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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: Warduke on Fri, 20 January 2012, 22:49:29

Title: Arrow keys off-center
Post by: Warduke on Fri, 20 January 2012, 22:49:29

I noticed a while back that on most keyboards, including my Unicomp and Roswill, the legends on the up and down arrow keys are off-center (to the left) like this:

(http://i.imgur.com/ypKtv.jpg)

But on my CM Storm QuickFire Rapid and others like Das and WASD Keyboards, they are perfectly centered like this:

(http://i.imgur.com/Ev0iR.jpg)

Why aren't all arrow legends perfectly centered?

Title: Arrow keys off-center
Post by: WhiteFireDragon on Fri, 20 January 2012, 23:48:46

Quote from: Warduke;495305

Why aren't all arrow legends perfectly centered?

Captain obvious here, because they're not the same?

Title: Arrow keys off-center
Post by: Human on Sat, 21 January 2012, 02:56:45

Because Costar made them. Filco Linear R TKL is the last model(TKL) they made free from the offset problem.

Title: Arrow keys off-center
Post by: kps on Sat, 21 January 2012, 09:30:24

Because ISO 9995 (the second-worst thing to happen to computer keyboards) mandates it.