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Title: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: aggiejy on Wed, 12 December 2012, 13:34:10
Yesterday Vortex posted these, labeled as doubleshot PBT keys:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.438608786206837.93809.241720585895659&type=1

The pictures aren't great, but at a glance I would have assumed they were lasered like on a backlit keyboard.  (Race, etc)

Just a language issue?
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: alaricljs on Wed, 12 December 2012, 13:49:01
Vortex deals with KBC, right?

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=32567.0
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: Hyde on Wed, 12 December 2012, 14:00:35
Mmmmmmmm 2013 will be a fun year for keyboards  :P
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: Vintage on Wed, 12 December 2012, 15:28:40
Why must the font be soooo ugly.....

Holding out for SP doubleshot PBT =)
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: aggiejy on Wed, 12 December 2012, 16:36:22
I don't know, I still doubt these are doubleshots at all... they don't look like it from the crappy pictures.  I'll need a reverse shot as proof. :)
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: Rumudiez on Wed, 12 December 2012, 18:18:06
What doesn't look like double shot process about them to you? They look high contrast despite relatively poor lighting and you can tell the "A" in "ALT" and "R" in "CTRL" are a little off as results of improper (think too high for both) pressure during the second shot.

I believe Vortex, I just don't believe they'll be for sale any time close :P
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: MMB on Wed, 12 December 2012, 20:24:39
If they even manage to actually get product to market, those legends are an atrocity....
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Wed, 12 December 2012, 20:47:25
Looks awful. I don't care what they are made of, I wouldn't take them for free. Vortex I have 3 word for you. Fire the designer.
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: 1391401 on Wed, 12 December 2012, 21:14:57
"Let's do something that not many people have and offer it for sale"
"Ok but we have to choose the ugliest font ever, we can't make something people actually want"
"Good idea!"
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: Rumudiez on Wed, 12 December 2012, 21:18:11
Looks awful. I don't care what they are made of, I wouldn't take them for free. Vortex I have 3 word for you. Fire the designer.

What designer? These are almost certainly just the machinists fancying themselves with some typographical exercises.
Title: Re: Vortex Doubleshot PBT?
Post by: laffindude on Thu, 13 December 2012, 22:21:13
Ya. I heard about these not too long ago.
Pix just shows what I expected: ugly font and warped legends. Thickness of the legend looks pretty uneven. At least they'll do dyesubs, which should be "coming soon" as well.