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Title: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: Encabulator on Tue, 18 April 2017, 10:05:31
Got bored, designed this. Calling it "Corruption"


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Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: scwoopz on Tue, 18 April 2017, 10:18:40
Meh. I wouldn't see it running as an actual set without a lot of work. I would say that the green on top is way brighter than any of the greys. As well, the delete key is always the color of the mods, while \| and ~` are not always the mod color. Just to keep those in mind.

Finally, the greens at the bottom look muddy and gross; though that's just personal opinion.
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: Encabulator on Tue, 18 April 2017, 11:12:08
Meh. I wouldn't see it running as an actual set without a lot of work. I would say that the green on top is way brighter than any of the greys. As well, the delete key is always the color of the mods, while \| and ~` are not always the mod color. Just to keep those in mind.

Finally, the greens at the bottom look muddy and gross; though that's just personal opinion.

Yeah I have a whole lot of fine tuning to do with the colors. This was a really quick prototype. I think the fade out is way too gradual and so the bottom looks kinda nasty. Ill work with a bit more.
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: TalkingTree on Wed, 19 April 2017, 05:29:26
Actually it ain't bad. How about a set with legends?
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: Encabulator on Thu, 20 April 2017, 11:18:32
Actually it ain't bad. How about a set with legends?

Dont know what font to use yet. I did a few experiments and I think that it looks better with a gradient for alphas and a solid color for modifiers/side keys. Just made this thing and I think it looks you're standing on mars looking into the sky in some sort of canyon  :)

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Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: TalkingTree on Thu, 20 April 2017, 12:51:01
Dont know what font to use yet.
Cherry's of course.
I like the green version better but the orange one is also good looking.
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: Encabulator on Thu, 20 April 2017, 13:30:49
Dont know what font to use yet.
Cherry's of course.
I like the green version better but the orange one is also good looking.

I'm really bad with colors, what do you think about a more neon or dark/natural shade of green? I'm never intending for this to even get any sort of attention either, I'm just having some fun :P
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: TalkingTree on Thu, 20 April 2017, 13:38:31
what do you think about a more neon or dark/natural shade of green?
Just let all your ideas out. If you're good at 3D modeling, some renders would help.
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: Encabulator on Thu, 20 April 2017, 14:26:06
what do you think about a more neon or dark/natural shade of green?
Just let all your ideas out. If you're good at 3D modeling, some renders would help.

I know some 3d modeling but I'm just gonna scrap this whole thing and start from the ground up. The design is crap IMO
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: Jaymanlp on Fri, 21 April 2017, 09:56:40
what do you think about a more neon or dark/natural shade of green?
Just let all your ideas out. If you're good at 3D modeling, some renders would help.

I know some 3d modeling but I'm just gonna scrap this whole thing and start from the ground up. The design is crap IMO
I wouldn't give up on the concept. Seems like it could go somewhere. Just needs some refinement and I can see it working pretty well. Gradient sets are always nice.

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Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: TelFiRE on Wed, 26 April 2017, 20:23:25
I'm partial to lime green/yellow green :P I think there is a severe lack of keysets utilizing that color. No white font on it though, that ruins it
Title: Re: My First (Bad) Keycap Design (Early Design)
Post by: Encabulator on Fri, 28 April 2017, 11:33:49
I'm partial to lime green/yellow green :P I think there is a severe lack of keysets utilizing that color. No white font on it though, that ruins it

Lime stuff, sorry if the colors are off this laptop monitor is bad

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