[IC] Keyboard & Co. GMK (LIVE)

[KetchyKech]

diamonds are forever, m8

in for 2 should this come to fruition 

[apolotary]

That novelty pack is pure gold. Can we have a 😏 keycap too, pretty please?

[Dernubenfrieken]

So FLFisherman convinced me to get some renders made, what a buster )

2 quick questions before I do:

- Should it be a TKL render? 60% is my jam & all I have but TKL might show off the set better.

- Would you rather have a base set of alphas + black mods with gray as optional kits or have the base be alphas with an option to go black or gray kind of like Deep Space with purple or blue kits? Maybe even scrap most of the the gray mods & just have a gray color pack for certain keys? Like enter & F1-4 + F9-12 etc.

I think the grey option kit might be a good idea. The sticker shock for 2 seperate mod packs at low MOQ can kill a set, and by just having one base set with slight additions makes the whole keyset more cohesive.

[UsualSuspectXXX]

So FLFisherman convinced me to get some renders made, what a buster )

2 quick questions before I do:

- Should it be a TKL render? 60% is my jam & all I have but TKL might show off the set better.

- Would you rather have a base set of alphas + black mods with gray as optional kits or have the base be alphas with an option to go black or gray kind of like Deep Space with purple or blue kits? Maybe even scrap most of the the gray mods & just have a gray color pack for certain keys? Like enter & F1-4 + F9-12 etc.

I'm all for the black mods. It creates much more contrast.

[switchnollie]

That novelty pack is pure gold. Can we have a 😏 keycap too, pretty please?

Haha maybe besides the Diamonds I might remove them to keep costs lower & just include geekhack keys etc.

I think the grey option kit might be a good idea. The sticker shock for 2 seperate mod packs at low MOQ can kill a set, and by just having one base set with slight additions makes the whole keyset more cohesive.

I was thinking that doing that might lower the price overall rather than buying alphas, mods & TKL kit too but I'm not sure.

I'll go that way since so far everyone's been for black mods.

The kits I have in mind now are the base(covers a standard TKL board), Tsangan, ISO, numpad, novelties & gray accent kit.

[Dernubenfrieken]

That novelty pack is pure gold. Can we have a 😏 keycap too, pretty please?

Haha maybe besides the Diamonds I might remove them to keep costs lower & just include geekhack keys etc.

I think the grey option kit might be a good idea. The sticker shock for 2 seperate mod packs at low MOQ can kill a set, and by just having one base set with slight additions makes the whole keyset more cohesive.

I was thinking that doing that might lower the price overall rather than buying alphas, mods & TKL kit too but I'm not sure.

I'll go that way since so far everyone's been for black mods.

The kits I have in mind now are the base(covers a standard TKL board), Tsangan, ISO, numpad, novelties & gray accent kit.

I personally love the diamonds and such, I might just take out some of the extra ones and combine them with the grey accent pack.

[switchnollie]

I personally love the diamonds and such, I might just take out some of the extra ones and combine them with the grey accent pack.

Noted, I am a fan of emoji's )

[UsualSuspectXXX]

I personally love the diamonds and such, I might just take out some of the extra ones and combine them with the grey accent pack.

Noted, I am a fan of emoji's )

My 2¢ on the novelties, I'm not a huge fan of the fire but the diamonds are pretty sweet! I really like having the CASH and MONEY keys but I don't really understand the purpose of EXIT and dive care too much for the SHINE.

[lashiel]

I love all the novelties, but I'm a total sucker for that, and I do understand that it brings the cost up. IMO go for as many as you feel you semi-realistically can.

[mashby]

I'd recommend adding a "GEEK HACK" key to the novelties. 

[CPTBadAss]

Definitely interested. I love Tiffany Blue, sneaker culture, and SA profile .

Edit: Also very into the novelty set.

[xondat]

Interested, but I prefer standard modifier names and not Hyper, Meta, etc.

[switchnollie]

My 2¢ on the novelties, I'm not a huge fan of the fire but the diamonds are pretty sweet! I really like having the CASH and MONEY keys but I don't really understand the purpose of EXIT and dive care too much for the SHINE.

Exit was kinda for like an exit sign of a store haha I scrapped it already, Shine was for shine like a diamond & that I like Super Smash Bros. Melee.

I'd recommend adding a "GEEK HACK" key to the novelties. 

Definitely! Already added in the updated mockup which hasn't been uploaded

Definitely interested. I love Tiffany Blue, sneaker culture, and SA profile .

Edit: Also very into the novelty set.

Thanks for the interest

Definitely sneaker culture inspired (fire emoji)

It's a shame SB stopped releasing decent stuff IMO, trainers have been looking very strong tho. Acquired some Coil R1's recently but ROOS are super uncommon in the states so I won't be getting more anytime soon )

I love all the novelties, but I'm a total sucker for that, and I do understand that it brings the cost up. IMO go for as many as you feel you semi-realistically can.

Yeah, I've decided to make gray caps a separate kit if since most if not everyone has favored black mods.

Doing so might just scrap the gray novelties which should help reduce space to add apolotary's smug emoji etc.

Interested, but I prefer standard modifier names and not Hyper, Meta, etc.

Hey xondat, I've actually changed them already. Just waiting on camper to work his magic before I update mockups

Control, Super, Alt, Space, Alt, Super, Meta, Control is currently the setup for a standard bottom row.

[xondat]

That'll do

[CPTBadAss]

Hey the grape SB dunks that came out this year were pretty cool. I'm heavy into runners though. Just picked up a pair of asics Gel Sights while I was traveling. ****ing love asics.

[switchnollie]

Hey the grape SB dunks that came out this year were pretty cool. I'm heavy into runners though. Just picked up a pair of asics Gel Sights while I was traveling. ****ing love asics.

Oh shoot those aren't bad, don't check up on them often but I don't know how I missed that one since I like grape.

No doubt, asics is at the top of the game right now.

[UsualSuspectXXX]

My 2¢ on the novelties, I'm not a huge fan of the fire but the diamonds are pretty sweet! I really like having the CASH and MONEY keys but I don't really understand the purpose of EXIT and dive care too much for the SHINE.

Exit was kinda for like an exit sign of a store haha I scrapped it already, Shine was for shine like a diamond & that I like Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up. I just noticed my auto-correct mistake from typing on mobile =P Can't wait to see the new renders!

[lishi]

Hey the grape SB dunks that came out this year were pretty cool. I'm heavy into runners though. Just picked up a pair of asics Gel Sights while I was traveling. ****ing love asics.

Oh shoot those aren't bad, don't check up on them often but I don't know how I missed that one since I like grape.

No doubt, asics is at the top of the game right now.

Asics are amazing. Sadly I only have one pair of Gel Lyte 3's right now


But this is a dope colorway. Loving the fire emoji and diamonds 

[switchnollie]

Updated, let me know what you think

[Steezus]

Ayyy, now that's what I'm talking about. The 3D renders look great. This is just my personal opinion but I feel like the grey lettering on the alphas should be a bit darker, kind of hard to see them.

[KetchyKech]

aww yis ~  looking smooth

[lolpes]

Ayyy, now that's what I'm talking about. The 3D renders look great. This is just my personal opinion but I feel like the grey lettering on the alphas should be a bit darker, kind of hard to see them.

I tought this as well, but the lighting might just blocking a bit on the renders, possible in real life the contrast could be more visible? Looking at the color chips side by side they seem to contrast pretty well.

[CPTBadAss]

Renders got me sold fam.

[xondat]

Ballin'

[lolpes]

Also a bit off a personal opinion, but since this is in IC phase i'll just trow it out there:

Why not have a last keys of the alphas rows (last 2 keys on row 3, last 2 keys on row 4, and last 2 keys on row 5) be the symetrical color of the alphas? or maybe include these keys also in the color splash kit with the black on grey colors?

[slushi]

In for 2, I like it and I have a feeling I'll need a second set for the SO

[Dernubenfrieken]

Love the pack execution, novelties, everything. Straight fire. One thing you might want to add are black spacebars. And maybe put the iso and numpad splashes in a different kit? Like add the grey mods by default to numpad and both iso enters/blanks to an iso kit.

[UsualSuspectXXX]

The renders look amazing! Also, I second darkening the legends on the alphas to match with the darker mods. I think it would make it all pop a little bit better.

[switchnollie]

Thanks for the input everyone

Also a bit off a personal opinion, but since this is in IC phase i'll just trow it out there:

Why not have a last keys of the alphas rows (last 2 keys on row 3, last 2 keys on row 4, and last 2 keys on row 5) be the symetrical color of the alphas? or maybe include these keys also in the color splash kit with the black on grey colors?

Sorry pes, I'm not quite sure what you're trying to get at

Are you talking about adding blue mods?

Love the pack execution, novelties, everything. Straight fire. One thing you might want to add are black spacebars. And maybe put the iso and numpad splashes in a different kit? Like add the grey mods by default to numpad and both iso enters/blanks to an iso kit.

Thanks thanks, yeah totally gonna have a lil spacebar section like most buys have.

Yeah that makes perfect sense tho, not a lot of people use numpads(from what I see anyway).

Can combine the gray ISO enter with the black ISO enter & short shift into an ISO kit as well

That should definitely reduce the amount of people having keycaps they won't use

The renders look amazing! Also, I second darkening the legends on the alphas to match with the darker mods. I think it would make it all pop a little bit better.

True, it would definitely have more contrast but I feel like it would stray a bit too far from the silver, "swoosh" since that's the closest color to silver SP has.

The renders are a bit brighter than the chip photos & I'd agree with pes that they'd look more visible IRL.

Kind of like the yellow caps from CMYW, white on yellow is f'sure not contrasty(is that a word?) ) but you can still see them fine in person.

Plus there's already a lot of high contrast keysets right?

[bocahgundul]

damn bro that is really really beautiful!

[ApocalypseMaow]

Gottem

[Zapheo]

Gottem

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Is that you? If so, lookin' clean bro.

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I wasn't sold on the grey on blue originally, but those renders look fantastic!

[whmeltonjr]

This set looks great. I have some custom putters with the Tiffany blue theme, so I'll be watching this set closely for sure.

[switchnollie]

Gonna work on updating the kits again sometime this week most likely.

Making ISO a separate kit, listing spacebars for addon & moving the gray numpad to the numpad kit.

There might be a bit more but so far everyone seems fine with what the base kit includes etc

[xondat]

Going to be hard to chose between this and Flatline

[switchnollie]

Going to be hard to chose between this and Flatline

I'll be waiting until Flatline is finished(I think the buy should be starting soon-ish?) before I go to the GB phase since I know a lot off people want to get that after seeing recent events

[UsualSuspectXXX]

Going to be hard to chose between this and Flatline

My thoughts exactly! I might just have to do both 

[xondat]

Going to be hard to chose between this and Flatline

I'll be waiting until Flatline is finished(I think the buy should be starting soon-ish?) before I go to the GB phase since I know a lot off people want to get that after seeing recent events

I'm kind of worried that because that happened first, yours won't get as many but not much you can do about that to be honest, however they are different so I could just be bull****ting.

[FLFisherman]

The renders look amazing. And that keyboard on hardwood floor? 

I'm not sure if anyone else agrees with me here, but the legends on the alphas appear a little hard to read.

[switchnollie]

Going to be hard to chose between this and Flatline

I'll be waiting until Flatline is finished(I think the buy should be starting soon-ish?) before I go to the GB phase since I know a lot off people want to get that after seeing recent events

I'm kind of worried that because that happened first, yours won't get as many but not much you can do about that to be honest, however they are different so I could just be bull****ting.

This was actually posted before Flatline if that's what you meant
I'm busy working on sleeves & want to see how Flatline + that other set roll out.
Don't wanna make you have to choose between 2 sets either since the majority can't buy 2 SA sets at once
I also read that SA is a no go for new sets until April & this would fall in that category since I haven't contacted SP yet.

Very stoked that you're interested in my set tho!

The renders look amazing. And that keyboard on hardwood floor? 

I'm not sure if anyone else agrees with me here, but the legends on the alphas appear a little hard to read.

Thanks Fisherman

I think that's mostly just the renders tho, it looks very bright & well lit making even the black keys look brighter than Booper's shots.

[xondat]

I followed this before all the banter of Flatline went down, so might be getting this. You're correct with the April thing I think, so there isn't any rush.

[Niomosy]

Curious to see what pricing is going to be on this with the supposed SA cap increases per SP.

[UsualSuspectXXX]

Also interested in what pricing is going to look like here. The is a possibility that Flatline will be produced in another profile (maybe GMK =] ) which could give you a nice boost in support for this set.

[harlw]

Render looks fab

[switchnollie]

Curious to see what pricing is going to be on this with the supposed SA cap increases per SP.

Also interested in what pricing is going to look like here. The is a possibility that Flatline will be produced in another profile (maybe GMK =] ) which could give you a nice boost in support for this set.

Yeah I just read about that, very unfortunate

I like GMK but Sifo's direction with SA is the right way IMO.

It looks like Massdrop will be the only option to go with price-wise, which I don't mind.

[UsualSuspectXXX]

I don't mind going with Massdrop either, or a PMK gb (they use nice boxes!) if anything you have a little extra assurance and you have someone to turn to if you get damaged or missing keys.

[Niomosy]

Given the business MassDrop has been able to do with SP, it's a fine way to go.

[switchnollie]

I don't mind going with Massdrop either, or a PMK gb (they use nice boxes!) if anything you have a little extra assurance and you have someone to turn to if you get damaged or missing keys.

Besides the cool boxes, is there any big difference from using Massdrop compared to PMK that you know of?

[CPTBadAss]

In my experience and what I've seen, it seems like PMK/SP has better shipping. MD shipping has been questionable. And I'm not just saying that because of TA. I've had other stuff from MD come in bad packaging.

I'd really like to see this set be on my board but I'm conflicted with the info we got from Flatline