Forcing people to buy uk kitting if you want iso accent key...
This may not be an issue if I just roll the ISO kit in with the other mods and alphas. I was worried two ISO enters in the mods kit was too much for non-ISO users, but also that the UK kit wouldn't be as viable if it were smaller. But not having accent-key parity in the mods kit does stink, as someone who uses ISO.
Please consider a numpad kit and maybe an international kit.
I see you found the numpad! I'd be all onboard with an international kit if it could sell. My concern is that then more languages you add, the pricier it gets, but each buyer is still only using the same handful of keys from it. Putting UK ISO of all languages in was purely selfish on my part, since it's how I roll even as an American, I'll admit. If people are willing to buy an international (I'm assuming NorDeUK?) kit though, I have no objections to offering that.
Also, I feel like the blue accent mods should have the grey legend for contrast, not the arrows yellow
I haven't even thought of that, but I'll do up some comparisons and see how it looks! I don't want to lose too much yellow though on the kits that are designed to bring the color.
As it stands now you seem to be using legends inspired by a variety of Wyse boards, with the return legend enter key from a Wyse ASCII and icon backspace from a WY-85. However, I think this combination of icon + text, text only, and icon only clashes. I would prefer if legends from the Wyse PCE were used instead, which are standard icon + text. The other legends could be offered in the extension kit. I also am personally not a fan of the icon FN key, particularly on a vintage inspired set.
Having seen the prices of recent DCS sets as well as some quotes, I don't think having this many kits is a good idea. I suggest dropping the 40s support and accents from the modifiers kit and moving them to the extension kit, and moving the numpad into the modifiers kit. That way you get a full base kit for a reasonable price. TKL only base kits are really not ideal, the price of the numpad kit as standalone will be very rough with the MOQ that this set would be hitting.
Indeed, I own a WY-85 Gate Array myself and that was my main inspiration, but I took legends from across their full spectrum of boards. I can see the clash being jarring, and I'm open to settling on one standard look for all the mods (probably icon + text). I didn't draw much from the PCE because it felt too normal, if that makes any sense; it doesn't have all of the weird legends and layout quirks, and didn't feel as recognizably "Wyse" when transposed to a modern board, since they can't make use of giant bottom-row modifiers.
I did deliberately change the Fn both to modernize it, but also genericize it, so it could be a "layer" symbol, a hamburger menu icon, Fn, or just an OS-agnostic meta key. Wyse boards didn't really have a ton of bottom-row legends to draw inspiration from. The Win 3.1/95-era menu icon with the pointer and drop-down menu felt busy and too Windows-specific. I want to pay tribute to the original Wyse boards, but I don't want to make an exact replica of them, I do want to modernize some elements to make them more relevant to people who have never even seen a Wyse board.
I went with a lot of kits in part because that's how my previous set wound up. I pitched a frugal monokit to Signature Plastics, and had them come back asking me to break it up into eight kits, add a full 40's kit, and more than double the overall size of it. But that was in SA, and working with SP directly, so I don't think that translates well to this scenario. I expect to combine and cut kits once I get a gauge of their popularity.
Please consider changing “macro” column to relegendables - for XT support.
I'll think about it! I would miss having "real" keys with the classic legends, but want this to work for as many people as possible.
Thank you everyone for the feedback so far! At some point soon I'll go through and standardize the mod legends, do some tests of grey-on-navy, and add in the 6u bar.
