After adding the alt alphas, I honestly fell in love with them. From what I have seen, the community seems to love them too. Currently, I am unsure what is more popular and just in case it is the "vocal minority" talking, please VOTE below! This is to determine what color alphas will be in the base kit. Your vote matters, so please vote!
Important IC form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaKmeTd1pCl2sXm_rgaDPXD4l_YTyc254lcHJsbpBkkwsRcQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Also added to the bottom of the original post!
I didn't expect that such a big change would even be considered, thanks for that and I am happy to see that you also love your set like that.
I don't know how many people check geekhack and respond to those forms.
But if you want more feedback, you can check apiarykeyboards latest twitch VOD ( Whats New In Keyboards 1/28, starts at 01:14:00 in the vod ), where they discuss your set with Alexotos and both of them and chat seem much in favor of the current Alt alphas as the base set.
-In this IC form you mentioned considering removing the grey alphas.
If that was to happen, would you consider offering a reversed "current alt alphas" kit? (It's getting a bit confusing. So Pantone 7401 C cream keys with Pantone 296 C navy letters. Basically just a reversed light version to use with the current modifiers). I generally always liked dark modifiers with light alphas, but maybe it only looks good in my head.
-If the base kit alphas colored is changed (and grey potentially removed all together), would we see more cream keys? Such as cream split Spacebars, maybe more cream novelties (return of the cream arrows (with stars) in the novelties kit?)
Thank you a ton for all of this. Honestly, it was really helpful. I do have an idea on how I want to go forward with this set, but I want to give a chance to more people to see the form. Also, I scrolled through the form results and there were definitely multiple entries, so I turned on email sign-in. That was a mistake on my part, and although I can not pinpoint all of the fraud ones, I am sure I got rid of most of it.
Without leaking on what exactly I will do (since I am awaiting more form entries), I will at least say that an alt alphas kit will exist regardless of the decision, and it will not be inverse colors of the current alt alphas. First off, I do want to clear up that it is a very pale yellow, so I don't want the community to mistaken it for a "cream" (just in case some people are seeing a white variant; I had a couple of people ask about this). Secondly, I want this set to be relatively dark, and when I gave it a chance and rendered it I honestly hated it.
So TL;DR, there will be an alt alphas kit, and it will be one of the existing ones. Kitting will change though regardless of which alphas it is to include more spacebars and maybe a few other keys (without hurting the price too much).
There will be an update soon on what will come up next with this set. Thank you again for all of the help, comments, and pointers!
