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Title: clear and blank?
Post by: FinancialWar on Tue, 18 November 2014, 05:55:33

Are there any 100% transparent/clear and blank key caps on the market?

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: Oobly on Tue, 18 November 2014, 06:43:34

http://keyshop.pimpmykeyboard.com/products/translucent-keys/full-clear-translucent-dcs-keycap-sets

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: FinancialWar on Tue, 18 November 2014, 06:57:28

Will these fit Filco 104?

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: jinq-sea on Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:33:08

Yep!

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: margo baggins on Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:35:06

I want to know how they made that spacebar fit on that CM TK, I have a TK and I have SP space bars, and the SP space bars do not fit on my TK :(

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: Oobly on Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:40:12

"Full sets include all keycaps for a standard 104 ANSI layout"

So if your Filco 104 is standard layout (which it is), then yes...  The extra 13 key set is for other layouts like WinKeyless, etc.

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: Oobly on Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:42:32

Quote from: margo baggins on Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:35:06

I want to know how they made that spacebar fit on that CM TK, I have a TK and I have SP space bars, and the SP space bars do not fit on my TK :(

They didn't... They stuffed a standard 6.25x spacebar onto the spacebar switch without the stabilisers installed. You can see the stabilisers don't line up with the stem mounts. No idea why they'd use a TK for the product shots, since it doesn't actually fit on one.

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: margo baggins on Tue, 18 November 2014, 10:07:52

Quote from: Oobly on Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:42:32

Quote from: margo baggins on Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:35:06

I want to know how they made that spacebar fit on that CM TK, I have a TK and I have SP space bars, and the SP space bars do not fit on my TK :(

They didn't... They stuffed a standard 6.25x spacebar onto the spacebar switch without the stabilisers installed. You can see the stabilisers don't line up with the stem mounts. No idea why they'd use a TK for the product shots, since it doesn't actually fit on one.

I thought I could see that, thanks for the confirmation :)

It's keen marketing that's what it is.

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 18 November 2014, 13:15:19

On the red and blue pictures you can also see a fair sized gap between space and Alt on each side.

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: berserkfan on Mon, 24 November 2014, 21:37:11

Quote from: FinancialWar on Tue, 18 November 2014, 05:55:33

Are there any 100% transparent/clear and blank key caps on the market?

You can try the following:

banggood
max keyboard
x-keys (relegendables; they work real well too)

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: 0100010 on Fri, 28 November 2014, 21:11:04

Thanks Gutz for the xkeys suggestion - much cheaper option there compared to SP; relegendable too).

Title: Re: clear and blank?
Post by: berserkfan on Sat, 29 November 2014, 02:32:10

Quote from: 0100010 on Fri, 28 November 2014, 21:11:04

Thanks Gutz for the xkeys suggestion - much cheaper option there compared to SP; relegendable too).

If I find something I like I always talk about it. 

In fact if you want to see how xkeys look in real life just look at my keycaps emporium thread, since I had xkeys that I stuck printed paper inside and taped to a board to mark out the rows and columns!