I've been looking at everyone's responses and they have been really helpful to me so far. I'll try to respond to all of the common questions right here, so if I missed anything, let me know.
Excited to see this to come back!
The only things I kind wish weren’t dropped from R1 were the F5-8 and Print-Scroll-Pause accents. And speaking of accents, you have an alpha colored escape but no accented one and that feels like a mix up?
I was trying to look for ways to slim the base kit, and those keys were one of the things I chose to cut out.
As for the blue accented Esc that everyone keeps asking about, I just noticed that it's not accented in the render, and I'm not entirely sure why since what I have on my KLE was blue when I pulled it up just now. It definitely will be part of the final kit.any chance to add the alpha colored short bars to the 40s kit?
I don't need literally 8 large spacebars....
A change I'm definitely looking at right now is cutting one of the 2u and 1.75u bars and replacing them with 2.25u and 2.75u bars, both alpha colored.
Any chance to include accent short spacebar in 40% kit?
I really don't want to make any kit larger than they need to be, but it will be considered since I know the accented spacebars are pretty popular with this kit.
Yes. Gimmie.
Also: Please swap the white Esc key for an accent in base.
Please consider: Changing the 1.5 R3 "function" key for an enter Icon for the Minivan. The 1.5 function key is really more for the Pearl Keyboard than anything. In this case I believe the Minivan trumps the Pearl in numbers.
I do want more feedback from 40% users, so it will probably be a considered change, but no guarantees yet.
Glad to see Shoko is coming back 
Have some kit feedback:
Thank you
Base Kit
This kit should cover all of the basic kits in question.
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Please consider adding R3 PgUp and R4 PgDn. With so many keys it would be a shame not to have those two.
You can probably drop the second 1u Ctrl and Alt. Or, you can drop the Ctrl but keep both 1u Alts and add a 1.5u Super to support Mac and HHKB layouts (1u Alt, 1.5u Super, 1.5u Function, 1u Alt).
I'll think about if I can add the R3 PgUp and R4 PgDn, I'll probably drop the 1u Ctrls to help make up for that. I'll add a 1.5u Super.
Hiragana Kit
This is an alphas kit with mono hiragana legends, comes with an extra こ for Alice and an extra 1.75u shift and tab for extra versatility. That extra こ was totally not forgotten and photoshopped in last minute, but it will be in the final kit.
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How about changing the R4 む key to R4 ろ? The latter is completely missing from the kit at the moment, while the former is duplicated. ろ is the extra key that JIS layouts have on R4, so it makes sense to use it as the extra R4 ISO key.
I see it in the JIS layout, so the R4 む key has been replaced with a R4 ろ key. There is a ろ in the kit already, but it was R1.
Spacebar Kit
Just some good ol' extra spacebars for accents or split spacebars. Extra B for Alice Users.
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That's too many 6u spacebars, if you ask me. In fact, I think you'd be fine just offering one (white, centered stem), in fact, or two at most (either one white centered, one white off-centered; or one white centered, one blue centered).
Cutting out the off-centered 6u spacebars is most likely going to be a change I'll make, it really is a lot of spacebars.
Responses are in bold, but I really appreciated the feedback.
guess i'll pick up a hiragana kit to add to my R1 kits. a bit off topic but are you still considering running in a different profile like MG, KAT, or MT3?
I'm not really sure if I'd do MT3 since I wasn't a huge fan with some of the Susuwatari legends and I'm not too confident on them doing reverse dye subs properly, I do enjoy the profile a ton, so it's still a possibility. KAT is a stronger possibility seeing how the KAT Arctic samples have turned out (they look wonderful) and I did enjoy it when I tried it at the LA meetup. MG, Muni seems to want to do their own colorways.
isn't the og icon for capslock a handbag? why no handbag ?
I don't like the handbag honestly, and the icon mod for Caps Lock last run was upside down shift, so it will stay that way.
I am seeing quite a bit of demand for the text+icon mods, so they very well may make a return in a form of an add-on kit much like the icon mods were in the original run if the demand continues. I hope I get more input from 40% users in the following days, since that's the territory I'm definitely most unfamiliar with. Thanks for all of the feedback everyone.
