Hey everyone! The group buy for SWG Retroguardia is live, from 9 to 23 November 2026.

A few years after GMK Avanguardia, I'm back with something that feels like its rebellious little sibling.
Retroguardia keeps Avanguardia's geometric vibe and minimalist layout, but swaps the muted palette for something with more bite: a vivid green accent that feels both retro and electric. It's still clean, but this time it's louder and a little more fun.

The name Retroguardia (Italian for "rearguard") plays on Avanguardia ("avant-garde"): same design lineage, flipped energy.
Think old-school synths and analogue oscilloscopes, with a Lissajous figure on the Esc and a scope screen on the Enter.

Dates: 9 to 23 November 2026
Estimated delivery: Q3 2027
Manufacturer: SWG (Swagkeys)
Profile: Cherry
Material: doubleshot ABS
Compatibility: Cherry MX and MX-style switches
Kits: Base and Numpad, sold separately

US: Divinikey, Base $70, Numpad $13
EU: Delta Key Co., Base €75, Numpad €15
UK: Prototypist, Base £53.33, Numpad £10
CA: KeyBay.tech, Base CA$99, Numpad CA$19
SEA: Qwertyqop, Base S$92, Numpad S$17
AU: Switchkeys, Base A$104.99, Numpad A$25
CN and KR: Swagkeys, Base $70, Numpad $13

Prices are the ones on each vendor's page; taxes and shipping depend on the vendor.

The row labels on the sheets follow SWG's numbering: R1 is the bottom row, R4 the number and F rows.
Mods have top-left legends, with icons on Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Backspace and Enter.

Base: Pantone 4280 C, the same deep blurpleish grey as GMK Avanguardia. It reads more grey than black in real life
Legends and green accents: Pantone 7479 C
Purple accents: Pantone 2725 C, Avanguardia's indigo
Legends on the accents: white

Two novelties, both in the base kit and both doubleshot, green on purple.

The Esc gets a Lissajous figure, the shape an oscilloscope draws in X-Y mode.

The 2.25u Enter gets the scope screen itself, with a sine and a square wave over the graticule.

Everything here is a render, not a photo. Click an image for the full size.
The kit sheets and the studio shots are the colour reference; in the lifestyle shots the colours follow the light of the scene.

The dark-only look and UK ISO, side by side:

And the board playing the rack, with sound: the key reel on Instagram.

The boxes are an oscilloscope screen, and the designer card is metal.

There is no deskpad in this group buy. The artwork is picked (it's the one under the boxes above), so tell me if you'd want one.

Thanks to SWG, to the vendors, and to everyone who followed the IC since the GMK days and pushed on the kitting.

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- 12-11-2026 Thread opened