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Offline TyPo.mk

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[IC] PBS Goblin Mode | GB live
« on: Mon, 18 November 2024, 17:39:39 »
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PBS Goblin Mode
A goblin inspired uniform profile PBT set!

The Kits

Everything you'll need in your inventory. PBS being uniform allows this kit to cover the vast majority of keyboards. Note that this set does NOT utilize a full convex bottom row like MV classic- keeping the entire set row agnostic. The custom icons are meant to be a bit whimsical, evoking the idea of magic runes.


An alternate base for halflings and gnomes.


For German goblins

Photos
Sample photos! You may notice some legend errors- these are prototype keys that were made for color accuracy and so I could see the quality of dyesub. Please refer to the above kit image for the current legends, legend sizes, and legend alignment! Example changes- ! and ? were slightly scaled up and the enter novelty is centered based on the goblin itself rather than the entire legend.









Deskmat


Shoutout to Tom for helping with the deskmat <3


WTH is PBS?
A super comfy uniform profile designed by Matt3o. You can read all about it HERE

Vendor List

US: Cannonkeys
UK: Prototypist
EU: MonacoKeys.de
Korea: Swagkeys
China: zFrontier/Keyreative
OCE: Keebz&Cables
SEA: ktechs.store


Estimated price-
Base- 70 USD
40s- 65 USD
Deskmat- 20 USD

Group buy date: April 2025


IC FORM

For updates outside of Geekhack follow my Instagram


Thanks
Captain Sterling for the photos
Ice and Zhao from Keyreative
The team at Cannonkeys
Ray HH Dalio
All my friends :D

« Last Edit: Fri, 04 April 2025, 08:47:45 by TyPo.mk »

Offline SacredMundane

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 18 November 2024, 17:48:11 »
Looks nice! I think you should double up on every bar 2u and under though.


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Offline DirtyGingy

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 18 November 2024, 18:12:24 »
For those that haven't tried PBS, the phrase "super comfy" is an understatement. After using it for a week it made cherry feel uncomfortable by comparison

Offline hali

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 18 November 2024, 18:19:54 »
who up goblin it

Offline Bub

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 18 November 2024, 18:27:21 »
as a fellow goblin myself, this set is a must buy

Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 18 November 2024, 21:21:39 »
Please hurry up and sell this to me, thx

Offline Serenn

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 19 November 2024, 02:35:34 »
Novelties are cute as heck! GLWIC

Granted they're icons so you can just swap them; how come it's win instead of ctrl 1.75u?
Is the singular "ansi pipe" 1.5 win just a catch-all or does it serve a specific purpose? Why not just make 2x 1.5u win in that case so it'll cover hhkb (again, you could always use the ctrl as it's icons but ...)
A mod color kit would be be fun, certainly not a dealbreaker though!
Personally would've skipped light-coloured wasd, but if there's demand/personal choice it's fine
I agree with doubling up on smaller bars

« Last Edit: Tue, 19 November 2024, 03:07:03 by Serenn »

Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 19 November 2024, 05:38:21 »
Novelties are cute as heck! GLWIC

Granted they're icons so you can just swap them; how come it's win instead of ctrl 1.75u?
Is the singular "ansi pipe" 1.5 win just a catch-all or does it serve a specific purpose? Why not just make 2x 1.5u win in that case so it'll cover hhkb (again, you could always use the ctrl as it's icons but ...)
A mod color kit would be be fun, certainly not a dealbreaker though!
Personally would've skipped light-coloured wasd, but if there's demand/personal choice it's fine
I agree with doubling up on smaller bars

Good catch on both of those, the 1.75 should be the other icon and there should be 2 of those 1.5s… got my wires crossed counting the icons there.
Some early feedback I’ve gotten from a couple people is to swap the ctrl and win icons entirely because square looks like windows so that may happen if enough people request it.

The “gamer” wasd is a personal choice (requested by my wife) and won’t affect the retail price. If it turns out I need to cut things they would be the first to go though.

Offline HungHingDaiLo

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 19 November 2024, 08:37:40 »
Goblin Gang Assemble!
Also, GLWIC TY

Offline bigmaxnonions

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 19 November 2024, 08:56:17 »
Would be an insta-buy if there is a novelty enter key that says " RIP Fartbuckle"

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 19 November 2024, 09:13:47 »
love the novelties!

Offline Chippy

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 19 November 2024, 20:14:19 »
Finally, a set for my people.
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This and the swiss cheese keyboard is the next generation of keyboards

Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 20 November 2024, 11:01:00 »
First of all thanks for all the support and thank you everyone who has submitted feedback! I’ve gotten many responses to the form, instagram dms, and discord messages.

First and foremost- I’ve heard you loud and clear 40s folks! I’ll be adding a separate ortho/40s base. It should look very very similar to MV Classics

Second: I’ll definitely be adding more novs!

These were the two most common requests I got

If you requested things like for me to change the theme or profile… no :)

Offline Bobatype

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 26 November 2024, 04:10:45 »
Some early feedback I’ve gotten from a couple people is to swap the ctrl and win icons entirely because square looks like windows so that may happen if enough people request it.
I agree with this. The square block icon is visually heavier due the large dark square, so I would personally prefer it in the Win key position, whereas the triangular symbol feels more balanced in the typical bottom row configuration.
Furthermore the Control key is commonly represented with the ^ Caret symbol which is triangular looking too.

It's always nice to see unique modifier icon legends (and in this case, it makes the whole design a lot cuter). This is subjective, but here's some minor suggestions:
- Function/Menu key legend - make the centre horizontal line dark instead
- Shift legend - make them outline instead of in-fill - seems a little more consistent with the other modifier icon legends if they're in-fill, however I understand why you would choose to keep them in-fill.
- Del icon legend - I find the dark dot placement above the X seems a bit forced. Perhaps remove it, and make 2 of the diagonal line arms darker (either >, or \)
 
I'm not an ISO user, but I think they would be sad if there's no ISO enter novelty.

Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 26 November 2024, 07:26:50 »

- Shift legend - make them outline instead of in-fill - seems a little more consistent with the other modifier icon legends if they're in-fill, however I understand why you would choose to keep them in-fill.

- Del icon legend - I find the dark dot placement above the X seems a bit forced. Perhaps remove it, and make 2 of the diagonal line arms darker (either >, or \)
 
I'm not an ISO user, but I think they would be sad if there's no ISO enter novelty.

Shift: I completely understand this feedback- I polled a large number of my keycap designer friends with rough renders using both filled, outline, and a third option where they were a sort of disconnected outline and almost everyone preferred the filled version 

Del: I probably won’t be changing this unless I get several more requests for it. I did try recoloring 2 arms and it ends up looking a bit like a % or ><

Win/Ctrl: definitely going to swap these and  just to offer both assuming it doesn’t change retail price. Funny the square started out as a carat that I slowly edited and added and rotated, and the current win icon started out as the something inspired by the Mac  clover that I slowly bastardized into this. One of those scenarios where I’ve looked at it so much I needed fresh sets of eyes to point out the similarities.


Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode- Kitting update! New 40s base
« Reply #15 on: Sat, 25 January 2025, 18:59:45 »
Base updated, new 40's base added, GB month added

Offline XiXora

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode- Kitting update! New 40s base
« Reply #16 on: Sun, 26 January 2025, 19:40:21 »
Would have been nice to get ISO accent. Oh well.

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode- Kitting update! New 40s base
« Reply #17 on: Sat, 01 February 2025, 10:35:00 »
Some proxies added, more to come

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode- Kitting update! New 40s base
« Reply #18 on: Tue, 11 February 2025, 23:42:07 »
love the novelties and the details you've done to some of the mod keys too!

Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode- Kitting update! New 40s base
« Reply #19 on: Wed, 19 February 2025, 20:37:05 »
Eu vendor added

Offline vhaarr

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode- Kitting update! New 40s base
« Reply #20 on: Thu, 20 February 2025, 03:00:24 »
Let the Holy Handgrenades rain.
Hammering on an old Happy Hacking Pro 2. Still going strong!

Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode- Kitting update! New 40s base
« Reply #21 on: Sun, 09 March 2025, 12:24:41 »
Eu vendor added

nordeuk pls? :-D

Hello, at vendor request I'll be adding a DE base but not full nordeuk, there just isn't enough demand and additional kits will increases the price of everything unfortunately

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode ~Group buy in April~
« Reply #22 on: Sun, 09 March 2025, 14:49:19 »
I love that your 40's kit has four keycaps for alternative layout support - two blank homing and F & J non-homing.

Could you add this support to the full-size base kit? Alternative layouts are not exclusively used on 40s keyboards.

Oh, and there's an error in the 40s kit picture. It should show barred J, not barred H.

Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode ~Group buy in April~
« Reply #23 on: Mon, 10 March 2025, 09:42:54 »
I love that your 40's kit has four keycaps for alternative layout support - two blank homing and F & J non-homing.

Could you add this support to the full-size base kit? Alternative layouts are not exclusively used on 40s keyboards.

Oh, and there's an error in the 40s kit picture. It should show barred J, not barred H.

Good catch I will fix both and update when I post the German base

Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode 4/4 GB, new German kit and deskmat
« Reply #24 on: Mon, 17 March 2025, 06:44:15 »
Deskmats and German base added

Gb 4/4/2025


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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode 4/4 GB, new German kit and deskmat
« Reply #25 on: Sun, 30 March 2025, 13:13:10 »
Deskmats and German base added

Gb 4/4/2025

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Offline TyPo.mk

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode | GB live
« Reply #26 on: Fri, 04 April 2025, 08:47:55 »
Gb is live

Offline JackQn

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Re: [IC] PBS Goblin Mode | GB live
« Reply #27 on: Fri, 04 April 2025, 17:54:36 »
DeskMat Goblin looks strong, just like me. :cool: