[IC] GMK SERIKA

[dr-slump]

GMK : check
Beige: check
Accents: check
Norde: CHECK

I'M definitely in !

[elfick]

Since it isn't part of the MD vote I'd like to voice my support for a blocknet/micon kit for this set. 

[airyloft]

Why use Massdrop? NOT a fan.

[xondat]

Why use Massdrop? NOT a fan.

Biggest reach unfortunately.

[noSatellite]

Why use Massdrop? NOT a fan.

Biggest reach unfortunately.

Honest question, and genuinely curious as I don't know the history here - why is Massdrop held is low regard in this community?

[Zambumon]

Since it isn't part of the MD vote I'd like to voice my support for a blocknet/micon kit for this set. 

Please, don't add it as an option to the poll for now, I'll add it myself once I get permission and renders done.

Why use Massdrop? NOT a fan.

That has been already answered in the FAQ.

[Kerasan]

This project is very interesting

congratulations, i hope it is a success

KMK labs

[Zambumon]

Quick update: MiTo has given me permission to test how Micons would look like in Serika. Once I receive the files, I'll do some tests and post them on this thread!

[Allo]

Why use Massdrop? NOT a fan.

Biggest reach unfortunately.

Honest question, and genuinely curious as I don't know the history here - why is Massdrop held is low regard in this community?

They had some issues with past keyset drops. Delays and sometimes people not getting what they ordered. They have been pretty good with the last few sets, e.g. GMK Yuri, GMK Nautilus, XDA Godspeed.

[foxlive]

Nice looking keyset. But.. I would say I was really hyped by your banner, logo and all the graphical around this SERIKA (the box is amazing) but I think the keyset is very "classical", just a color scheme, few novelties, and the classical gmk look (that I personnaly don't really like xD!). I want to see what the mito icons can look like on it !

Edit: I don't know if it is possible, but since the theme is "geometric", could it be possible to change the font used , to maybe something more modern and symetrical, with centered character?

[ppp]

Nice looking keyset. But.. I would say I was really hyped by your banner, logo and all the graphical around this SERIKA (the box is amazing) but I think the keyset is very "classical", just a color scheme, few novelties, and the classical gmk look (that I personnaly don't really like xD!). I want to see what the mito icons can look like on it !

Edit: I don't know if it is possible, but since the theme is "geometric", could it be possible to change the font used , to maybe something more modern and symetrical, with centered character?

I think Zambumon likes keeping costs low and these suggestions sound pretty expensive..

[Zambumon]

The keyset has a colorway that tries to balance modern and more classic design, so for some people this would fall under the "boring" category. I've received the approval from MiTo to test some of his Micons on this set. Both Hiragana and Micons kits will be posted at the same time, so please be a little bit patient about this update as I have to tweak some details before posting anything.

Regarding the novelties, the more novelties we add, the more the kit costs. There's a decent amount of novelties on this set, so you can expect from me to do some minor tweaks but I don't want to end up with a $50 Novelty kit.

As for the font changes there are and won't be any plans to make a new font for this set. It would make the set quite expensive and lots of new molds would need to be done and tested.

[manzel]

I like it. For the novelties set, however, I think it would be nice to also have the circle and square thing in R4. This way, you could display more different logos an the board. I see why you did it the way it is now - to keep the kit small and have the signature Serika 'A' twice for every different size for that symmetrical look - but I would love to have a little variation.

[foxlive]

The keyset has a colorway that tries to balance modern and more classic design, so for some people this would fall under the "boring" category. I've received the approval from MiTo to test some of his Micons on this set. Both Hiragana and Micons kits will be posted at the same time, so please be a little bit patient about this update as I have to tweak some details before posting anything.

Regarding the novelties, the more novelties we add, the more the kit costs. There's a decent amount of novelties on this set, so you can expect from me to do some minor tweaks but I don't want to end up with a $50 Novelty kit.

As for the font changes there are and won't be any plans to make a new font for this set. It would make the set quite expensive and lots of new molds would need to be done and tested.

I understand your point of view. I want to see what it will give with Hiragana and Micons !

[Zambumon]

Serika color samples have arrived.I've published on my blog a post about them.

TL;DR: they are close but not a perfect match with the reference color, but I'm very confident that with a second round of samples we'll get a perfect match.

Locking the thread for now, will unlocked it for kit updates.

[Zambumon]

Update #2 is coming soon, based on feedback from the community, I'm performing some changes on some of the kits and adding two new kits to the set!

Here is a sneak peak of Serika with Hiragana on a Tokyo60

[Zambumon]

Pending approval for the new legends, here are the new two kits for Serika:

Hiragana

I've marked in red some of the new additions to the Hiragana kit. Now, it includes all the secondary legends that were missing previously, punctuation signs and japanese quotation marks. Although I'm not going for a complete JIS coverage (given that it we'd need a completely different custom row and more keys), to me it felt wrong that some of the hiragana legends were missing so I decided to fix those.

Micons

Micons offer a solution to the icon problem, and they fit like a charm with Serika. I've done some small fixes and added 65% layout coverage to this kit, which is pending Mito's approval otherwise, the set should be fairly similar to Laser's Blocknet.

[Kerasan]

now it cant be said to be a boring keyset

Good Work,

Kerasan KM Labs

[Vigrith]

The 2 new kits assure that I will be purchasing a set. Great work!

[finalarcadia]

Oh man now I must buy the set. Hiragana/micons/novelties just like laser. 65% support is all I need.

[Zambumon]

Just before somebody asks this: I don't plan to expand the coverage of the Micons kit. The goal adding these four keys is to continue to ease the path for a full Micon base kit.

[Kerasan]

Just before somebody asks this: I don't plan to expand the coverage of the Micons kit. The goal adding these four keys is to continue to ease the path for a full Micon base kit.

it would be great, I approve

Kerasan KMK Labs.

[Solotov]

Would love to join if there is "Pure Hiragana" set. Will you provide that as an option as well?

[Max_P0]

Will this be going up on MassDrop ?

[packman86]

This is looking really nice! I am interested for sure!

[xondat]

Serika color samples have arrived.I've published on my blog a post about them.

TL;DR: they are close but not a perfect match with the reference color, but I'm very confident that with a second round of samples we'll get a perfect match.

Locking the thread for now, will unlocked it for kit updates.

That color turned out really good. Hopefully the GB doesn't get scuffed like other custom color buys.

[Zambumon]

Would love to join if there is "Pure Hiragana" set. Will you provide that as an option as well?

No, I'm not considering doing a pure hiragana., it would split the sales and make things more costly, which is what happened with Red Samurai.

Serika color samples have arrived.I've published on my blog a post about them.

TL;DR: they are close but not a perfect match with the reference color, but I'm very confident that with a second round of samples we'll get a perfect match.

Locking the thread for now, will unlocked it for kit updates.

That color turned out really good. Hopefully the GB doesn't get scuffed like other custom color buys.

I requested new samples for that yellow, tho and provided my own plastic chips. The yellow is very close to be a perfect match.

Will this be going up on MassDrop ?

Yes, that has been already answered on the FAQ of the OP.

[foxlive]

now it cant be said to be a boring keyset

Good Work,

Kerasan KM Labs

Agreed! It look very nice now

[amnesia0287]

Pending approval for the new legends, here are the new two kits for Serika:

Hiragana

Show Image

I've marked in red some of the new additions to the Hiragana kit. Now, it includes all the secondary legends that were missing previously, punctuation signs and japanese quotation marks. Although I'm not going for a complete JIS coverage (given that it we'd need a completely different custom row and more keys), to me it felt wrong that some of the hiragana legends were missing so I decided to fix those.

Micons

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Micons offer a solution to the icon problem, and they fit like a charm with Serika. I've done some small fixes and added 65% layout coverage to this kit, which is pending Mito's approval otherwise, the set should be fairly similar to Laser's Blocknet.

I don't quite get the keys with 2 of the same legend, seems odd to me, but the extension of micons is great. the lack of 65% never made any sense to me.

[Zambumon]

Pending approval for the new legends, here are the new two kits for Serika:

Hiragana

Show Image

I've marked in red some of the new additions to the Hiragana kit. Now, it includes all the secondary legends that were missing previously, punctuation signs and japanese quotation marks. Although I'm not going for a complete JIS coverage (given that it we'd need a completely different custom row and more keys), to me it felt wrong that some of the hiragana legends were missing so I decided to fix those.

Micons

Show Image

Micons offer a solution to the icon problem, and they fit like a charm with Serika. I've done some small fixes and added 65% layout coverage to this kit, which is pending Mito's approval otherwise, the set should be fairly similar to Laser's Blocknet.

I don't quite get the keys with 2 of the same legend, seems odd to me, but the extension of micons is great. the lack of 65% never made any sense to me.

Those are used to create the small sounds. A small "tsu" つ is used for to create a like a mini stop when pronouncing a word.

Some short post about it.

I'll add this question to the FAQ on my next update.

[pomk]

Would it be possible to add the missing three keys to the norde kit, so that it would cover the SWE/FI layout? (§½, 2" and 4¤)

Why is there a #~ key in the Hiragana kit? the windows layout that all of the other keys match produces the characters \| when pressed. Does windows have some other Japanese layout that would generate the characters #~ as present on the key? As far as I understand # is already on top of 3 and ~ on the left of 1. I would much appreciate it if the set would be accurate to the windows layout that it otherwise does a good job representing. 

The additional keys to the micons kit is much appreciated and I hope that Mito will approve of them. One could add an ISO enter there though, it seems like a weird thing to omit considering that it is as popular as 1.5U bottom row mods. 

[Zambumon]

Would it be possible to add the missing three keys to the norde kit, so that it would cover the SWE/FI layout? (§½, 2" and 4¤)

Why is there a #~ key in the Hiragana kit? the windows layout that all of the other keys match produces the characters \| when pressed. Does windows have some other Japanese layout that would generate the characters #~ as present on the key? As far as I understand # is already on top of 3 and ~ on the left of 1. I would much appreciate it if the set would be accurate to the windows layout that it otherwise does a good job representing. 

The additional keys to the micons kit is much appreciated and I hope that Mito will approve of them. One could add an ISO enter there though, it seems like a weird thing to omit considering that it is as popular as 1.5U bottom row mods. 

• Nordic keys will be reviewed after I receive some very specific numbers from Nautilus. Once I get those numbers, I'll decide what to do with the kit.
• Please, note that both that I just posted the Hiragana and Micons kit so you could get a sneak peak of what's coming up, I was already aware of the two issues you have mentioned and the upcoming update fixes them both (so yes, ISO Micon is the last piece of that kit)

Micons usage has been approved by MiTo. This will be the second time these icons are used on a GMK. I'd like to thank MiTo for letting me not only to use them on Serika, but to add new icons to the GMK collection. This will be the first time these icons aren't used on a MiTo set. 

[pomk]

+ISO

I sense a shopping frenzy in the horizon 

[Snappo]

I think the contrast of the set would be better with black/grey arrow keys. nice work otherwise, simple yet I like it.

[finalarcadia]

any reason why r3 control is centered (micons)?

[Fooblitzky]

I'm sorry, but this is all I see when I look at the Micons:



But, I do like them.

I've been waiting for double shot dark text on light Hiragana caps. Those look amazing.

[Zambumon]

I think the contrast of the set would be better with black/grey arrow keys. nice work otherwise, simple yet I like it.

The updated Geometries kit will have some of those.

any reason why r3 control is centered (micons)?

None, that's one of the tweaks I was talking about on my previous post. That kit has also the wrong rows for the keycaps that provide 65% support. Don't worry all of those issues are solved on Update #2.

I'm sorry, but this is all I see when I look at the Micons:

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But, I do like them.

I've been waiting for double shot dark text on light Hiragana caps. Those look amazing.

Serika's yellow is, to my surprise, the same yellow used on many Lego. I've been tweaking the renders to reflect this and have something closer to the samples I expect to receive and the final result.

[anorak]

This needs a yellow spacebar.
And tertier level legends for the NORDE kit.

Well, I'll definitely buy it. Need something as a contrast to my GMK Dolch set.

[Snappo]

I think the contrast of the set would be better with black/grey arrow keys. nice work otherwise, simple yet I like it.

The updated Geometries kit will have some of those.

any reason why r3 control is centered (micons)?

None, that's one of the tweaks I was talking about on my previous post. That kit has also the wrong rows for the keycaps that provide 65% support. Don't worry all of those issues are solved on Update #2.

I'm sorry, but this is all I see when I look at the Micons:

Show Image

But, I do like them.

I've been waiting for double shot dark text on light Hiragana caps. Those look amazing.

Serika's yellow is, to my surprise, the same yellow used on many Lego. I've been tweaking the renders to reflect this and have something closer to the samples I expect to receive and the final result.

Nice, I'm in for sure then. Good luck.

[TheMissingPiece]

I'm sorry, but this is all I see when I look at the Micons:

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LEGO-inspired novelties would make this an insta-buy for me.

edit: eyes might need to be spaced closer together to match the minifig.

[ojrask]

I'm sorry, but this is all I see when I look at the Micons:

Show Image

But, I do like them.

I've been waiting for double shot dark text on light Hiragana caps. Those look amazing.

Serika's yellow is, to my surprise, the same yellow used on many Lego. I've been tweaking the renders to reflect this and have something closer to the samples I expect to receive and the final result.

Hah, this made me realize that Serika will probably go well with my Lego Technics Volvo L350F: https://shop.lego.com/en-FI/Remote-Controlled-VOLVO-L350F-Wheel-Loader-42030

[FSund]

With the addition of Hiragana and Micons sets, should perhaps the alphas be separated from the core kit?

[Zambumon]

With the addition of Hiragana and Micons sets, should perhaps the alphas be separated from the core kit?

I don't have plans to do so. The core kit will remain as it is. It provides a good layout coverage and for many it will be the only kit needed. For me, the base kit is the center piece of the set, and it should be an all-in-one affordable kit.

[FSund]

I prefer separate alphas and mods, but I see the arguments for both sides. Having lots of separate kits often lead to higher prices.

Do you know how the Serika/Lego yellow will compare to the yellow in Nautilus (GMK N6?) ? I'm considering getting just the Micons set and mixing with Nautilus keys.

[Zambumon]

I prefer separate alphas and mods, but I see the arguments for both sides. Having lots of separate kits often lead to higher prices.

Do you know how the Serika/Lego yellow will compare to the yellow in Nautilus (GMK N6?) ? I'm considering getting just the Micons set and mixing with Nautilus keys.

Not the same yellow, Nautilus yellow is slightly darker and more orange.

[Zambumon]

Update #2 will be released soon. I'm still currently making some final tweaks and making sure that everything is fine before posting anything, but it should be out this week. This update has taken me longer than what I expected as I've tweaked the colors and added new boards to my gallery. So most of the renders needed to be remade. But anyways, here is the final teaser before the update!

[oh_chesteroni]

Cannot get winky face caps lock out of my head hahaha. Love the mitocons!

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[ojrask]

Cannot get winky face caps lock out of my head hahaha. Love the mitocons!

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Winky face or a person swimming?

[Kerasan]

Update #2 will be released soon. I'm still currently making some final tweaks and making sure that everything is fine before posting anything, but it should be out this week. This update has taken me longer than what I expected as I've tweaked the colors and added new boards to my gallery. So most of the renders needed to be remade. But anyways, here is the final teaser before the update!

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this set earned 1000 points now ... would you recommend this set only on black keyboards or the various grays?

KMK labs

[oh_chesteroni]

Cannot get winky face caps lock out of my head hahaha. Love the mitocons!

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Winky face or a person swimming?

Now I can't stop picturing a guy swimming hah!

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