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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: SoReckless on Sat, 02 July 2016, 09:51:10

Title: NPKC keycaps
Post by: SoReckless on Sat, 02 July 2016, 09:51:10

Hi everyone,

I am looking into buying these keycaps;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Orange-60-87-104-Top-Side-Non-PBT-KeyCap-Set-printed-for-Cherry-switch-NPKC-/282032679368 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Orange-60-87-104-Top-Side-Non-PBT-KeyCap-Set-printed-for-Cherry-switch-NPKC-/282032679368)
does anyone have experience with these, I am mainly concerned about the color, I want some bright orange keycaps, but they seem very pastel on the pictures of the seller. we all know the pictures of sellers often can't be trusted to be color accurate.
If these are as they appear on the pictures, I would rather go with green or light-blue.
I am also ordering just a basic white set as I really like that these are cheap and have an option to be side-printed.
other general comments on these keycaps are also appreciated.

Title: Re: NPKC keycaps
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 02 July 2016, 19:28:01

I have some NPKC keycaps from a previous Massdrop, albeit the mint ones.

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/npkc-top-printed-pbt-keycaps?mode=guest_open

The Massdrop pics are usually fairly representative, and you can compare the various colours they have.

I'd say that these are probably a more pastel orange, rather than a bright, vivid orange.

Title: Re: NPKC keycaps
Post by: Scivive on Sun, 03 July 2016, 05:13:23

The legends are barely visible, and look quite bad really.  I'm got mint alphas on purple mods.

Title: Re: NPKC keycaps
Post by: xtrafrood on Sun, 03 July 2016, 11:55:00

NPKC sets are pretty popular on Taobao/Ebay. If you can't find what you want on Ebay you might be able to find it on Taobao

Title: Re: NPKC keycaps
Post by: MOZ on Mon, 04 July 2016, 06:33:18

Aren't PBT colors in general more pastel like?

Title: Re: NPKC keycaps
Post by: SoReckless on Wed, 06 July 2016, 16:16:22

First of all, sorry it took me so long to reply again.
How exactly do you guys easily shop on taobao? I managed to find some orange keycap sets by looking up 'keycap' and 'orange' in Chinese. Is this How you guys do it or am I missing something?