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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: Senbei on Wed, 03 September 2014, 10:27:50
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I bought a WASD Keyboards 87-key keyboard with clear switches and a custom set of keycaps I designed to look similar to old Commodore keyboards, especially the C64-SX and C128 ones, but with the font of earlier CBM machines and very first VIC-20.
They offer UV printing now, and this is what I needed for this set with two-color legends.
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I'm quite happy with the result, but you can notice that legends are not horizontally centered, it's particularly evident with the HOME key where the E overflows to the right.
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And just because it felt silly to have the possibility to print any color and print only black and gray, I threw in the batch also some key with the blue and red Commodore logo:
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I noticed the same thing when I had them print me Mac keys for my WASD. The legends on the white keys were also kind of blurry and I wasn't too happy with how thing the keycaps were. The WASD v2 with custom keys was my first mechanical keyboard though so I didn't know any different, then I got a Poker II with PBTs and immediately ordered a set of Ducky PBTs for my WASD and absolutely love them.
However, they do offer a service that nobody else does, and there turn around time is pretty damn quick.