Why am I a ****? I am trying to do something nice... were you planning on doing a set too?
Why am I a ****? I am trying to do something nice... were you planning on doing a set too?
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY NOWlol my first thought was "finally, something i don't want"
Pretty sweet... but I only intended for the alternates to be swapped for the non alphas, otherwise all the same colorway, not like oldschool. if you have the time can you do a second rendition with the proposed alternates? I was thinking to do the 'geek hack' and 'Miami' keys legends at a 45° for something a little different. Also it popped into my head to maybe do a flamingo for the other win key...
something like this
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reaper, if you have some alternate ideas feel free to share, this is still in the planning stages.
^ If it looks like that then I'll pass. Good luck with the group buy though. =)
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So pretty, my mommy would be proud.
Reaper's just being coy. Who's he kidding, he's never passed on a GB.
:lie:
Reaper's just being coy. Who's he kidding, he's never passed on a GB.
:lie:
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So pretty, my mommy would be proud.
I don't know... it's just too much pink for my taste. lol But of course, that's just me. A lot of folks probably like this color scheme (tsangan, demik, etc). =D
Plus the fact that I don't have a pink CC to go with it. =(
Well it is too much pink for my taste too... LOL. I had no intention of making anything but the legends in pink, except on the alternates. I was wanting to go for ALL teal keys with pink legends only on the base set. That is hazeluff's interpretation, not necessarily mine.
I was wanting to go for ALL teal keys with pink legends only on the base set.
VBV would look better then VCO
VCO is too green
RCU is red ._.
Well my monitor is not the best... but if i hold up the 'man' key I got from a crapbag trade it is a match for RCU, and it looks flamingo pink to me in real life. I think that is closer to ideal than RCS, otherwise we are talking custom color and big bucks.
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F**K yeah count me in! Although I agree with lysol only the legends should be pink I don't wanna look like a 12yr old girl from the valley
LOL... valley grrrrls biatches.... I am trying my best to make this viable, and recognize this is extremely niche. At the same time, I really want to pull this off as so many keycap sets are pretty conservative, and I think it's time to shake things up a bit. I am so tired of black and white and grey. Best wishes to the Cream Cheese as well... I hope that is also successful.Add some colour to your life!
Yes, we NEED color in our lives, to get away from all the black and beige. Good effort whiskers, but still way off from what I propsed. I know this is not all about me, but the alternate caps could be color on WHITE to really make them POP POP POP.
Yes, we NEED color in our lives, to get away from all the black and beige. Good effort whiskers, but still way off from what I propsed. I know this is not all about me, but the alternate caps could be color on WHITE to really make them POP POP POP.
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Well... there is not going to be such a thing probably if I have my way. The 'gamer set' I propose is going to be pink or teal on white for different keys... to be a contrast to the base set, white keys being much more visible in comparison to the surrounding keys.
I am open to some suggestion, but I am not looking to have 1000000 options and a huge clusterf*ck.
Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=41237&d=1329797853)
So pretty, my mommy would be proud.
This is the end of ROUND4/RETRO style!
colors: RCS and VBV?
NOOOO!!! I wanted R4/RETRO >.>
Then stop supporting other group buys!!!
:-)
I just think about folks who want lightblueish key caps and probably jmp off from my group buy ....
ps: Before I kill RETRO I'd kill NOIR and then ROUND3 ...
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So pretty, my mommy would be proud.
a retro set GB will kill R4/RETRO :P
It's not set in stone, but I think it will more visually interesting to have 'gamer' as 2 color. WASD is more 'important' than the other keys. If you have the time, maybe you can do it my way, and your way and it can be voted on.
Thanks for all the mock ups.
I think OP just want the ESC, Ctrls, Alts and Shifts, 1.25x "Miami" & the 1.25x flamingo in Teal on Pink.
1 question: may I order the gamer kit only?
1 more question: can the flamingo be in Pink on White or White on Pink for ESC?
These mockup isnt teal!!!!!
This is teal!!!!!
These mockup isnt teal!!!!!
This is teal!!!!!Show Image(http://kbdholic.net/img/2011/wasd/wasd2.jpg)Show Image(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2104/1507431579_3b575d19ca.jpg)Show Image(http://6.kicksonfire.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/nike-dunk-sb-low-pro-sb-tiffany.jpg)
Oh, it won't be in Arial, I just threw it on there for now, illustrative purpose... I have a font in mind, I just need to find it. I know what it looks like, but not it's name it might be a bit. I'll probably do the GH key in the same font too, since having an angle is a vector deal, custom art anyway might as well make it more interesting.
You might be right about the gamer... it might be a little too busy. This is still in the planning so nothing is absolute, and of course mob rules as usual.
I like the diagonal GH keys! Ok so lets do this take my money! Damn now I wish I wouldn't have traded my pink CC to mmmty :(
You did WHAT?!
You did WHAT?!
Not like you don't have that one lol
It's the overall sacrilegiousness of the transaction that offends me.
It's not like a sold one I just traded colors lol. Never thought I would have the use for a pink one.
You're crazy, never use the pink one?!?!?!?! It's only the best one
Gold > teal > pink.
I think that this addon
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+ 4 more keycaps ( the f5 to f8 teal on pink ) would be a good compromise.
Also, do we know the cost that SP would charge to create a custom pink ?
Is it as bad as making a custom pbt spacebar or ?
If it comes with the Miami key, I'm in.
I live in Miami and this will be my fav set of all time.
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I'm not sure about the diagonal GeekHack key. You'd have to reduce the size of the font quite a bit to fit it on the workable area. Also I personally don't think it looks so good...
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Reaper's just being coy. Who's he kidding, he's never passed on a GB.
:lie:
someone is a group buy **** lol
A custom plastic color would be $500, I think it is safe to say that this is not an option as it will drive the prices too high.
The set will definitely come with a special Miami and flamino key no matter what else gets changed.
Love it. Gimme now.
I'll take a pink on white WASD cluster, alt/win/crtl/menu keys. Then teal on pink ESC, F5-8 and arrow keys.
I know this is not meant to be complicated, but for those of us that don't want all pink or white modifiers, we should have the option to mix them with white and pink caps.
But I guess keeping it simple would be buying the white and pink add ons separately and mixing them ourselves.
A custom plastic color would be $500, I think it is safe to say that this is not an option as it will drive the prices too high.
The set will definitely come with a special Miami and flamingo key no matter what else gets changed.
Gold > teal > pink.
Addon:
Pink on White WASD
Teal on White 12345qerfgzxc
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Addon
Pink on White Gamer kit
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Finally found that font I was looking for...
i think an original GH style, and one to match the theme of the set is a great idea.
Yes, the white keys/ legends will be WA, pure as the driven snow, never fear.
I thought about doing some special 'weapons' legends for the numbers keys on the gamer set, ala the counterstrike set, with like a straight razor for the knife, uzi, AK, etc... but at $35 a pop, it adds up.
I can live with 2 GH keys, the chic and the square. No way am I giving up the flamingo!
The traditional geek hack like monthly ones is so trivial to add, there is really no point not to if everyone wants it. We could even just do a direct esc replacement, and not even have to add an extra key, is that good?
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No, it really doesn't belong in this set. I might do a graffiti dyesubs mini buy some other time. I only posted it since you mentioned rats...
Brilliant. We need a Banksy 87 set.
I wonder what this set would look like on a filco camo.
Scarface Key?Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/RvgNZ.jpg)
I'm sure this would make a few people face melt. :tongue:
Scarface Key?
Too much color. Unless its teal and pink camo!
I thought about that font, and I do have it, called Broadway, but I thought it was maybe a little too cliche.
Can there just be 50 key add on for this buy which is just a box of modifiers that would go well with these colors?
No... this will not become GB R5!
I agree that the Scarface movie thing would no work on a doubleshot, and am not going to be mixing in random dyesubs, plus there may be copyright issues as well...
Not a terrible idea, but I don't really want to add any specific movie, game or what have you novelty keys to this. Any ideas for general Miami related things may be considered though.
I don't know... I played with it for a bit, not sure how wild I am about it.
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I don't know... I played with it for a bit, not sure how wild I am about it.
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I don't know... I played with it for a bit, not sure how wild I am about it.
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Not wild for it.
Me neither, I'm really thinking about making a small gb just with hazel's set. Base set looks more like tron than Miami imo.
Me neither, I'm really thinking about making a small gb just with hazel's set. Base set looks more like tron than Miami imo.
I agree this is getting crazy so I am gonna do my own group buy for a Miami Dolphins set cause thats the answer!
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I do not understand the 'Tron'? There is no pink in Tron... and set is not going to be in sci fi font...
Hey whatever... I was just trying to keep the price low by not having a whole ton of extra keys. Maybe we can do that instead of all the additional gamer, and just reduce that to an extra wasd? If you all want to add the extra pink keys for the oldschool thing as alternates, fine.
Probably should not do any other extra special keys either. Miami and flamingo key to represent the set is probably good. I really would like to try HARD to keep this at $65ish per set or less.
To clarify, I think the base should stay all pink on teal, uniform. Since there is a lot more disagreement about the gamer kit than not, I was proposing to REPLACE gamer with 'oldshool' alternates as in your original mock up. Just a suggestion to try to keep from adding more keys, and keep the price same.
I was just joking about the dolphins in case you guys didn't catch that
Yes I see what you're saying... I guess I should explain why I don't like it personally. I think the oldschool looks great on the 61 key main block, alternating f keys are fine... I do NOT like the solid mass of pink on the right. I know a few others also said so much pink felt overwhelming. This is why I like to keep the option.
I was just joking about the dolphins in case you guys didn't catch that
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This I could live with for BASE. Feels a little more balanced to me.
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This I could live with for BASE. Feels a little more balanced to me. OOps, didn't mean to chop the arrows... those should have stayed pink.
Just for completeness sake... this>
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<3. Can I pay you in sexual favours?
ASL, Pics?
lets add more colours and call it saved by the bell!
honestly?
if the pink was like that, that'd be perfect.
but SP's pink is not that bright. so that's too much dull pink.
Yes, SP RCJ, and that is probably what we are going to need to deal with, is not quite that bright, but I don't think it is that bad. It's either that or RCU, which is more of a salmon pink with an orangish hint... or a +$500 for a custom color.
It is a tough call for me. If we can reach 50 sets, a custom color might not be so much of a dent on the bank accounts... raising the per set price to around $75. It could be worth the extra $10 per set to not have such a sucky pink.
I am trying to keep the price as low as possible, while still giving a decent set of options. The way SP works is sort of counter intuitive as more keys do have a possibility of lowing the price, depending.
What say you, community?
I like the idea of salmon pink but thats just me
I just took a rough count, based on positive reactions from each unique member that has posted in this thread and arrived at 17... based on the assumption of 1 set per person. We currently do not even have enough to make this remotely viable at base rates with no custom stuff.Well it's only been three days. If you can give it until mid March, maybe we can get it done.
Just for completeness sake... this>
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More pink ftw! I like the current setup.
If we're going for this, could you update the OP so that the newer people who haven't been following the thread will know what's going on?
Edit: opps, it's already been edited :P
I just took a rough count, based on positive reactions from each unique member that has posted in this thread and arrived at 17... based on the assumption of 1 set per person. We currently do not even have enough to make this remotely viable at base rates with no custom stuff.
Yup, I may just need this for my phantom. Count me in. I fully support anything cool for the Windows keys. The flammingo is cool. What about a hand gun, or just 'vice' in that awesome diagonal font of yours.
Yes, if some European member want to post on Deskthority, please do so. Likewise if anyone is on OTD, KBDmania... I would like to have a cross community buy with one person to co-ordinate for their region. Preferably someone who would be willing to accept that regions entire order, and re-mail it.
Rough count I believe is around 20 now. I think I will let it run until mid-April before start taking orders.
It's been what 2-3 days ? Just give it some time and we'll most definitively reach the 30 mark.He needs to give it some more time and I dont see problem reaching over 75 orders
^ First post just for this set? =P Welcome to Geekhack! We also have a forwarding service here (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?27305-(Free)-US-shipping-forwarding-service). What more can you ask for in a forum full of keyboard enthusiasts.
I wish I knew korean. Frequent collaboration with OTD would be nice.
well according to your avy.. you have a filco so you do have a keyboard for this.
you just need to get yourself a blank/engraved tenkey!
enough interest [...] ISO
Great idea of color combination! I encourage that!
I wish I wasn't so cheapskate to never buy key caps.
*Edit:
Actually, wait a bit, how many sets have been ordered yet? I might be interested in the cheapest ones at 56.11 (75 sets) or maybe at 50 sets too.
Who makes those weird key caps?
I believe we have around 25 people interested ( as of now ).
I like this simple font, is it the Filco one?
I suggest not changing it.
Will we get two Miami win key replacement? My keyboard as two winkeys.
Also the extra and larger keys are white, or white/grey, is that desired? Or they will end up being teal on pink just like the others?
Additonal keys will be on white, Miami win keys x2, flamingo menu, WASD, possible some others... Well that is the current plan anyway. Font will be SP 'gorton' as anything else is quite a lot more expensive.
Not at all like 'Futura' which is the font used by Filco.
Good question. Between Jerome Kern and Kern County California it's not easy to Google:
I just added this to the Mechanical Keyboard Guide Glossary:
I'm sure Melissa knows this. She doesn't want to hassle with it.
Now Steve Jobs really got into proportional fonts. The only thing he learned from Reed College.
monospace is not cool.
This I like. In a gay kind of way.Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=41442&d=1329878394)
However I am 78% confident Signature Plastics will screw it up. Probably will come out "GeekSmack".
Oblig: GLWIC (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?24707-Why-Is-The-Ripster-So-Darn-Pissed-At-Signature-Plastic-Key-Group-Buys&p=465725&viewfull=1#post465725).
It's happening, just trying to space it so it's not the same time as creamcheese.Nice to hear that Lysol, give it some time to run specially since Ragnarocks GB went so well and most likely will also the Cream cheese. I have no doubt this one will do well too even though has the pink color, the colors look rich and the combo of both is really nice, who cares if its pink when it looks good.
Nothing but standard 87 ANSI kit is currently planned. If there is enough demand for other keys (ISO enter, 1.5 modifiers, numpad, etc), I will see about adding it.would be nice to have gamer kit included or as option.
I would be very much interested in the ISO version :)
Also, I was bored:
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Yeah 3D board is really cool = D. Now I really need a white keyboard...damnit...
I imagine my set on a metallic pink Filco.
So RAD~
Rad? You think?
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I would be very much interested in the ISO version :)
Also, I was bored:
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Rad? You think?Love the white one. Now that I'm done with the Red/Black GB, this is my next purchase.
Also, with legends, not the same as in the layout, but gives you an idea.
Sorry guys/gals, I will not be joining this GB. I think the best combination of colours ever is orange and cyan/aqua, roughly ON and BBJ according to SP's colours. Unfortunately, I think this GB has ruined forever my chances of getting this combination since your pink and teal is just so close to my ideal and if anyone has gone for this I doubt anyone would go for my proposition.
Sorry guys/gals, I will not be joining this GB. I think the best combination of colours ever is orange and cyan/aqua, roughly ON and BBJ according to SP's colours. Unfortunately, I think this GB has ruined forever my chances of getting this combination since your pink and teal is just so close to my ideal and if anyone has gone for this I doubt anyone would go for my proposition.
Sorry guys/gals, I will not be joining this GB. I think the best combination of colours ever is orange and cyan/aqua, roughly ON and BBJ according to SP's colours. Unfortunately, I think this GB has ruined forever my chances of getting this combination since your pink and teal is just so close to my ideal and if anyone has gone for this I doubt anyone would go for my proposition.
Sorry guys/gals, I will not be joining this GB. I think the best combination of colours ever is orange and cyan/aqua, roughly ON and BBJ according to SP's colours. Unfortunately, I think this GB has ruined forever my chances of getting this combination since your pink and teal is just so close to my ideal and if anyone has gone for this I doubt anyone would go for my proposition.
Sorry guys/gals, I will not be joining this GB. I think the best combination of colours ever is orange and cyan/aqua, roughly ON and BBJ according to SP's colours. Unfortunately, I think this GB has ruined forever my chances of getting this combination since your pink and teal is just so close to my ideal and if anyone has gone for this I doubt anyone would go for my proposition.
So RAAAAAAAD~
Well the Filco pink is a little more metallic and lighter.
But yeah, I guess that will do.
Ponycorns! (http://ponycorns.com/)
I really hope this goes through, this has to be the best looking keyset I've seen posted... I just wish that you where also doing the numb-pad keys too... or doing another set blank so i could just order a set with and without legends :3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_0dDjoW_o
Yes it certainly is the best looking keyset that I've seen here as well.
Edit : In the OP it shows candy green, I think we need a cyan like maybe vco
Do you people not see my example photo of teal and cyan? I'll try to give the exact SP chips later.
Hey Lysol, is that keycap very green or is it just me?
Im interested in
1x Miami 87
1x Numpad
1x ISO-set
1x Any modifier set you throw at me
Rendered the keycaps according to the pic in the original post, tad bit different, but not too bad
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/574006/CGI/kbs/filco_09.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/574006/CGI/kbs/filco_10.jpg
I saw it, I like the color of the circles. That's the teal I'm looking for.
That quote is Fabius. JUST Fabius.
example of keycaps in the actual colors:
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example of keycaps in the actual colors:
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However, that is NOT TEAL!
"We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us." -Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-100)
Let's call a spade a spade. We are talking about spending $100 each on a bunch of plastic, after all, and color is one of it's only meaningful characteristics. The vibrant, light, electric blue-green that everyone seems to prefer is much closer to CYAN, or maybe really closest to TURQUOISE, and is most closely approximated by SP: VBV. TEAL is a darker, much more muted blue-green, and most closely approximated by SP: VAF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_%28color%29
One color choice we have ignored is AQUAMARINE, closely approximated by SP: VCO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquamarine_%28color%29
I think that the best color choices, if we are going to call this "Miami" because of the Art Deco influence there and as seen on Miami Vice, would be RCR and VAF. Those are the colors of Art Deco in the 1980s. But, if we want the most electric combo: RCS and either VBV or VCO would make a very bright, pastel, Ice Cream Parlour feel to the thing.
Anyway, here are the SigPlast color chips lying upon the inside cover of Miami Vice DVD box set, so we can all see actual, real, colors. Let's either call them by their SP chip names, or use the most appropriate color names, as wikipedia can help us use. ;-)
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Oh, and just for fun: http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/77257/Miami_Vice
and here is Shocking Pink and Ultra Pink, which, alas, we can't really do in SP ABS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pink#Bright_pink
IMHO, and from living with one of the leading Art Deco designers in the world in the 1980s, Shocking Pink on Teal would be the most authentic. :-)
However, that is NOT TEAL!
Quote Originally Posted by captain:
Do you people not see my example photo of teal and cyan? I'll try to give the exact SP chips later.
I saw it, I like the color of the circles. That's the teal I'm looking for.
If you can get chips for teal and cyan, that would be great.
I keep forgetting that I need to try and match a random UK enter key too with this set lol... why is the uk layout so diffrent to the us one :/
English people don't make sense. Why is " on the 2. and the @ on the '? Why is the left shift so small that its not even ergonomical to hit it?
I like the slightly bluer VBV. But yeah, colors off a monitor is terrible.
It's the other way round: ANSI shift is too big! Place your fingers on f and j and look at the distance to both shifts.
No, everything shown / listed in the OP is included in the tentative pricing. ANSI 87+ Miami, flamingo, WASD, geekhack keys all in same price, not extra. This is one set right now so you get everything shown / listed with it. No options.great, consider me as interested in buying the set, give it some time to run, we should have more numbers in after the cream cheese and green set pass, I might pass on that set since the cream cheese dont look proper to me.
If there is enough interest to even offer numpad, ISO keys, and so on then those would be extra cost only as optional add-ons.
tbh having known no diffrent it would be like asking how can americans be used to hitting 2 for the @ symbol
thegunner100, I am sorry for this irrelevant post, but I was just sitting here thinking about what to write to bump this thread. Just saying we are probably soul mates or something... *stalks you*
Since payment for Tsangan's green and cream cheese GB is starting soon, I'm bumping this thread so that we can get more interest and get this GB started!
We are close to 50 I think. Should be good to go when tsangan's buy wraps up.
I was wondering why the insert, delete, home cluster is teal instead of pink. Most keycap sets I have seen here that do a two tone set up use the opposite color on that section.
Pretty much because there would be TOO much pink if those were pink as well. I think that section looks better as teal than pink though.
This is the most disgusting set I've ever seen, good luck, I think?
This is the most disgusting set I've ever seen, good luck, I think?
I hope the OP considers custom colors for this set. At 50 sets, it would be only an extra $10 per person. The current colors doesn't match the mockup.
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Order thread should be up this week :D
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tkl set with 2 geekhack keys which is a total of 89 keys. And the option to buy additional spacebars(6.25)
tkl set with 2 geekhack keys which is a total of 89 keys. And the option to buy additional spacebars(6.25)Quote from: baldgye;579981So no ISO extra's?
This, and no numpad either? (Might have to order ANSI tkl for this..)
Curious... did they say why exactly they aren't useable? There didn't seem to be a problem having the angled text weeks ago when I checked with them since it is a single width font.
Right... but did they specify what their issue was that they won't do them? I can't fix something if I don't know what the problem is.
Ok... I guess some letters is now even too hard / too much effort for SP. WTF? They really do **** on their customer base. They have gotten too complacent with their near monopoly and just don't give a f*ck. China, please save us!!!
What really irritates me the most is how much I busted my balls finding a cool font that had single line width. That isn't easy. I even vetted that font and the angled orientation, so I really don't know where the problem is all the sudden.
I don't know, I am pretty sure I followed their guidelines. Maybe you can try and rework them?
Looks like the new svgs haze created will work, but Melissa needs to confirm this with the Cnc guy who will be in later today.
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