by Keycult






Sar by Zambumon




Kei by Monokei




Vendors
EU: oblotzky.industries
US: novelkeys.xyz
CAN: deskhero.ca
AUS: dailyclack.com
SEA: monokei.co
CN: zFrontier.com

Pricing
Finalizing

Date
September 4th 2020 until [roughly 4 weeks later]

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« Last Edit: Sun, 30 August 2020, 17:54:12 by Oblotzky »

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:31:15 »
nice

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:33:31 »
I'm interested in Colevrak

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:35:48 »
Interested in the round 1.5 regular base kit run.

Offline LXVRGS

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:35:53 »
yes

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:39:25 »
clean
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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:39:31 »
This reminds me of Solarized Dark alpha with Dracula mod


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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:42:36 »
Big fan of Monokai, been wondering when someone would do this. I personally don't think I need it as a keyset, but it's good to see someone working on it.
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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:43:25 »
nice

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 12:53:05 »
Looking forward to the Regular Base Kit in Round 1.5.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:02:01 »
me: why do you keep spending money like this
also me: spends more money like this

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:11:22 »
Is there any way we can get a light alpha kit preferably in WS2 color?

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:12:27 »
I would be in for an Assembly Kit.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #13 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:13:15 »
Is there any way we can get a light alpha kit preferably in WS2 color?

I have been authorized to answer to that question by Oblotzky:

No.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #14 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:15:19 »
Is there any way we can get a light alpha kit preferably in WS2 color?

I have been authorized to answer to that question by Oblotzky:

No.

thanks for the answer. The base kit looks really nice, will be in for one.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #15 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:15:59 »
Is there any way we can get a light alpha kit preferably in WS2 color?

I have been authorized to answer to that question by Oblotzky:

No.

thanks for the answer. The base kit looks really nice, will be in for one.

Yes, same energy

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #16 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:17:40 »
Weeb alphas please. Thank you!

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #17 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:22:09 »
I'll accept your proposal. It's a bit late, it being like 2 years now since I sent you all the color code examples, but better than never :P

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #18 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:23:50 »
Nice. Always been a fan of Molokai (https://emacsthemes.com/themes/molokai-theme.html) myself. Even though I'm still disappointed and somewhat cautious of sets like this after Solarized Dark I might considering picking this up...
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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #19 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:26:27 »
Please consider r2 1.75u backspace in the 40s kit!

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #20 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:35:09 »
Nice. Always been a fan of Molokai (https://emacsthemes.com/themes/molokai-theme.html) myself. Even though I'm still disappointed and somewhat cautious of sets like this after Solarized Dark I might considering picking this up...

Very understandable, which is why I am working with RAL colors (GMK's plastic supplier has more accuracy with those, Solarized Dark was 'matched' against HEX values if memory serves right), and want to get the base color done sampling much earlier.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #21 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 13:57:41 »
Yes! I've been using Monokai in my IDE's since forever, was wondering when somebody will finally do this!

I wonder how some inverted dark gray on magenta accents would work with this...

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #22 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 14:01:19 »
nice

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #23 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 14:24:30 »
Interested in base + 40bit

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #24 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 14:54:05 »
just let me subscribe to your sets, they're my faves.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #25 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 15:02:44 »
ASCII alphas?
...
No? Hm.
....
Cadet alphas?

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #26 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 15:41:16 »
Sweet! I just threw together the poor mans version of this set (GMK Oblivion V2 GIT mods with GMK Nines alphas) & really like the look of it. Think I'll be down for a set of this!

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #27 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 15:42:49 »
Interested in either base plus NorDe for my programmer friend or base plus Colevrak++ for my programmer self :) Love the look!

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #28 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 15:49:17 »
*jacknicholsonnods.gif*

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #29 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 15:56:42 »
I'd like a 40's kit pls.

Question though.. is it possible to get a 1u r4 green Apply? I guess it doesn't really matter, but I'd prefer r4 "enter" for planck / preonic.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #30 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:09:12 »
This is hot enough that I'm almost forgetting my wishes for SA Oblivion R2. I'm in.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #31 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:13:04 »
40s kit is hardly a 40s kit. It's missing some vital keys. I'd pair it with with the Dracula 40's kit but then it's hardly a Monokai theme.
And that's the issue. It's hardly a Monokai theme at all.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #32 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:15:04 »
40s kit is hardly a 40s kit. It's missing some vital keys. I'd pair it with with the Dracula 40's kit but then it's hardly a Monokai theme.
And that's the issue. It's hardly a Monokai theme at all.

Could you point out the keys that are missing? This would help me greatly in improving that kit.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #33 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:22:16 »
The 1.25 Commit key is a welcome addition but this is a more complete 40s kit.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #34 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:25:15 »
The 1.25 Commit key is a welcome addition but this is a more complete 40s kit.

The only difference I can see is the lack of Minivan keys (R2 1.75u and R4 1.75u), the rest is provided when buying both kits.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #35 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:34:41 »
Wait, are you one of those designers that's trying to boycott Evan even though TheKeyCompany now makes Van keyboards?

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #36 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:37:04 »
The 1.25 Commit key is a welcome addition but this is a more complete 40s kit.

The only difference I can see is the lack of Minivan keys (R2 1.75u and R4 1.75u), the rest is provided when buying both kits.

Man...I do like a lot of your stuff, but I cannot in good faith support someone who continues to drop Minivan support, even now that Evan doesn't own the company anymore.  I may only be 1 person, but you continually lose out on an additional buyer of your sets each time. 

Hope you change your perspective one day. 

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #37 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:54:37 »
In for weeb/ascii subs  ;D

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #38 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 16:57:29 »
this is fun
ne icon mod kit like space cadet?

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #39 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 17:09:58 »
Yes, I will buy every terminal/ide/text editor color scheme inspired set.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #40 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 17:16:14 »
I like it but why is there a R3 and R4 pipe backslash key? I'm not aware of any layout that has both of these, or a layout that uses R3 pipe backslash.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #41 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 17:28:06 »
I like it but why is there a R3 and R4 pipe backslash key? I'm not aware of any layout that has both of these, or a layout that uses R3 pipe backslash.

Physical ISO coverage/ISO-US. Also some 40% layouts.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #42 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 17:33:16 »
The 1.25 Commit key is a welcome addition but this is a more complete 40s kit.

The only difference I can see is the lack of Minivan keys (R2 1.75u and R4 1.75u), the rest is provided when buying both kits.

Man...I do like a lot of your stuff, but I cannot in good faith support someone who continues to drop Minivan support, even now that Evan doesn't own the company anymore.  I may only be 1 person, but you continually lose out on an additional buyer of your sets each time. 

Hope you change your perspective one day. 

GLWB

I agree with this. Please consider including Minivan support.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #43 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 17:35:12 »
this is fun
ne icon mod kit like space cadet?

Actually i think that would work pretty well with those colors.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #44 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 17:37:57 »
more van bull****

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #45 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 17:57:26 »
The 1.25 Commit key is a welcome addition but this is a more complete 40s kit.

The only difference I can see is the lack of Minivan keys (R2 1.75u and R4 1.75u), the rest is provided when buying both kits.

Actually the R4 1.75u isn't MV exclusive, as it is necessary to provide proper stragger on most 40% boards. Looks like that is part of the base kit already. Good luck with the IC and eventual GB.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #46 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 20:20:11 »
Nice. I would buy this.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #47 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 20:32:51 »
seconding hiney. i think icon mod would be hot

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #48 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 20:42:18 »
Single-line PgUp and PgDn, please. R3 PgUp and R4 PgDn too, please.

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Re: [IC] GMK Monokai Material
« Reply #49 on: Mon, 16 March 2020, 21:43:24 »
I'm interested!