Author Topic: [IC] GMK Lilac on Black | Group buy live September 1st! (Read 40561 times)

Sax_______ · « **on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 20:43:13 »

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Group September 1st - October 5th

Welcome to the Interest Check for my first keycap set, GMK LoB (Lilac on Black). This is a very simple keycap set that came out of me realizing I really want a simple Lilac on Black set and there being none at all.

For any questions you can find me on Discord as Sax#2295

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11/24
-Revamped katakana sublegends, I noticed several of the legends were wrong so I decided to use an existing asset for them
-Made small fixes on some errors in numpad (It was missing a barred 5 and the scoop had no scoop)
-Updated renders with katakana subs to show the new sublegends

11/02
-Removed renders with mono katakana alphas and added a render with accent space bar

10/31
-Dropped the Mono Katakana kit. Unfortunately running two alt alphas kits would very likely result in one not reaching MOQ, and the Mono Katakana set just wasn't popular enough to risk keeping it.
-Added NorDeUK kit to further increase compatibility, one of the main goals for this set was to have as much compatibility with as few kits as possible, the base kit will maintain basic ISO support.
-Added a Row 2 escape key for the basic 40s support.
-Revamped the Space Bar kit, removed the unnecessary 1.75u space bars as well as 1 of the 1.25u space bars, added a 1u space bar and Accent color 6.25u and 7.00u space bars, also removed the non centered 6.00u space bar as it was not necessary.

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08/04
-Added Hibi collab

Please fill out the IC form below if you are interested in this set, any feedback is appreciated.
INTEREST CHECK FORM

Nazare 1-60 by Nazare Engineering

Nemui by Bachoo

Cypher by Cable Car Designs

Fuji 65 by CMM Studios

Shiana SSK by Pensa73

US: Vala Supply
Canada: Ashkeebs
Mexico: Rheset
UK: Prototypist
Europe: Candykeys
CN/Intl: KBDFans
Oceania: Switchkeys
SEA: Zion Studios
South Korea: Swagkeys
Japan: Basekeys

To Vheissu for guiding me through the design process and giving me the idea in the first place.
To Zetina for giving me pointers and help when learning blender to make the renders myself because I'm a stubborn idiot.
And to my friends in the KatanaKaji server for supporting me and providing feedback

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mixistor · « **Reply #1 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 20:48:28 »

reserved

darthcapn · « **Reply #2 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 20:49:00 »

Love the base kit kitting and the colors. Definitely a yes for me. If I was to change one thing, I would add an alt mods kit, I have had this issue with a lot of sets where there is an alphas kit besides the main kit and buying them just leaves us with additional alphas being useless. If an alt mods kit is offered one can buy additional alphas and the mod kit to get an additional set without wasting anything!

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Vorge · « **Reply #3 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 20:50:57 »

Im certain I will get this, I agree I would like to have some extra mods so I can use the alt alphas in more keyboards, but other than that I really like the set, GLWIC

vishydesigns · « **Reply #4 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 20:56:59 »

didnt we just get pink on black lol

MIGHTY CHICKEN · « **Reply #5 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:08:01 »

Ooh that looks good, although I would def drop one of the alpha kits maybe plus add a 1u bar to spacebars

zhol · « **Reply #6 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:09:27 »

me likey

Mena · « **Reply #7 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:17:04 »

Nice looking set. Any deskmats planned?

Kinesiologist · « **Reply #8 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:28:05 »

simple and clean, i like it

wahfuhls · « **Reply #9 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:38:07 »

stepped control and r4 caps pls

looks great tho

wanf · « **Reply #10 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:54:17 »

looks an awful lot like black lotus with the modifiers kit

MrBingo · « **Reply #11 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:55:14 »

Reserved

Woovie · « **Reply #12 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 22:44:46 »

Killer colors, I love it

herbologist · « **Reply #13 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 23:14:33 »

I enjoy the set over all! I'm not sure that two different alt alphas would hit moq, so maybe consider that. An extension kit would be nicer than two alt alphas imo, even though they tend to fair poorly on gmk.

totalemon · « **Reply #14 on:** Mon, 25 October 2021, 23:56:04 »

Wowwww that's gorgeous. This is gonna make a great companion to pink on navy <3

kkd_20 · « **Reply #15 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 00:06:36 »

It would be nice if you add accented spacebar. nice color combination. GLWIC

stidal · « **Reply #16 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 00:15:55 »

sax moment

doggo1dance · « **Reply #17 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 00:22:36 »

Quote from: wanf on Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:54:17

looks an awful lot like black lotus with the modifiers kit

no.

Hakatype · « **Reply #18 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 00:45:18 »

Quote from: zhol on Mon, 25 October 2021, 21:09:27

me likey

I likey as well

ADPenrose · « **Reply #19 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 00:48:39 »

Think I''ll hace to sell a kidney or two 'cause good god it looks great.

Dyto69 · « **Reply #20 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 01:22:11 »

Something on black just can't look bad. I really like the Base kit, I hope your pricing is going to be good. GLWIC

DrSocha · « **Reply #21 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 01:43:51 »

Love it, icon mods would be ideal, but since purple is my favorite it's very tempting. Lilac pattern mat and aluminum/brass artisan collab would be a nice addition as well, GL.

VXQN · « **Reply #22 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 03:54:55 »

Please include a 1U spacebar to go with the two 3Us.

mr_foggy · « **Reply #23 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 05:41:14 »

cool but not a fan of the alpha-only child kits. I'd pick up the katakanas if it was a full fledged base kit, like GMK Dualshot and DMG R3 just did. please consider it.

Hyphen · « **Reply #24 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 11:39:48 »

I love this! I asked in the IC, but as a Mac user who uses WKL, could there perhaps be a 1.5u super/code key in the base set? Or perhaps an icon mods kit or specific mac os kit?

Rik.caffeinated · « **Reply #25 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 20:27:03 »

Really love this set especially the accent key colors.

Yuinth · « **Reply #26 on:** Tue, 26 October 2021, 21:49:00 »

Love the colors, will there be accent spacebars?

GLWIC

Sax_______ · « **Reply #27 on:** Wed, 27 October 2021, 00:25:18 »

Upated OP with South Korea, Canda, Oceania, and Japan vendors for the set

Also thank you everyone for the feedback, I'll be sure to look into some changes based on all of it in the coming days.

VoodooBear · « **Reply #28 on:** Wed, 27 October 2021, 03:43:15 »

I love FAT base kits. Good job. But add Ñ pls.

novelflyer · « **Reply #29 on:** Wed, 27 October 2021, 23:13:21 »

Simple and good looking set

kiwoli · « **Reply #30 on:** Thu, 28 October 2021, 00:09:17 »

Looks great, hopefully base kit pricing is killer.

jagger27 · « **Reply #31 on:** Fri, 29 October 2021, 14:37:22 »

no 1.5u supers, no buy

I do have to commend you for not putting some garbage half-assed line art novelties up in this IC.

Sax_______ · « **Reply #32 on:** Fri, 29 October 2021, 22:18:49 »

Hello everyone!

Thanks so much for the feedback you've given over the past few days.

Based on this feedback I added a new question to the IC form, if you could fill it in again I would really appreciate it.

grayboards · « **Reply #33 on:** Sat, 30 October 2021, 02:02:04 »

loving the vaporwave-y look with the hiragana

codog · « **Reply #34 on:** Sat, 30 October 2021, 10:54:10 »

Zionstudios? ewww

brunosan_. · « **Reply #35 on:** Sat, 30 October 2021, 12:28:21 »

This colors match perfectly, can't go wrong with black. GLWIC

Rik.caffeinated · « **Reply #36 on:** Sat, 30 October 2021, 17:08:58 »

Quote from: Sax_______ on Fri, 29 October 2021, 22:18:49

Hello everyone!

Thanks so much for the feedback you've given over the past few days.

Based on this feedback I added a new question to the IC form, if you could fill it in again I would really appreciate it.

Accent bars would be nice. Not a dealbreaker, but that lilac 7u would look incredibly nice

Sax_______ · « **Reply #37 on:** Sat, 30 October 2021, 17:45:41 »

Quote from: Rik.caffeinated on Sat, 30 October 2021, 17:08:58

Quote from: Sax_______ on Fri, 29 October 2021, 22:18:49
Hello everyone!

Thanks so much for the feedback you've given over the past few days.

Based on this feedback I added a new question to the IC form, if you could fill it in again I would really appreciate it.

Accent bars would be nice. Not a dealbreaker, but that lilac 7u would look incredibly nice

Accent space bars are one of the already planned changes

XiXora · « **Reply #38 on:** Sat, 30 October 2021, 19:03:03 »

Nice but will need 1.5U Supers (+1u alt)

Sax_______ · « **Reply #39 on:** Sat, 30 October 2021, 19:11:18 »

Quote from: XiXora on Sat, 30 October 2021, 19:03:03

Nice but will need 1.5U Supers (+1u alt)

1u alt is there right under the ISO enter.

Sax_______ · « **Reply #40 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 03:15:50 »

Hello again everyone.

Based on the feedback received in the past couple of days I have made some slight changes to kitting.

Updates:

-Dropped the Mono Katakana kit. Unfortunately running two alt alphas kits would very likely result in one not reaching MOQ, and the Mono Katakana set just wasn't popular enough to risk keeping it.
-Added NorDeUK kit to further increase compatibility, one of the main goals for this set was to have as much compatibility with as few kits as possible, the base kit will maintain basic ISO support.
-Added a Row 2 escape key for the basic 40s support.
-Revamped the Space Bar kit, removed the unnecessary 1.75u space bars as well as 1 of the 1.25u space bars, added a 1u space bar and Accent color 6.25u and 7.00u space bars, also removed the non centered 6.00u space bar as it was not necessary.

UPDATE:

~~I am aware of the double accented arrows will fix ASAP~~ accent arrows fixed

Bachoo · « **Reply #41 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 03:29:54 »

Looking good, unsure about nordeuk kit hitting moq since that has a history of struggling in the past. Nonetheless glwic

kylekwong1 · « **Reply #42 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 04:02:28 »

I would like to see
Two base kits instead of alt alpha
Stepped cap control
Icon mod
Accent spacebar?
Move numpad to its own kit

sup3r170va · « **Reply #43 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 08:05:36 »

Quote from: kylekwong1 on Sun, 31 October 2021, 04:02:28

I would like to see
Two base kits instead of alt alpha
Stepped cap control
Icon mod
Accent spacebar?
Move numpad to its own kit

I second this, especially the (katakana?) sublegend as a second base, as well as icon only mods.

XiXora · « **Reply #44 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 08:42:04 »

Quote from: Sax_______ on Sat, 30 October 2021, 19:11:18

Quote from: XiXora on Sat, 30 October 2021, 19:03:03
Nice but will need 1.5U Supers (+1u alt)

1u alt is there right under the ISO enter.

I am well aware of that. Perhaps, I should have been more clear as I assumed the Super ask would have implied that.

Will need 2x 1U Alts with 2x 1.5U supers.
If NorDeUK is added, will need 1U AltGr too

directheatedtriode · « **Reply #45 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 10:03:31 »

Quote from: kylekwong1 on Sun, 31 October 2021, 04:02:28

I would like to see
Two base kits instead of alt alpha
Stepped cap control
Icon mod
Accent spacebar?
Move numpad to its own kit

Moving numpad to its own kit makes it ~ $50 more expensive for people that want numpad. When I joined GH the only people using numpad were legacy users on old keyboards but now there are a lot of customs that are using it.

Sax_______ · « **Reply #46 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 10:27:37 »

Quote from: directheatedtriode on Sun, 31 October 2021, 10:03:31

Quote from: kylekwong1 on Sun, 31 October 2021, 04:02:28
I would like to see
Two base kits instead of alt alpha
Stepped cap control
Icon mod
Accent spacebar?
Move numpad to its own kit

Moving numpad to its own kit makes it ~ $50 more expensive for people that want numpad. When I joined GH the only people using numpad were legacy users on old keyboards but now there are a lot of customs that are using it.

Pretty much this, having numpad adds basically no cost, moving it to its own kit adds cost for anyone that does want it.

azzipa · « **Reply #47 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 11:08:03 »

would love to see some love for macos users. even an extension kit (which would selfishly get me an R1 "=" key and an R3 1.75u "Function" key). and i'm wondering what happened to the "5" key in numpad?

Quote from: XiXora on Sat, 30 October 2021, 19:03:03

Nice but will need 1.5U Supers (+1u alt)

Cylent · « **Reply #48 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 11:50:42 »

Quick question - why is the 5 on the numpad a \|? also no homing 5?

Sax_______ · « **Reply #49 on:** Sun, 31 October 2021, 12:02:01 »

Quote from: Cylent on Sun, 31 October 2021, 11:50:42

Quick question - why is the 5 on the numpad a \|? also no homing 5?

Thanks for pointing it out, I'll fix it later today.

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