[IC] KKB Cobalt - US/UK/FR/DE base kits!

[The Switch Journal]

Hello everyone! I would like to introduce to you this little project I've been working on for the past 6 months.


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● Intro ●

Hi everyone! Here is KKB Cobalt, my first keycap project. I have set out to release a set of keycaps because of the frustration I had seeing so many beautiful sets releasing (more specifically made of quality ABS) - but none in my local layout which I love, so I ended up asking myself "why not giving it a try?" and here we are. Of course, it doesn't mean that I'm not gonna support other layouts!
For the design I wanted to do something sober but with a slight flair, being inspired by GMK Blanc sur Noir I really wanted to see how the tulips would look on a deep blue set of keycaps, and boy I wasn't disappointed. Of course I got the ok from BsN's designer so no worries.


● Kitting ●

Base kits



Child kits




Alert Row kits



RAL Colors




● Vendors ●

EU/FR: DeltaKeyCo
EU/DE: Monacokeys
US: Divinikey
UK: Proto[Typist]
AU: KeebzNCables
CN: Keykobo
KR: Geon
Global: Unikeys


● Details ●

Manufactured by Keykobo
ABS double-shot keycaps
Novelties (including “NoFR/DE NoBUY”) as well as tulip keys are going to be UV printed

Price: expected under 100€ VAT included for FR and DE base kits, under $90 USD for US + UK base kit (expect the usual KKB prices)
MOQ: 350 total between the 3 base kits (combined)

GB date: TBD (hoping before the end of 2026)

Novelties made by EricSky - Thank you for everything you’ve done for me my friend.


● Collabs ●

If anyone is interested into making any kind of collab like an artisan, a deskmat, a cable, anything, here are my contact infos:
Email: theswitchjournal@gmail.com
Discord: @aurorepoke


● Additional renders ●





● IRL sample pics ●

[The Switch Journal]

Reserved.

[HoffmanMyster]

Approval bump

[Celty]

That's obviously a big yes!

[MartinThePolarBear]

Yes

[rob2kx]

That blue *chef's kiss*

Love that it doesn't just use the basic accent layout too.

[newzealot]

The Novelties bottom row 2.25U and 2.75U are for shift keys or spacebars?
Could you swap their places, as normally the 2.25U is on the left and 2.75u is on the right.
Or if you could do a render with them, it would be even better (Alice if they are spacebars)

[IBMweMissU]

Love the colors, how about adding shine through CapsLock, NumLock? KKB sets usually offer them

[Eragon_Brisingr]

Love the set and the compatibility ! So hyped to see the GB, vendors are amazing !

[d3smo]

ISO/FR double Shot ABS ? You say the words it's an instant YES 

[Bagri]

GLWIC 

[Plaketdebeur]

Nice project, GLWIC

[The Switch Journal]

The Novelties bottom row 2.25U and 2.75U are for shift keys or spacebars?
Could you swap their places, as normally the 2.25U is on the left and 2.75u is on the right.
Or if you could do a render with them, it would be even better (Alice if they are spacebars)

They are for the shifts, and sure I can do that!

Love the colors, how about adding shine through CapsLock, NumLock? KKB sets usually offer them

I'm a bit afraid that it would push the price over 100€ for us in EU, an alternative might be to replace the R3 controls with the shine-through caps lock if that's something you guys would prefer?
I'll look into it and see what I can do, maybe I'm worried for nothing and I can just add them.

[inviz]

Give it to me!

[pixelpusher]

I like the color, but I'm confused.  I wouldn't consider that to be Cobalt blue.  It looks like the deep navy used in GMK Rudy to me.  When I hear cobalt I think of a brighter, more vibrant color.  Maybe this is a deep cobalt?  Also confusing because there is a GMK Cobalt but this has nothing to do with it.

[The Switch Journal]

I like the color, but I'm just confused.  I wouldn't consider that to be Cobalt blue.  It looks like the deep navy used in GMK Rudy to me.  When I hear cobalt I think of a brighter, more vibrant color.  Maybe this is a deep cobalt?  Also confusing because there is a GMK Cobalt but this has nothing to do with it.

That's how RAL named the color I'm using, so I just went with it, thought a gem theme would be nice so "cobalt" fitted pretty well into it
If you google "cobalt blue" you can find a bit of every tone of blue tbh.
Rudy's blue uses RAL 5003, which is indeed pretty close to the RAL 5013 I'm using, just a smidge lighter/less saturated (well, depending on how the designer color-matched it there could be a bigger difference, unfortunately I don't have it to compare).