Hello, I was scrolling through youtube and I just noticed on the Jane V2 CE the internal backweight has a bunch of holes in it.

I want to know why that is done, I would imagine to make it sound better but I'm not too well versed in it and if it does sound better, why don't other people implement the weight into the boards as well? (I assume Cost but again I'm not sure)

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Likely for acoustic tuning and weight balance. The holes can reduce resonance and slightly improve sound.

Regarding the color pattern in the 40% kit, I recommend adjusting the numrow colors. Because finger movement on orthorlinear and column-staggered keyboards is straight up and down.

Most row-staggered 40s keyboards don't have a numrow, but the V4N4G0N has a partial one. Maybe take a pole to see if there is any interest in numkeys for small row-staggered boards?

Any thoughts from 40s users?

glwic

After testing some more switches, I found another one I really like: The Siliworks Type R Tactile.
It is similar to the Banana Switch. Currently testing them stock -VS- Lighter spring-modded...

So, now it's down to:
 
- Gateron/Everfree Greyfish
- Gateron Jupiter Banana
- Siliworks Type R
- ZealPC Zealios V2
- Kalih Brown Box V2

Quote from: dvorcol on Thu, 02 April 2026, 19:26:16

You could remove the alternate home keys from the 40% kit. This color pattern only works with the QWERTY layout.

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Could you please provide me with some alternative imges? Since I have very little knowledge about the 40 layout, but I would be more than happy to adjust them. :thumb:

Sorry I didn't explain better. I'm just suggesting a way to slightly reduce the price of the 40% kit.

Uniform profile sets like PBS and DSA only need 6 extra keys to support alternative layouts like Dvorak and Colemak. It's common for PBS 40% sets to have them: non-homing F & J plus homing H, U, N, and T. As a Dvorak user I usually request adding these six keycaps to PBS 65% and 100% kits too, but it doesn't work when there is a color pattern in the alphas.