Really ready to drop mad money on this set.
But getting kinda confused as to what sets are going to be running now, with all these changes.
I like your signature! Cheers for supporting the set.
Hi so people were a bit confused with the kitting changes made thus far, and what the final kits look like. Been slowly doublechecking kits, so here is a snapshot of the production vector files. Primarily:
The Novelties kit
Ukiyo-E has been rejigged. We removed duplicate keys that were legacy due to original R5 profile (now the top row is only R4).
An additional novelties kit called
Seigaiha was added.
The
Mons kit had some design changes.
All the alpha keys now come with both 6.25u and 7u spacebars (shifted from the mods). I believe this is a bit friendlier for ortho users who like a big rod.
A 'base' kit (
Aizuri-E) has been added for beginners who might be a bit confused with all the kit options. See the final kit at the bottom of the following list. Note the f-row keys in this are not colour gradient compatible with compressed 75% layouts where the f-row keys are non-exploded, or TKLs with F13.
Ergo kit has also been slimmed substantially down to reduce price. I've still kept some novelties, but much less.
A big shout out goes to Oli (of SA Geoma) who suggested a Seigaiha kit and helped clean up some of the novelty vectors for production.
Kentô (Kits)
- Registration marks carved into each woodblock so that the paper can be properly aligned on each woodblock during printing -
※ [Base Kit] - Aizuri-e (藍摺絵)
Alphas
※ [Latin] - Berlin Blue
※ [Katakana] - Kanagawa (神奈川)
※ [Hiragana sublegends] - Hokusai (北斎)
※ [Katakana sublegends] - Ōnami (大波)
Modifiers
※ [Icon] - Spray
※ [Text] - Swell
※ [Japanese] - Umi (海) [Sea]
ƒ-Row
※ [Standard] - Foam
※ [Kanji] - Fuji
Number Pad
※ [Arabic + Kanji /Gradient] - Nami
※ [Arabic /Gradient] - Shoreline
※ [Kanji /Gradient] - Soroban
※ [Arabic + Kanji /White] - Froth
※ [Arabic /Blue] - Thirty-six Views
※ [Arabic + Kanji /Blue] - Depths
Extras
※ [Novelties] - Ukiyo-e (浮世絵)
- 'pictures of the floating world'; art produced in Japan in the 16th-19th century. Ukiyo was originally a Buddhist phrase meaning 'the floating world' used to explain that human life passed quickly, and later became used to describe the pleasures of life -
※ [Seigaiha Novelties] - Seigaiha (青海波)
- 'blue sea and waves'; a pattern of layered concentric circles creating arches, symbolic of waves of the open sea and representing surges of good luck. Stemming from the 6th Century, and used on ancient maps and, this motif is prolific in Japanese print
※ [Mons Novelties] - Mons
Essentially serves the purposes of 'Blanks' for supplementing Orthos, and XT-layouts (side F-row columns)
※ [Spacebar] - Sandbar
※ [40s/Ortho - Icon] - Oshiokuri-bune
※ [40s/Ortho - Japanese] - Baren
※ [Ergo] - Edo
※ [Mac] - Ringo
※ [Colemak+Mod-DH] - Coastal
More
Colemak Mod-DH for ANSI, ISO and matrix-like keyboards, including wide configurations and DHk has been catered for too Other Language Kits
※ [Nordic] - Ægir
※ [German] - Die große Welle
※ [South / Spanish, Portuguese & Italian ] - La Gran Ola
※ [French] - La Grande Vague
※ [JIS - Latin Alphas + Mods] - Horishi