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Title: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: Steezus on Tue, 29 December 2015, 00:42:59
I'm trying to come up with a way that could fix light bleeding on caps. I believe it would be best if there was a way to make a thin black shell on the inside of the cap blocking all light from shining through. I wanted to see if anybody had any other suggestions, designs, or current ways to fix this issue. I'm currently to be trying out a few ideas and report back if there is any sort of success.

I cut out a piece of black paper just to see how effective it could be, it worked surprisingly well. It is obviously not a permanent solution. I'm hoping to create a thin mold for the inside of the cap that would cover the entire inside of the cap while having a cutout for the stem.
(http://i.imgur.com/qBt11Lh.jpg)

Any reason why I would not prefer to use any sort of tape, paper, etc. is that it would be ruined if I would ever want to wash the caps.
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:04:14
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=66567.0
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: Steezus on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:18:19
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=66567.0

Hmmm, thank you for sharing. That seems to work but at the same time I would almost like to make a mold so it would be easy to just pop inside the cap rather than applying tape to each individual one. If I just get too frustrated then I will definitely use that method.
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:42:26
Another option is to colour the underside of the keycaps with something like a Sharpie, but that would not be as readily reversible.

Or get thicker keycaps.
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: Steezus on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:44:05
Another option is to colour the underside of the keycaps with something like a Sharpie, but that would not be as readily reversible.

Or get thicker keycaps.

Yeah I was thinking a Sharpie but that is quite the permanent fix. I like the caps I currently have and they don't come in any sort of thicker option so that is obviously out the picture, I'm sure that's going to be what a lot of people are going to recommend.
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: bocahgundul on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:52:02
Don't use led?  :p :p
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: Steezus on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:53:21
I'm honestly about to just wipe this thread since I know it's already going to be filled with ****posters. If you don't have anything beneficial to say then don't waste your time.
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:55:04
Don't use led?  :p :p

Need underglow!!1!
Title: Re: Best way to stop keycap light bleed?
Post by: bocahgundul on Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:59:45
Use thicker caps?  :p :p :p
I'm sorry mate

 just use some kind of cloth that can be removed when you want to clean the caps