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January 17, 2026: IC Launched

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"Is this inspired by vintage 70's Honeywell, the Oco version, or 7bit's Rounds?"
"Yes."

Well, Honey! is a remix of the classic Honeywell colorway, last offered in SA profile eight years ago. My goal is to make these colors available in SA again for everyone who missed out before, while also doing something a little different than a straight rerun. These are colors that look good in any combination, and we haven't had a red SA set in a hot minute. So I've swapped the red accents for the white alphas, creating a red and grey set with a solid black number pad like the one used on the original terminals.


Vintage 1982(?) Honeywell board, photo by taek

This set features vintage legends drawn from various Honeywell terminals of the past, but also novelties and legends from the "Honey" colorway Rounds of the 2010s. Signature Plastics has graciously opened up these formerly-restricted plates for everyone going forward, and several novelties from those runs are making their first appearance here in a decade.

If doing a big, new SA set nowadays seems ambitious, you bet it is! I know SA can be a tough sell in 2026. But I have experience bringing ostentatious, throwback SA sets to life in the present day, and I'm hoping to make some magic happen again.

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Vendors
US: Saber Keebs
UK: ProtoTypist

Please note that as of the end of 2025, Signature Plastics is no longer accepting new designer-created sets to sell through their own SPKeyboards storefront, so this will be sold entirely through independent vendors.

Saber and Proto both successfully ran SA Teletype with me last year, and Jae carried History of Violets, among many other SA sets in the past. So both vendors onboard so far have experience making SA sets happen. Both also closely consult with SP, and know the company well.

If you've a vendor and would be interested in carrying this set in your region, reach out to me here, or message me (piperaceae_) on Discord.

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Dates
I'm targeting Q1 or Q2 2026 for a group buy. Shipping probably ~3 months after the GB ends.

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Colors and Materials
All keys are doubleshot ABS. Colors are Signature Plastic stock resins, in the same colors as both the 2018 Honeywell run and the 2010s Rounds.

Alphas are RAS with WFK legends. Mods are GPA with WFK legends. Accents are NN with WFK legends.

     

Well, Honey! will match with SA Spectra, the red text novelties from SA Teletype, SA Jack Selectric, and of course 2018 SA Honeywell and 7bit's Honey sets.

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Legends
Signature Plastics has opened up all of the restricted legends from the Rounds sets a decade ago for use by all designers. Since many of those keys were previously available in the Honey colorway, I'm offering them here again.

The first of these is the interrobang, which I recently used in my SA Selectresque private run, and in an aftermarket add-on for History of Violets. Joining it are the Webwit duck, Helvetic cross, and KeebRunner, all making their first appearances in a set since circa 2016.

This also means that the much-requested flat-top Gorton 3 can finally be used again! The one variation of it that doesn't yet exist, flat-top UK 3 with £, requires a new plate made for this set, which will be free for anyone else to use in the future. Numpad 3 and F3 will be flat-top as well.

     

Finally, I've tried to sprinkle in some vintage Honeywell terminal legends from SP's extensive archives. I'm borrowing unique mod legends from multiple old Honeywell boards, rather than attempting to faithfully reproduce any single model.

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Kitting
Base Kit

The base kit is similar to the ones from History of Violets and Grand Budapest Round 2. It includes 4-key 40s, UK ISO, and black accent keys, plus an interrobang since that's my thing now.

Extension and Novelty Kit

Alternates, accent arrows, HHKB mods, and expanded 40% coverage. There are also former Rounds novelties like the KeebRunner, Webwit duck, and Helvetic cross; plus a Roman numeral macro column.

Numpad Kit

The numpad uses retro chonky operator legends, and is all-black to match the look of vintage Honeywell terminals, which featured solid black number pads.

Spacebar Kit

Alice bars, HHKB 6u centered bar, and bars for 3-1-3 and 2.25-1.25-2.75 splits.

Alert Row Kit

A black alert numrow, with monolegend numerals including flat-top 3. Also contains black variants of all row 1 novelties. (This does not contain any numpad keys since that's already solid black, nor the black "Clear Reset" key that's in the base.)

Others
The feedback form includes a question about other potential kits. Those are long shots mind you, but if there's proof of popular demand for something, I'll see what I can do.

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Pricing
TBD, but in keeping with regular SA base sets (versus giant monokits).

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Board Renders

Minimi40 by keebibi


Portico 65 by TKC


J-03 by ProtoTypist


F1-8X by Geon


Werk One by Werk.Technica


M60 by Rama

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Thanks
Thank you to Bob and Melissa at Signature Plastics for the quotes, legend research, and making the 7bit legends available. Thanks to Jae at ProtoTypist for giving me the idea for this set, and also working with SP to help free up the previously restricted legends. And to Kenny at Saber Keebs, for volunteering to carry yet another one of my sets when it's not even 40's-oriented this time.

Thanks to Originative, Prime Keyboards, Mcmcmc, 7bit, and anyone else who's run straight Honeywell in the past. (And to whoever at Honeywell put these colors together to begin with.)

And thank you to all of the members of the Keyboard Designers Forum, and SPKeyboards's design channel, for helping me fine-tune this over the past couple weeks. (I'll also pre-thank BodyOrgan in advance for the inevitable fan-driven Vim and Colevrak aftermarket kit, if this run succeeds.)