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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: tipo33 on Wed, 07 March 2012, 16:27:09

Title: RGB modifiers
Post by: tipo33 on Wed, 07 March 2012, 16:27:09

Does anybody know the history behind them?  Why red not purple?  Did some historic keyboard have them?  Thank you in advance.

Title: RGB modifiers
Post by: ReAzem on Wed, 07 March 2012, 16:31:52

I also want to know!

Title: RGB modifiers
Post by: pitashen on Wed, 07 March 2012, 16:35:35

They are mostly used on airport terminal keyboards, nowadays. Maybe there are other industry that make use of them that i don't know of. Anyway, each of them of serves as some sort of Fn key combos that are grouped by the colors. The choice of colors... i can only guess, is probably just coz the fact that they are primary colors... which is quite an intuitive choice if you ask me.

here is a pic i took at the airport
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VsvdRI-qeWo/TxNeHQGvhPI/AAAAAAAAA0g/nMBghcPTLKw/s800/_1000798.JPG)

The doubleshot version is a custom order by some crazy koreans :P
http://keyboardporn.com/keycaps/cherry-rgb-keycaps/

for dyesub version from the airport terminal keyboard
http://keyboardporn.com/keycaps/cherry-rgb-sublimation/

Title: RGB modifiers
Post by: tipo33 on Wed, 07 March 2012, 16:52:30

Quote from: pitashen;538204

They are mostly used on airport terminal keyboards, nowadays. Maybe there are other industry that make use of them that i don't know of. Anyway, each of them of serves as some sort of Fn key combos that are grouped by the colors. The choice of colors... i can only guess, is probably just coz the fact that they are primary colors... which is quite an intuitive choice if you ask me.
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Wow,  that's actually pretty cool.  Thanx.  I'm so colourblind it's occasionally embarrassing. lol

Title: RGB modifiers
Post by: Netdewt on Fri, 09 March 2012, 07:08:48

I don't know the history, but I want them because I use them all the time as a retoucher, and RGB are the primary colors of light (and the mode I work in most often in Photoshop). Camera sensors have twice as many greens as reds and blues, so it works that the large shift key is green as well.

(http://library.creativecow.net/articles/galt_john/John_Galt_2K_4K_Truth_About_Pixels/bayer_pattern_sensor.jpg)