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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Kazam on Mon, 23 February 2015, 12:55:30
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Hello everyone. :)
I'm new to the forums - been halfway lurking for a couple of weeks. I was hoping to ask your advice.
Around christmas I got my first mechanical keyboard - Das Keyboard 4 with blank keys. At the same time I decided to change from qwerty to colemak with keys for norwegian characters. A month later I got a custom WASD v2 with the correct glyphs.
Now I'm thinking about getting a new computer mainly for gaming and need yet another keyboard.
I don't like having the wrong glyphs on the keys, and with my own version of colemak, there is no way to get correct glyphs without a custom key-set (like wasd).
What are my options when looking for a new keyboard? I would like to try some other switches (both my das and wasd have blues).
I guess the TL;DR is: ISO layout - 105 (or TKL), blank keys or keys with custom glyphs, clean design (macros/media keys/backlighing not a must), something else than mx blues, and hopefully not insanely expensive. What are my options? :)
Thank you for any input, guys!
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Hello everyone. :)
I'm new to the forums - been halfway lurking for a couple of weeks. I was hoping to ask your advice.
Around christmas I got my first mechanical keyboard - Das Keyboard 4 with blank keys. At the same time I decided to change from qwerty to colemak with keys for norwegian characters. A month later I got a custom WASD v2 with the correct glyphs.
Now I'm thinking about getting a new computer mainly for gaming and need yet another keyboard.
I don't like having the wrong glyphs on the keys, and with my own version of colemak, there is no way to get correct glyphs without a custom key-set (like wasd).
What are my options when looking for a new keyboard? I would like to try some other switches (both my das and wasd have blues).
I guess the TL;DR is: ISO layout - 105 (or TKL), blank keys or keys with custom glyphs, clean design (macros/media keys/backlighing not a must), something else than mx blues, and hopefully not insanely expensive. What are my options? :)
Thank you for any input, guys!
The Keyboard Company.
http://www.keyboardco.com/index.asp
Very good and reliable online shop.
They don't do custom keycaps (to the best of my knowledge, only WASD does), but they have a blank Cherry keyboard with MX black, rather good price:
http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/blank-superior-gold-contact-linear-action-104-key-keyboard-black.asp
There is also a Filco with "Ninja" keys and Cherry MX browns:
http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/uk-filco-ninja-majestouch-2-nkr-tactile-action-keyboard.asp
You can also purchase an ISO Cherry MX keyboard somewhere else and purchase blank keycaps separately:
http://www.keyboardco.com/product/blank-black-filco-105-key-keyset.asp
They have a section called "Mechanical Keyboards - Swedish/Finnish/Nordic". They also have a "Filco Danish and Norwegian Part Ninja Keyset" (£6) that you can use on a Swedish/Finnish keyboard, but I don't think it would work for Colemak.