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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: trombompoline on Thu, 04 February 2016, 20:44:26

Title: What are your opinions on colouring non-modifier keys?
Post by: trombompoline on Thu, 04 February 2016, 20:44:26

For example, many people choose to have their letter/number keys one colour and their modifiers a different colour but they choose to make their [\] key the same as their modifiers, even though it is not one because it looks better. What are your thoughts on this? Functionality or aesthetics? :thumb:

Title: Re: What are your opinions on colouring non-modifier keys?
Post by: MajorMajor on Thu, 04 February 2016, 21:52:38

I wouldn't say there's any "functionality" difference, I'm sure most of us don't rely very much on color-coded keys to find what to press.

I think the aesthetics can work either way. On my WASDv2 87 I currently have the Deep Space set  with purple modifiers, `,  and  \ because I think it looks best. On my Das Pro4 I left  the ` and \ the same color as my alphas. IMO as long as it's consistent (` and \ match), it looks good.

Title: Re: What are your opinions on colouring non-modifier keys?
Post by: Shaussman on Fri, 05 February 2016, 08:25:42

Aesthetics are the most important thing imo. I don't look at the keyboard to find keys, so "functionally"  color coding keys is kind of useless

Title: Re: What are your opinions on colouring non-modifier keys?
Post by: Geroximo on Fri, 05 February 2016, 18:05:51

I think: it depends.

Title: Re: What are your opinions on colouring non-modifier keys?
Post by: jerue on Fri, 05 February 2016, 19:41:24

it is very much an aesthetics thing. I prefer it.

Title: Re: What are your opinions on colouring non-modifier keys?
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 05 February 2016, 22:55:35

I prefer alphas (i.e. keys that produce a single printable ASCII charater) to be one colour, and all other keys to be another colour.  With the exception of function keys, there F1 to F4 and F9 to F12 are the alpha colour.

Exactly what this SSK look like!