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Title: Creating a keyset with Varmilo PBT dye sub keycaps?
Post by: Flowshi on Sat, 04 November 2017, 09:03:55

Anyone ever thought of creating a custom keyset with Varmilos keycaps?

First I like their caps a lot. High quaility thick PBT with a nice feel, nice texture, nice sound and nice legends, prefer them over GMK anyday. Saw on Tom's hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/varmilo-mechanical-keyboards-computex-2017,35061.html) that they have new colors. That turquise is so tempting. So why not creating a custom keyset.

+high quality pbt
+affordable
+probably easier to produce compared to double shots
+probably not so much issues with moq
+possibility of creating special caps (look at their space keys)
-limitations of dye sub (dark legends on lighter caps)

So if anyone comes up with a nice set (especially that turquise) count me in.

Title: Re: Creating a keyset with Varmilo PBT dye sub keycaps?
Post by: Tom_Kazansky on Sat, 04 November 2017, 21:27:35

I agree!
though anyone has any informations about their keys support? I mean do they have keys to support HHKB-layout, Winkeyless, 1800,...

their Summer Trilogy (https://en.zfrontier.com/collections/varmilo/products/varmilo-summer-trilogy) sets are very nice but those sets only support standard ANSI layout, so I was holding back from buying them.

and +1 to turquoise!  ;D