geekhack

geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: Abn on Sat, 19 October 2013, 17:49:19

Title: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: Abn on Sat, 19 October 2013, 17:49:19

So i preordered my shine 3 and it should be here this week, and I was wondering if anyone had any cool ideas of what I should do keycap wise with it !


I am open to any suggestions and pictures of your own!


-Abn

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 19 October 2013, 19:33:53

Enjoy it as it is for a few weeks to let yourself become accustomed to it.

As for backlight-friendly keycap sets, there are not many of those around, mainly those made by Ducky which you can pick up from a few places.

For non-backlight-friendly keycaps, the Ducky has a standard layout so almost any standard set should fit.

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: Abn on Sat, 19 October 2013, 20:27:46

Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 19 October 2013, 19:33:53

Enjoy it as it is for a few weeks to let yourself become accustomed to it.

As for backlight-friendly keycap sets, there are not many of those around, mainly those made by Ducky which you can pick up from a few places.

For non-backlight-friendly keycaps, the Ducky has a standard layout so almost any standard set should fit.

Ya hmm, I guess ill just stay with the regular keycaps... Im a sad panda.


Edit... I found some I want, does anyone know if there are any like this that will fit a Ducky ? :D

http://www.maxkeyboard.com/max-universal-black-translucent-mechanical-keyboard-keycap-set.html


Edit 2: It does fit ducky and I am pretty sure it also has cherry style modifiers! So this is the set I will be getting :D

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 19 October 2013, 21:01:29

Those ones will give you a different look to the standard Ducky keycaps.

Instead of each letter lighting up when the backlighting is on, the legends are printed on the side of the keycaps, and the backlighting just makes the top of the key glow a bit.

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: terran5992 on Sat, 19 October 2013, 21:02:31

You could try to find a different colored set of backlit keys

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 19 October 2013, 21:58:44

What do you mean, terran5

Quote from: terran5992 on Sat, 19 October 2013, 21:02:31

You could try to find a different colored set of backlit keys

What do you mean? The colour usually comes from the LEDs.

There are coloured transparent keycaps though. There are also opaque keycaps but that are not very thick, so the light shows through them anyway (but you get to see the struts inside)
You could use different colours of such keycaps on the board if it has white backlighting.

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 19 October 2013, 22:55:43

Or, with white LEDs (mainly), you can get small plastic caps that fit over the LEDs under the keycaps to change the colours that shine through.

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: BrockSamson on Sun, 20 October 2013, 20:42:40

What do they call those little plastic caps anyways? Do they work well? Know where to get them?

Title: Re: KeyCaps For My TKL Shine 3!
Post by: xecut on Sun, 20 October 2013, 22:24:17

Get a Snake keycap from geekfeng ! LOL
since Shine3 kinda symbolises Year of the snake.  :))
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/MKC-Snake-Year-3D-Ti-Grey-Anodized-Aluminum-Backlight-R4-Cherry-MX-Keycap-/00/s/NjM0WDY0Mg==/z/6ngAAMXQDK1Rwm5w/$(KGrHqIOKpMFG7DQipwcBRwm5wK8MQ~~60_35.JPG)

Or maybe, get a set of PBT DoubleShot keycaps. Looks pretty awesome i reckon.