Matcha Latte Keycaps (IC)

[AwesomeHawkz]

I Love Matcha and I love the colors of matcha so I thought to make a matcha themed color way for key caps, but I don't know if anyone else is interested. Please leave some feedback and if anyone who has experience with designing keycaps want to help me I would sure appreciate it. There are some obvious flaws like font and font size and no novelties but this is just to see if anyone would even be interested in matcha themed keycaps.
https://imgur.com/a/dkZUqUK

[Pluto19]

no pics. no thank you.

[lbassett21]

Just a pro tip, if you want to start an IC, really have your ideas on paper and start working on it before you introduce it to the community. The best way is to make a very appealing post with photos and renders of the proposed keycap set. I think you should take a step back and really start formulating those ideas so you can sell it to people and they might or might not want it! Good luck, but I doubt you’ll get much interest at all with where you’re at right now.

[captain]

Matcha is just leftover green tea leaf powder, right?
Looks pretty. Good luck!


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[ppnp253]

As with many premature IC's on geekhack now, you should do more research and thinking before making an IC post. What colors are you using? GMK or other manufacturer? What proxies are willing to sell your set? What kits are you providing? Hit up r/mk or r/mm to find someone who can render keyboards.

If all you do is write a few sentences and expecting positive feedback, you're not gonna get it from here.

[Gondolindrim]

Someone please link the Krelbit copypasta

[edasaur]

I'm assuming you're referring to this?

I appreciate the hustle and desire to capitalize on zeitgeist while you can.

That being said, early ICs are simply not the way to go about publishing a set concept. A bad early IC is way worse than a late, fleshed out IC. ICs are all about impressions and the impression this IC leaves upon me is very poor. You're looking for positive reception as confirmation for renders? You're not going to find it with this low quality of an IC.

It's clear that you're fairly new to the community. You made a GH account to post this thread. This is a 104 key base kit. That's something you majorly flesh out before you even have colors in a lot of cases. Your colors are web colors, meaning you're oblivious to the IC process and GMK production as a whole, things you can easily find out more about by visitng the trove of old GB and IC threads, or even uniqey's website. This comes off as a cash grab from an inexperienced community member, which, to be honest, I'm not ragging on, but I'm definitely not about it. Take some time in the hobby to be part of the community. Be a little more active. Find out what works, what's good, why it works, why it's good, and talk with more types of folks to engage in that exchange. That's what it's really about. While the "i see guy make thing, i can make thing too!" mentality certainly has driven a lot of cool stuff, this is not one of those cases.

Renders went from being a nice to have in ICs to nearly a need to have. It shows you have some level of personal commitment to the set that you would even pay for mockups our of your own pocket before anything is official. To not have renders and to just show off a set of KLEs, is definitely not a good look, and the KLEs do a very poor job of showing the colors that you want to show, or maybe they do a really good job, but to me they look like blanks. I'm not trying to bog you down or take shots at an easy target, rarely anything ever deserves that. If you're truly invested in making this set happen beyond a text-post and a barely visible KLE render, you need to make a very good impression, so that vendors who see your IC will want to work with ya.

Many people will not buy into the concept if the IC is not good from the get-go. You can sell any concept to anyone as long as the beginning impressions are good enough.

If you're intent on making this happen (and this would have to be very soon, before more eyes can see this and get their first impressions, which, in their current state would result in the set being written off extremely quickly) then you can:

1. Flesh out those layouts.
2. Get some renders.
3. Pick colors that aren't web colors, it's 2020. We have resources to help design GMK sets. GMK has resources to help design GMK sets. Use google, guy.
4. Goals, MOQs, prior contact to GMK show vendors that you're willing to do work beyond "hur dur look at color now shoulder it all for me," which, even if a vendor wouldn't take you up on, they would like to see.
5. Give more of a ****. Going into a project half-assed (you could be fully on board, but this post does certainly not show that) only makes me believe in the project less. If you don't believe in your project enough to give a detailed, commited sales pitch, why should any vendor, or even why should the community believe in it? Dipping your toes into the pool is simply not an option when everyone else who's making successful sets is hopping in headfirst.


cmon guy.

[lbassett21]

Yes, that’s what they were referring to. Thanks for posting that.

[Tonkatonk]

I Love Matcha and I love the colors of matcha so I thought to make a matcha themed color way for key caps, but I don't know if anyone else is interested. Please leave some feedback and if anyone who has experience with designing keycaps want to help me I would sure appreciate it. There are some obvious flaws like font and font size and no novelties but this is just to see if anyone would even be interested in matcha themed keycaps.
https://imgur.com/a/dkZUqUK

Dude what a thoughtful IC you even took the time to make "matcha" green everytime you mentioned it. It's almost like it took you longer to put together the color code for that than looking through proper ICs.

[DetectiveNio]

This isn't even half-ass smh

[Gondolindrim]

I Love Matcha and I love the colors of matcha so I thought to make a matcha themed color way for key caps, but I don't know if anyone else is interested. Please leave some feedback and if anyone who has experience with designing keycaps want to help me I would sure appreciate it. There are some obvious flaws like font and font size and no novelties but this is just to see if anyone would even be interested in matcha themed keycaps.
https://imgur.com/a/dkZUqUK

Dude what a thoughtful IC you even took the time to make "matcha" green everytime you mentioned it. It's almost like it took you longer to put together the color code for that than looking through proper ICs.

Hello I love M A T C H A and the colors of M A T C H A so I thought I'd make a M A T C H A set

There you go

[Pach]

I Love Matcha and I love the colors of matcha so I thought to make a matcha themed color way for key caps, but I don't know if anyone else is interested. Please leave some feedback and if anyone who has experience with designing keycaps want to help me I would sure appreciate it. There are some obvious flaws like font and font size and no novelties but this is just to see if anyone would even be interested in matcha themed keycaps.
https://imgur.com/a/dkZUqUK

Dude what a thoughtful IC you even took the time to make "matcha" green everytime you mentioned it. It's almost like it took you longer to put together the color code for that than looking through proper ICs.

Hello I love M A T C H A and the colors of M A T C H A so I thought I'd make a M A T C H A set

There you go

This is literally how I read it the first time

[duckadence]

Looking at the pic you have, I think the color scheme is good, but the font (specifically for the modifiers) looks pretty bad.

Also, probably wanna go the GMK route for the color saturation. After all, good matcha is vibrant! And in that vein, might wanna brighten up those colors.

But like the others said, get your ideas together and some renders.

[MatthewPham]

pngu has a free and easy to use keycap renderer, https://keycaprenders.com/

for anyone looking to make a new ic, this is an option.

[Lenux]

Hello, the presentation of your post is not quite nice looking.

And you can use the keycaprender website that makes good renders or ask for members of the community to help you.

And maybe make something to make it nice and aesthetic.

Good luck

[Shiro]

i mean i like the vibe of it but like most people are saying put way more effort in this before posting.

[Penguindroppings]

I think you already got the point that this is not a good example of releasing an IC.

There are streamers like Alexotos and Minterly that has done streams about starting a concept and finalizing it in an IC from start to finish to avoid situations like this in GeekHack.  Which btw, is free content.   There are some people in the community that may help out in doing renders (either for a fee or for free that's up to them).

You can't expect people to take something seriously when they have to invest more than $130 (in which i'm being polite in figures) into a set with very little to no effort post.   Take a look at other GB sets that has already been finalized and do a checklist of what is missing in comparison to yours.  Throwing colors into a screen will turn several people away from this IC--even if the concept is a great idea or not.

[Scragg]

If you put a lot more effort and research in I would consider it. It might look good with a grey or black case. This is a render from a free render site. Didn't take long at all. You could probably do better, and use colors that are closer to your design with some time and effort put into the font and renders. I don't know where most of the IC/GB get their really nice ones, but I imagine its learning a bit of software.