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Title: Hello everyone
Post by: Reiep on Mon, 23 May 2016, 03:16:46

Hello everyone!

Pierre here, French guy currently living in Romania. I've been bitten by the mechanical keyboard bug when recently buying a WASD Code TKL with MW Brown switches. I've been lurking on the forum for a while and decided to register at last! I'm looking for some nice keysets and I'm pretty sure I'll find what fits me here.

Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 23 May 2016, 05:51:12

Welcome to Geekhack!

I have a CODE TKL with MX clear switches!  Great keyboard, I use it at work.  The black and white theme is minimalistic enough not to cause much comment, although given that I used a variety of Ducky keyboards with different backlight colours, and even an SSK for a little while, everyone's pretty used to me and my "exotic" keyboards :))

Be aware that most keycapsets won't let the backlight shine through.  You can get sets that do let backlighting shine through, but there are not a lot of such sets.

Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: Reiep on Mon, 23 May 2016, 07:33:15

Thanks Rowdy!

I'll have to check the clear too, I'm an heavy typer, it may be good for me.

For the keysets, indeed, it's not easy, plus the LEDs are on the top, I have to be careful of that too. But that's not urgent  :cool:

Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 24 May 2016, 05:46:44

I bottom out everything all the time.  Except clears, which I only bottom out most of the time.

Most LED backlit keyboards have the LEDs at the top of the switches i.e. furthest away from the space bar.  Hence most backlight-friendly keycaps have the legends squashed together at the top edge of the keycap.

It's the few that have the switches reversed and the LEDs closer to the space bar that are the problem :p