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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: fillsoko on Tue, 12 August 2014, 17:23:36
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Hello everyone,
a friend of my exposed me to mechanical keyboards. I'm infected now.
I'd like to start designing key caps. Can anyone give me good advice on that. I've already downloaded templates from WASD and pimp my keyboard. I'm very proficient in photoshop, more than illustrator. I'd like to start with recreating the AMSTRAD CPC keyboard since this is very colorful in its original state.
Whats of greatest interest are fonts, is there a collection of fonts used anywhere?
Best,
Filip
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Welcome to Geekhack!
Designing keycaps - you mean making your own mods and sculpted designs, or just the legends printed on them?
Either way there are lots of people around here with the same interests :)
Have a look in the making stuff together (http://geekhack.org/index.php?board=117.0) area about making actual keycaps, and keyboard key caps (http://geekhack.org/index.php?board=80.0) for designing legends/pictures.
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Hi Filip! You like to design keycaps, ok, but how do you plan to produce them?
However, since you are German I propose that you design German legends! Almost all Groubuys of “Signature Plastics” (resp. their website pimpmykeyboard.com) ignore German legends. Und wenn du viele Interessenten möchtest (was bei deutschen Tastenbeschriftungen schwierig ist) würde ich vorschlagen, du verzichtest ganz auf Farben und machst was in Grautönen, weil Farben immer Geschmackssache sind, und dem einen gefällt die Farbe nicht, und dem anderen gefällt jene Farbe nicht, da kommt man schlecht auf einen gemeinsamen Nenner. Schön wäre auch eine Schriftart ohne Ecken und Kanten, matt3o hat ja kürzlich den “Granite Set”-Groupbuy gestartet und dabei eine abgerundete Schriftart verwendet, Gotham Rounded, um genau zu sein, hier ein Link dazu: http://keypuller.com/granite/ (http://keypuller.com/granite/). Das ist momentan die Referenz in Sachen Ästhetik.