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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: dbme on Mon, 23 June 2014, 10:35:18

Title: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: dbme on Mon, 23 June 2014, 10:35:18
I love the half-width keys used for the directions and function buttons on compact Mac keyboards.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/IBook_with_DVORAK.JPG)

Are there mechanical keyboards that use them?
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: Frenir on Mon, 23 June 2014, 10:40:43
Not to my knowledge, no.
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: HPE1000 on Mon, 23 June 2014, 11:15:29
Alps keyboards can have half height keys
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: HipsterPunks on Mon, 23 June 2014, 12:06:14
Alps keyboards can have half height keys

HPE is correct some alps boards use them
(http://i.imgur.com/m4GTbzk.jpg)
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: Pacifist on Mon, 23 June 2014, 12:07:52
Alps keyboards can have half height keys

HPE is correct some alps boards use them
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/m4GTbzk.jpg)


what's that first board?
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 23 June 2014, 19:41:37
There are some MX caps like that too...
(http://www.av4you.com/ebay/img6/575e.jpg)
pretty sure SP made them.
Though, you can't have them right on top of each other like on a rubberdomes as the switch still needs a minimum distance from each other.
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: Zeal on Mon, 23 June 2014, 19:48:12
(http://gw3.alicdn.com/bao/uploaded/i4/10521032773643932/T1VXRIXxNiXXXXXXXX_!!0-item_pic.jpg_640x640q90.jpg) Appears to be from the same keyboard that Ivan linked. Except the other 1x keys have crossbar and don't look like DCS profile.
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: okwchin on Tue, 24 June 2014, 10:38:25
The limitation likely being the size of the switch. MX switches are what they are, and maybe there are no commercially available MX series switches in a smaller dimension? I am providing an educated guess here, and have not researched it further.

The narrow switches pictured could still have full size switches inside, as the buttons have at least a full space width apart anyway.
Title: Re: Half-height keycaps?
Post by: Moosecraft on Tue, 24 June 2014, 11:00:29
DSA profile are quite low but are not sculpted.