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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: desperados on Sun, 20 September 2015, 13:16:33
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Hi to all
I'm italian, and I'm looking for an iso 105 italian keyboard with white backlights and without macro keys, and I can't find it! So', I've thinked to buy a keyboard like code or quickfire ultimate, and buy keycaps. But I can't find them too: I can find keycaps of every color, with the picture of flowers, hearts, dices, and everything one can imagine, but not a simple, normal, standard iso 150 italian layout. Is there someone that can sell custom keycaps compatible with backlight keyboards? thanks very much
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Vortex have confirmed they're about to release some sets. The ANSI sets have been sold on Massdrop quite often, but that's a very US-centric company, so I don't know if they'll carry the ISO.
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it's unbelievable that I can find so many strange type of keycaps, and I can't find normal iso.... :(
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Hi to all
I'm italian, and I'm looking for an iso 105 italian keyboard with white backlights and without macro keys, and I can't find it! So', I've thinked to buy a keyboard like code or quickfire ultimate, and buy keycaps. But I can't find them too: I can find keycaps of every color, with the picture of flowers, hearts, dices, and everything one can imagine, but not a simple, normal, standard iso 150 italian layout. Is there someone that can sell custom keycaps compatible with backlight keyboards? thanks very much
Here in Sweden we also use the ISO (Nordic, with this legends Ö, Ä and Å) layout and it is a hell to find any good lookin ISO keycaps sets.
I know that Ducky has some ISO/Nordic keycaps sets but there are only 2 Ducky sets to buy here in Sweden, White and Red.
http://www.maxfps.se/keycaps/ducky/s4-keycap-109-set-red
http://www.maxfps.se/keycaps/ducky/s4-keycap-109-set-white
Compatible with backlight.
The problem is that you need a k-board with a standard bottom row for the Ctrl, Win, Alt and FN and the Spacebar keycaps, most gamin k-boards don't have that like corsair k70, k95.
You can take a look here in this old link: http://www.maxkeyboard.com/mechanical-keycap-layout-and-size-chart.html
Ducky, Das, Deck, WASD + some more k-boards have this standard bottom row. Look in the link.
So Duckys + more keycaps sets will not fit the bottom row on corsairs k70, k95, razer blackwidow, cm storm quikfire tk, look in the link.
The size of the standard bottom row keycaps is 1x1.25 for Ctrl, Win, Alt and FN.
Spacebar standard size is 1x6.25.
I solved my problem with the ISO/Nordic keycaps sets, I bought a ANSI layout k-board (got 5 now) last year. So now can I buy keycaps sets on Massdrop, Aliexpress.
Here is some pictures of my old but still workin white ISO/Nordic Ducky Shine 2 with white LEDs.
(http://i.imgur.com/B65S79o.jpg)
With the LEDs on. The pink keycaps set is Duckys own, it come with the k-board when I bought it about 4 years ago.
(http://i.imgur.com/weGMb4S.jpg)
Edit: WASD have custom ISO 105 keycaps sets in Italien, Swedish, UK layouts, I bought a ISO/Swedish 105 keycaps set there last year.
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keycap-set/105-key-iso-cherry-mx-keycap-set.html
Only one problem: http://support.wasdkeyboards.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1374997-are-your-keycaps-compatible-with-backlit-keyboards-
Edit1: Ducky Spacebar Cities Edition, spacebars size is 1x6.25, workin with backlight, needs a standard bottom row keyboard.
(http://i.imgur.com/hW7jM9l.jpg)
Test picture of Duckys Spacebar Cities Edition on my ANSI Ducky Shine 4 69 Edition. Galaxy Class keycaps set bought on Massdrop: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/galaxy-keycaps-set
(http://i.imgur.com/oIGJce8.jpg)
With Duckys original keycaps.
(http://i.imgur.com/bOdnv7Q.jpg)
US.
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1223
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1224
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1225
Ducky ISO/UK layout sets:
http://www.cclonline.com/product/172589/S9C6-L109-UKALV/Keyboard-Accessories/Ducky-Shine-4-ABS-Backlight-Compatible-Keycaps-Purple-UK/KBD0942/
http://www.cclonline.com/product/172589/S9C6-L109-UKALV/Keyboard-Accessories/Ducky-Shine-4-ABS-Backlight-Compatible-Keycaps-Purple-UK/KBD0942/
http://www.cclonline.com/product/172588/S9C6-L109-UKALP/Keyboard-Accessories/Ducky-Shine-4-ABS-Backlight-Compatible-Keycaps-Pink-UK/KBD0941/
http://www.cclonline.com/product/172590/S9C6-L109-UKALW/Keyboard-Accessories/Ducky-Shine-4-ABS-Backlight-Compatible-Keycaps-White-UK/KBD0943/
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I really don't understand how it could be profitable making keycaps with cats or guns and don't making 105 keys for many layouts (not only italian, but spanish, russian, etc. too...)
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I've tried to write to ducky and wasd, they don't produce italian layout and it seems that they will not produce in next times
is there some keycaps' makers that could evaluate making keycaps with italian layout and backlit compatible? maybe if I create a massdrop / groupby and ask for 100 or more sets? thanks
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I've tried to write to ducky and wasd, they don't produce italian layout and it seems that they will not produce in next times
is there some keycaps' makers that could evaluate making keycaps with italian layout and backlit compatible? maybe if I create a massdrop / groupby and ask for 100 or more sets? thanks
I think you need 200 Italians/people to vote for a Italian ISO layout/backlit keycaps drop on Massdrop.
Sometimes there is a Swedish/UK ISO layout kit set but you need too buy the basic ANSI keycaps set first for lets say $30 and then buy the extra Swedish/UK ISO layout keycaps kit for $15 + sometimes you have too buy the numpad kit set extra.
I have some ISO/Nordic 109 keys k-board and some ANSI 108 keys k-boards, most of the time the keycaps sets drops on Massdrop are only for 104 keys k-boards.
So sometime I buy 2 same keycaps sets to get a full 108 keys set.
This Tai-Hao Miami set is a 104 keys keycaps set, I have 2 sets bought from Massdrop and 2 sets bought from Aliexpress.
I'm usin F1-F4 from one of the 3 sets to get a full 108 keys set.
(http://i.imgur.com/7ryGiYU.jpg)'
I changed the 4 last keycaps on k-board to this for some days ago.
(http://i.imgur.com/Mh4tZk9.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/0RIvMjI.jpg)
3 Pumpkin keycaps and 2 Raven from HKP. The third Pumpkin keycap are Esc.
http://link.massdrop.com/click/560143fde661f0b44fcd8276/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFzc2Ryb3AuY29tL2J1eS9wdW1wa2luLWtleWNhcD9tb2RlPWd1ZXN0X29wZW4/541e9ff8ba57e6a6248b4a85B9dd997e8