Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome

[dko2o]

superheroes!
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[Incarnage]

Assassins creed weapon icons anyone? Made these 6.



Update(With Bow and Dart)
Link of Images
Credit to hazelhuff for the key templete .svg thing

[jcrouse]

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X's and O's could be placed different and colors changed. Just a thought. The"edge" around the top of the cap (the thin black line that actually isn't there) actually makes it look a little worse, I think.

[Zustiur]

whiskerBox's post at the end of page 2 made me think it would be cool to replace the standard alpha keys with signlanguage symbols of the corresponding letters.

I'm more interested in the little bumps you get on the home keys (F and J). I have an A4 Tech KBS-720 which has really findable nubs on those keys. (or maybe I'm in the wrong thread for that?)

[minifridge]

Big Aphex Twin fan, wondering if anyone else would like this~

[Thion]

Not a design, but an idea: Transparent Key Caps with dyesub / Infill that is UV Active, with UV-LEDs... should look pretty sweet, i'd imagine... and since there are different colors, a RGBY Kit would be doable

[i3oilermaker]

We have tried to do doubleshots with clear, but SP will not do it.  Also tried with glow in the dark...blanks only.

[dorkvader]

We have tried to do doubleshots with clear, but SP will not do it.  Also tried with glow in the dark...blanks only.

"Clear" PBT is a rather neutral colour, if I recall correctly, and in theory you could Dyesub UV reactive ink into it.

Also, with enough interest, anything is possible with Chinese Manufacturing. SP is not the only option.

[longweight]

Not sure if this has been done before:

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[zirb]

^ I think it has NOD been done before

[HeyZeus]

Tri-Lambda logo?

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[Netdewt]

Where can I get the SP stock font for mock ups?

[Djuzuh]

ask hazelstuff

[Netdewt]

Well, whatever, here's Helvetica. The idea is just to do a set of random sayings and words people like to match SP sets. I did this in white on dark gray because I have R3 and that's what I'd want.



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[hazeluff]

Where can I get the SP stock font for mock ups?

I don't have it either. I just use arial (iirc).

[aeta]

26 Doubleshot keycaps, 26 letters of the alphabet with their respective points in scrabble

[hazeluff]

So we can play scrabble with our keycaps instead of scrabble bits parts?

The board would a matrix of black switches and the score bonuses are shown using different colored switches?

[SaiZn]

So we can play scrabble with our keycaps instead of scrabble bits parts?

The board would a matrix of black switches and the score bonuses are shown using different colored switches?

Haha. That would actually be cool although resetting the game would be a pain.

[mediocrechris]

I posted this suggestion in its own thread the other day, but I'll repeat it here. I would love a keycap with the Ducky logo on it that is compatable with the Shine keyboards. I don't merely want a Ducky Logo keycap, I know those are available. I want a Ducky logo keycap that will allow the LED to shine through. I would use it as my esc key, I think. God, I love the Ducky logo.

[aeta]

So we can play scrabble with our keycaps instead of scrabble bits parts?

The board would a matrix of black switches and the score bonuses are shown using different colored switches?

If the keycaps were created, I would imagine them being sold in sets of 1. the whole alphabet+blank 2. 100 keycaps with multiplers and blank (normal scrabble)

[TheSoulhunter]

How about the Quake 3 icons?

[damorgue]

Does SP have any plastics which are translucent, or smoky semi translucent to be used in double shots?

[mkawa]

they do, but i don't believe they'll use them in double shots.

[MadScientist46]

How about the Quake 3 icons?

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IMPRESSIVE! I'd die for a set with all weapon icons!

[Djuzuh]

Does SP have any plastics which are translucent, or smoky semi translucent to be used in double shots?

They won't use it for doubleshots.

[damorgue]

Does SP have any plastics which are translucent, or smoky semi translucent to be used in double shots?

They won't use it for doubleshots.

I guessed that, since there are none to be found and if there was an option like this, it would have been done before.

I wonder though, making the second shot would be fairly easy with say, polyester resin. It is readily available and can be colored from completely translucent to smoky in different colors to a solid color. Could a GB be arranged where we bought caps from SP where only the first shot has been made, so that we can just cover the top, put it upside down and pour in glue or resin to make it a double shot with translucent legend?

[Djuzuh]

Does SP have any plastics which are translucent, or smoky semi translucent to be used in double shots?

They won't use it for doubleshots.

I guessed that, since there are none to be found and if there was an option like this, it would have been done before.

I wonder though, making the second shot would be fairly easy with say, polyester resin. It is readily available and can be colored from completely translucent to smoky in different colors to a solid color. Could a GB be arranged where we bought caps from SP where only the first shot has been made, so that we can just cover the top, put it upside down and pour in glue or resin to make it a double shot with translucent legend?

Isn't it easier to ask Sleabo for backlit custom keys ?

[damorgue]

Does SP have any plastics which are translucent, or smoky semi translucent to be used in double shots?

They won't use it for doubleshots.

I guessed that, since there are none to be found and if there was an option like this, it would have been done before.

I wonder though, making the second shot would be fairly easy with say, polyester resin. It is readily available and can be colored from completely translucent to smoky in different colors to a solid color. Could a GB be arranged where we bought caps from SP where only the first shot has been made, so that we can just cover the top, put it upside down and pour in glue or resin to make it a double shot with translucent legend?

Isn't it easier to ask Sleabo for backlit custom keys ?

I don't follow, do you mean the three color inlay thingies?

[Djuzuh]

Sleabo offers custom backlit keys since a month or so.

[damorgue]

I can't find them. Not on QWERKeys site and if they are in the forum, the pics are gone. Link?

[i3oilermaker]

Are you referring to the "B Series"?

http://www.qwerkeys.co.uk/pages/keycaps-info

[Djuzuh]

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=32663.0

Pics are down however. But those are backlit compatible keycaps.

[damorgue]

I kind of don't like those. I am looking for keys with translucent legends. He can only make the sides and top translucent if I am read correctly a while back?

[Djuzuh]

ask him directly, I don't know this.

[TypicalKeyboardJockey]

Replace WASD with 1337
thats kind simple
I think having a Lambada Symbol should be standard on all keyboards
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[ACallander]

Has anyone though about a minecraft  style keycap?


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[zirb]

creeper and some other icons like the axe exist, I think they where produced by imsto

[Djuzuh]

creeper and some other icons like the axe exist, I think they where produced by imsto

It's the changdrew GB that got cancelled.

[damorgue]

Has anyone though about a minecraft  style keycap?


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There was a group buy for a failed design which had wrong colors. I think it was a creeper-face with green on white instead of black on green. There were a couple of other keys as well.

[OmgVitaminE]

I like the scrabble idea, and I could go for a silhouette of a zergling instead of my z key for old time's sake. Something like this

[i3oilermaker]

I could go for a silhouette of a zergling instead of my z key for old time's sake

Like the idea - but that is a lot of detail to shrink down to a key even for a dyesub

[poxeclipse]

Did somebody propose a Olympic Games logo cap ?
Or, a set with all the logos used at Olympic Games for different sports ?

[thepurpleplatypus]

Has anyone ever seen a tree cap before?  I've never really looked into custom keycaps before, but I was thinking about how cool it would be to have a white tree on this color green: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=34459.0.  Obviously that's very specific, but if anyone has ever seen a tree cap before, I'd love it if you could let me know!

[Djuzuh]

by tree, you mean the wood kind of thing or an r/trees reference?

[thepurpleplatypus]

Haha no I mean the woody kind of tree, something like this: http://www.arthursclipart.org/silhouettes/plants/tree02.gif.

EDIT: I'm thinking I'll just custom design it at wasdkeyboards.com, I was just wondering if anyone had seen one before and what they had thought of it.

[OmgVitaminE]

Like the idea - but that is a lot of detail to shrink down to a key even for a dyesub

Yeah, if I were to actually make the key I would prefer a more simple version, just searched and got that without any real work

[sealcouch]

I think it would be killer to have a dye sub cherry set that is directly modeled after the IBM Model M keys.

[sealcouch]

I got bored and made a model m escape key with a cherry stem.

[damorgue]

Media keys, Play and pause next and prev, mute volume up and down, calculator, foobar icon or music note, notepad/word/typing program icon

Summary: Media keys and keys for common programs in several colours to go with common sets. Black on White, White on black, Red alert, CCnG etc

[baldgye]

I'd love some of those new textured WASD keycaps with some side printing... would also love keycaps with side printing that wrapped around the sides of the cap too