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PBS Crispin

A PBS keycap set inspired by a certain fruit.

(https://i.imgur.com/PdfJRcO.png)

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Story behind the set:
I love the design language behind older Macintosh keyboards, but I found the tactile experience rather underwhelming. I wanted something I could use with other mechanical keyboards, but had a difficult time finding the right profile for the design. Something a bit low, but comfortable and clean-looking. Enter PBS.

What is PBS?

“PBS, short for ‘Penguin Belly Slide’, is a uniform keycap profile–every row has the same height. The profile is designed by Matt3o, and manufactured by Keyreative. PBS uses a combination of a cylindrical front and back with a spherical top scoop. The result is a wide scooped contact area at the top, which enables a comfy and ergonomic typing experience.”

PBS Specs:

• PBT
• 1.5mm thick blanks
• Dyesub and reverse dyesub
• Concave and convex available
• Massive layout support
• Concave max height of 7.43mm
• Convex max height of 7.91mm

Kitting:

There will be 2 base kits offered: a regular base kit and a 40s/ortho base kit.

Regular Base Kit

(https://i.imgur.com/puHG922.jpeg)

40s/Ortho Base Kit

(https://i.imgur.com/Fd4n9wc.jpeg)

Additionally, there are 2 collaboration kits that will be offered: a Minimi40 kit and Altair kit. These will be available as add-ons to their corresponding keyboards.

Minimi40 Kit

(https://i.imgur.com/RxqnBTz.jpeg)

Altair Kit

(https://i.imgur.com/D91YvkM.jpeg)

A Mac mods kit will also be available if there is enough demand. Please let us know if you’d be interested by filling out the IC form!

Mac Mods Kit

(https://i.imgur.com/QltxtPs.png)

Colors:

The keycaps are white with bluish gray legends. The shade of white will be matched with the white Minimi40, which is a bright, neutral white. I’d be interested in offering other color versions of the set in the future, so please let me know if you’d be interested in the IC form.

Other notes:

The base kits were designed to provide a large range of compatibility. The collaboration kits are designed to cover the main layouts of specific keyboards, so the compatibility is more limited. Also, despite preferring bar-homing keycaps myself, they did look a bit odd because of the position of the legends, so I decided on scooped homing keys only.

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Main vendor: Cannonkeys
Other vendors TBA
Pricing TBA
Sales date TBA
Currently waiting for samples!

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Fixed the links ^-^

I love how the hobby is leaning into old apple legends. Good times.

Basic. Simple. Nice.

Samples have been completed :)

Simple and clean! This will surely be a hit. PBS is so comfortable to use, I'm glad to see it getting the love it deserves.

It's great to see Colevrak support included in the 40s/Ortho Base kit.

Please include it in the Regular Base kit as well. For example, like PBS Granite:

(https://i.postimg.cc/jsGJw4NG/PBS-Granite-reg-Base-v-D8j-Mkp.png) (https://i.postimg.cc/38Y90hg3/PBS-Granite-40s-Ortho-Ln-LPb-WE.png)

Actually, all four Base kits should support alternative layouts. Maybe split alt homing keys off into a small kit, just as you've done with Mac Mods.

If a simple stand-alone alt-layout homing kit is too small, you could expand it by including both scooped and barred. And/or add middle-finger homing or eight-finger homing, both of which could include QWERTY and thus appeal to a broader audience.

(https://i.postimg.cc/6Wdkp4GC/Uniform-profile-Homing-kit-250807.png)

I really like this style

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geekhack Marketplace => Interest Checks => Topic started by: keebibi on Fri, 26 September 2025, 01:07:59