Guess you can always turn the backlight off and learn to touch type.
Guess you can always turn the backlight off and learn to touch type.
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That's a shame, dude. I saw the purple ones in videos and see what you mean. Is MK willing to do anything for you? Unfortunately, the Blues with MX Blue are currently out of stock.
That picture above looks pretty purple.
That picture above looks pretty purple.
That picture above looks pretty purple.
Its the same color they sold as Pink for the shine 2s. I saw one of those back then that was sold as Pink and these are the same color.
look at the pantone chart, the ducky led color is still considered purple there.
look at the pantone chart, the ducky led color is still considered purple there.
Here is purple that pantone typically calls purple:
https://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=34&pg=20109&
Here is pink that pantone typically calls pink: https://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=34&pg=20104&
There are greens pantone calls blue because they have run out of names.
The biggest issue is that they redefined it after showing off the shine as coming in a dark purple
Anyone looking at this in real life (as the picture really doesn't do it justice would say its a pink keyboard.
look at the pantone chart, the ducky led color is still considered purple there.
Here is purple that pantone typically calls purple:
https://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=34&pg=20109&
Here is pink that pantone typically calls pink: https://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=34&pg=20104&
There are greens pantone calls blue because they have run out of names.
The biggest issue is that they redefined it after showing off the shine as coming in a dark purple
Anyone looking at this in real life (as the picture really doesn't do it justice would say its a pink keyboard.
There's no such thing as typical... it's ALWAYS AS NEEDED
look at the pantone chart, the ducky led color is still considered purple there.
Here is purple that pantone typically calls purple:
https://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=34&pg=20109&
Here is pink that pantone typically calls pink: https://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=34&pg=20104&
There are greens pantone calls blue because they have run out of names.
The biggest issue is that they redefined it after showing off the shine as coming in a dark purple
Anyone looking at this in real life (as the picture really doesn't do it justice would say its a pink keyboard.
There's no such thing as typical... it's ALWAYS AS NEEDED
You've made my point no one (except maybe you and pantone) would say that is purple. I really don't want to argue about color differences with you I'm just trying to state that the keyboard LEDs are the ones Ducky sold as Pink last year and I believe most people would agree they are pink. Someone asked me to make this thread because they thought other people should know and I was trying to be helpful. If you don't like it ok but the argument that the color you have just shown is purple isn't worth arguing about anymore so I'm done. I'm not sure why you care as the ergodox isn't backlit.
This is not news. Shine II "purple" was also really magenta-pink. In fact, many asian vendors have been selling them as "pink". Purple is the word used in the U.S. to avoid intimidating the male population or something...
Pink = Purple = same actual LEDS, just different names. You will see that "pink" labeled as "purple" on mechanicalkeyboards.com. It's not actually a different color. It's in fact the same. Notice that it's the Taiwanese site that calls it "pink", not a, say, American site.
Are you sure though? All purple LEDs I've seen on keyboards (including Max Keyboards) have been magenta-pink-like, not quite purple, but also definitely not pink. These LEDs you're calling pink are not really pink either. Call them magenta. And different camera settings will portray them more pink or more purple, so if you're looking at videos or photos--you will see a variety of shades.
I can see how you might see these as pink..but IMO they're closer to purple...The color coming back into the keyboard (leaking on the sides of the keycaps) is definitely purple...what you're seeing coming out of the keys, because of brightness, looks closer to pink...Have you tried turning down the brightness a bit?
I tried to adjust the spacebar LEDs on my blue LED board to get the proper mix to make a "deep purple", but I wasn't able to. The closest I came was the hot pink looking color that is in Blue's photo. I think the purple I saw in the videos were just an artifact of the camera sensor. I was under the impression it was a deeper purple than the one pictured. All the pictures I have seen on the internet of "purple" LED backlights on Ducky boards look pink.
I just tried that demo and it crashed my board (this has happened a few times now). I rebooted and was able to perform the demo without it crashing. This keyboard seems pretty unstable at the moment. I didn't see anything better than a hot pink or magenta.
Purple with white caps (like Shine 2 had) it will look soo sexy :D
Well..guess where I got the idea? ;)Purple with white caps (like Shine 2 had) it will look soo sexy :DShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/QtFvrpS.jpg)
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You can also see that the purple-"magenta" LEDs coming through pink caps definitely don't look pink. They are significantly more blue.Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/uFzJ4ct.jpg)
Guess you can always turn the backlight off and learn to touch type.
Are there any clear blue caps that you can put over those pink leds to make them look purple?
Can we get a link to the promotional video in question? I'd like to see the discrepancy between what you saw, and what you received.
Can we get a link to the promotional video in question? I'd like to see the discrepancy between what you saw, and what you received.
Guess you can always turn the backlight off and learn to touch type.
Guess you can always turn the backlight off and learn to touch type.
yeah but what about hardcore gamers? how will we know he is hard to the core?
Those might actually be blue LEDs that you thought were examples of purple. Their blue has some purple shade to it, which is a known fact based on reviews and photos from owners of Shine II models with blue LEDs. It's not uncommon to see their Blue LED Shines look UV-purple on photos. Same with white LEDs that photograph quite blue. They never said "this is a purple LED keyboard you are looking at, so there's nothing misleading. LEDs are a pain to correctly portray, and either the cameras don't pick up the color accurately (most often the case) or those are actually their blue-UV LEDs that ended up looking properly purple. I'm betting the "purple" LED one would look white / pink, as that's how my camera always picked it up. I had to do post-processing to get it to look like it does in person. My Shine II with White LEDs always comes out looking blue in photos, no matter what white balance setting I choose.
P.S.: Random examples of blue LEDs having a purple shade to various degree
(look how properly purple it looks! but those are "blue" LEDs)
in the first video i posted you can see the YOTS is purple and there's a blue LED keyboard right above it and you can see their differences quite clearly
in the first video i posted you can see the YOTS is purple and there's a blue LED keyboard right above it and you can see their differences quite clearly
Zero Shine use a different shade of blue LEDs.
Edit: PS Canons has a really tough time picking up the correct shade of blue. Nikon has no problem.