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Offline zoolzoo

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What's the difference between these caps?
« on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 15:08:14 »
Hi. I'm new at keycaps!
 
Below we have my Filco board with some custom caps. The "WASD" keys are the red set from WASD Keyboards. The two red's in the upper right corner are from Keypop. What is the difference in plastic between these two that cause the different coloration? Also, is there a vendor that sells a nice "WASD" set that will be the DARK red like the Keypop keys? I really want them to match.   :)
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Kevin


 
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Offline Vintage

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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 15:58:12 »
They are both ABS plastic. Not all plastic colors are the same, and the WASD keyboards red just happens to be a very light shade of red. The only difference with the plastics is that the "awesomeface" keys are doubleshot and the WASD set is laser etched, but that does not affect color anyway.
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Offline reaper

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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 16:09:47 »
There are so many shades of red.  I don't remember seeing a WASD cluster with that deeper shade of red before but I could be wrong.





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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 17:17:54 »
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Offline Amarok

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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 18:23:13 »
Quote from: tauburn on Wed, 26 December 2012, 17:17:54
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KBC-Red-Dyesub-Thick-PBT-WASD-Key-Set-Cherry-MX-Keycaps-/330840341013?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item4d079efa15

these are more the color you want

Just be aware that these are Cherry profile and thus slightly lower than your current OEM profile caps.
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Offline TotalChaos

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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:33:39 »
@zoolzoo

There are over 16 million colors.  You can spend your whole life buying pieces of plastic from different companies and no pieces from 2 different companies is ever going to match in color.  Assuming you buy 10 different colors per day, you just won't live long enough to see a random match.


Best u can achieve is to get matching colors from 1 particular company.
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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 00:16:14 »
And no-one has a yellow like the Filco yellow.
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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 03:29:15 »
Quote from: rowdy on Thu, 27 December 2012, 00:16:14
And no-one has a yellow like the Filco yellow.

This seems like the saddest fact in keyboards
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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 06:28:24 »
Thank you guys for the responses.
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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 18:44:58 »
So since I want everything to match, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and create / order a custom keycap set from WASD. How do you guys think it will look with the camo?  ;D

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Re: What's the difference between these caps?
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 27 December 2012, 21:54:36 »
I don't know about the camo, but that orange and blue seem to go together quite well.  They set off the grays quite nicely.
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