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Offline ANightOnCloudNine

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I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« on: Sun, 27 September 2015, 05:20:15 »
I don't know what's good or not. suggest me some.

Offline raymogi

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 27 September 2015, 05:22:57 »
If you mean the whole keyset, then there's not that many anyway. It's just a choice between colors.

widebasket of ebay is selling the orange and lime green one right now.
Please feed my addiction.

Offline ANightOnCloudNine

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 27 September 2015, 05:23:51 »
If you mean the whole keyset, then there's not that many anyway. It's just a choice between colors.

widebasket of ebay is selling the orange and lime green one right now.

Thanks for the heads up.  :thumb:

Offline WhitePlate

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 27 September 2015, 15:03:38 »
Roastpotatoes is having an IC on rgb topre modifiers atm if you're interested
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=73296.0 

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 28 September 2015, 21:57:48 »
As it stands, there isn't much choice, you just pick colors. You can get colored sets on eBay. I am looking for a set of black printed caps myself and it's not that easy...

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Matt3o is working with Topre to produce more keysets, possibly including a Skull Squadron design!

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I made some more tests but I didn't really find the deal breaker. I used the font Topre likes the most, but I'm still looking for an alternative. Since they want to do something different from what they already have I'd go icon mods and centered legends.

At the end I narrowed it down to Blazing and Glacial Sets both with colored alphas.

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I'm not very fond of the Print screen and pause/break icons. Any suggestion welcome.

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Offline ANightOnCloudNine

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 28 September 2015, 22:01:54 »
As it stands, there isn't much choice, you just pick colors. You can get colored sets on eBay. I am looking for a set of black printed caps myself and it's not that easy...

BUT

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Matt3o is working with Topre to produce more keysets, possibly including a Skull Squadron design!

More

I made some more tests but I didn't really find the deal breaker. I used the font Topre likes the most, but I'm still looking for an alternative. Since they want to do something different from what they already have I'd go icon mods and centered legends.

At the end I narrowed it down to Blazing and Glacial Sets both with colored alphas.

Show Image


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I'm not very fond of the Print screen and pause/break icons. Any suggestion welcome.

variant 2

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Offline Charizard

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 29 September 2015, 00:42:29 »
Yeah, aside form the old colored sets that are out of production/quite pricey on ebay, there isn't much out there except to wait for Matt30's new design when that comes out sometime in 2016.

Offline Herothereu

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 01 October 2015, 17:20:24 »
Get a Novatouch.

Problem solved.

Offline jerue

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 01 October 2015, 21:34:57 »
Get a Novatouch.

Problem solved.


ehhhhh

Technically speaking yes this would solve the problem, except the modifier/spacebar stabilizers are different in the Novatouch vs a real Topre board. CTRL ALT will also eventually sell some T-MX sliders, so no need to buy a Novatouch for stem swapping unless you're impatient and can deal with price increases due to dwindling stock.

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 01 October 2015, 23:43:17 »
HHKB (stock or Type-S ~ both are great, and you can't go wrong), or Realforce 55g. They are end game, bb.

Bro Caps, KBK's, Binge Caps, etc. There are so many great artisans on GH!

CTRL ALT is also releasing MX compatible Topre stems too!!!

Welcome to the Topre club, bro.

Offline Herothereu

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Re: I need some topre keycap suggestions.
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 02 October 2015, 10:58:05 »
Get a Novatouch.

Problem solved.


ehhhhh

Technically speaking yes this would solve the problem, except the modifier/spacebar stabilizers are different in the Novatouch vs a real Topre board. CTRL ALT will also eventually sell some T-MX sliders, so no need to buy a Novatouch for stem swapping unless you're impatient and can deal with price increases due to dwindling stock.

Cherry MX modifiers work fine on a Novatouch.  Why would you want to mix Topre/Cherry?