It was a unanimous vote for 3385c, bar one but that might have been mutthunt's initial vote because I don't think I allowed for editing responses on the form.
Current novelty ideas are based around the idea of Iconography; the nostalgia for past days, old ways of life and forgotten gods. When we seemed closer to and yet less aware of the essence of being human.
I wanted to keep the feeling of vaporwave imagery but go in a novel direction. Thanks to Meatsmoothies for their help
1. Sacred Ibis novelty for backspace or shift, representing the Egyptian deity
Thoth2. Eye novelty perhaps for esc or other 1u keys
3. Four-winged serpent novelty, Ansi enter (maybe shift)
4. Ares, the decrepit god of war; ISO novelty
5. Feather novelty, representing a desire for freedom. R4 key: 1.25u/1u key? An alt version will be avail which will be mirrored in the other direction
There might be more but these are the initial assortment of novelties, I will probably try to get them rendered soon so it's easier to see what they will look like. My current idea is that the 'accents' will be novelty keys with a 3385 background, or 333c alternatively and 190c as the legend colour, but i'm open to suggestions.
In regards to mod colours, I have been looking for alternatives. It seems like the 4240c etc isn't viable due to a lack of contrast. Hopefully the attached render will illustrate it for you to see.
To explain the process, I started off with colours that looked good irl or that I thought would work well on the RAL book and Pantone colour guides, and then wanted to test the contrast to see if they would be viable.
The renders are depicted in direct sunlight conditions currently - in real life indoors during the daytime the colour references for the mod colours do look noticeably darker to me.
I'll try to work out the best way to do the renders going forward, whether that's with renders in different lighting environments or just showing a comparison like was done with Future Funk, i'm not sure at this point.
That being said, I will endeavour to make the renders as representative of the chosen colours as possible.
The last 3 make it easier to see how much of a difference contrast can make. 080 60 05 is probably best in terms of beige colours here.