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Offline decarabia

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1300 on: Fri, 20 January 2023, 15:04:10 »
i want to try my hand at design, but for some reason i feel lost as to where to even begin (or i could be getting way ahead of myself when i dont even have a rough draft yet)
there are a couple of things i'm wondering about regardless, so if anyone has answers or insight i'd appreciate it a lot
  • would pmk's templates be useable with other manus, should i get to that point? i want to have cuneiform sublegends, so kle definitely doesn't have support for that really works as long as it's a unicode char wao why did i not realize that sooner. i'm thinking it'd also be pretty useful when it comes to novelties too
  • is metallic-looking plastic possible? what sort of colour codes or specifications should i be looking into if i want to achieve that?
  • assuming a gb goes through and moqs are hit, do designer(s) at least break even? including pre-ic and prototyping costs

fiddled around in kle for a bit since posting, modelled after gilgamesh. i personally find yellow (and in extension, gold) incredibly hard to work with as a main colour, and i was thinking a bit about how neat metallic legends would look, hence the question above, but maybe red is fine too? it's certainly one of gil's secondary image colours
tho i didnt put too much thought into the sublegends other than the numbers since i'm no historian and i dont know a lick of sumerian/akkadian aha
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Offline monstermandude

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1301 on: Fri, 04 August 2023, 15:08:40 »
i want to try my hand at design, but for some reason i feel lost as to where to even begin (or i could be getting way ahead of myself when i dont even have a rough draft yet)
there are a couple of things i'm wondering about regardless, so if anyone has answers or insight i'd appreciate it a lot
  • would pmk's templates be useable with other manus, should i get to that point? i want to have cuneiform sublegends, so kle definitely doesn't have support for that really works as long as it's a unicode char wao why did i not realize that sooner. i'm thinking it'd also be pretty useful when it comes to novelties too
  • is metallic-looking plastic possible? what sort of colour codes or specifications should i be looking into if i want to achieve that?
  • assuming a gb goes through and moqs are hit, do designer(s) at least break even? including pre-ic and prototyping costs

fiddled around in kle for a bit since posting, modelled after gilgamesh. i personally find yellow (and in extension, gold) incredibly hard to work with as a main colour, and i was thinking a bit about how neat metallic legends would look, hence the question above, but maybe red is fine too? it's certainly one of gil's secondary image colours
tho i didnt put too much thought into the sublegends other than the numbers since i'm no historian and i dont know a lick of sumerian/akkadian aha
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Hahaha this is super cool and also coincidental because I decided to start looking around the keycaps section of the geekhack forums to look at making cutsom keycaps with Cuneiform sublegends just like you're talking about now, although I was going for a bit of an easier alphabet of the Archaemenid Empire of 5th century BC Persia since they only have 36 symbols in their alphabet and are less complex in form. I was thinking a similar layout and some ancient armor and the symbol of the Archaemenid Empire for the novelty keys. I am still stuck on color though but I am interested in doing something like the colors of clothing commonly worn during that era.

glwkc!

Offline NingWang

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1302 on: Mon, 25 September 2023, 21:38:05 »
What about a Halloween themed keycap set? Then maybe a pumpkin artisan on top of that.
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Offline dipincoke

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1303 on: Fri, 06 October 2023, 09:43:55 »
nice color

Offline EchoKeys

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1304 on: Sat, 07 October 2023, 13:31:44 »
This purple keycap looks great
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Offline dipincoke

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1305 on: Fri, 20 October 2023, 06:15:34 »
i want to create carbon fiber keycap with motif similar to carbon fiber cloth. I dont know why haha  ;D but i love that theme. Also how about beehive theme ? that sound amazing to me. Tell me what you think
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Offline KeyGeak

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1306 on: Sun, 29 October 2023, 21:49:38 »
What about a Halloween themed keycap set? Then maybe a pumpkin artisan on top of that.
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Offline KeyGeak

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1307 on: Sun, 29 October 2023, 22:24:56 »
Tomorrow is Halloween night, I think it's time to show my Halloween keycaps
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Offline NingWang

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1308 on: Mon, 30 October 2023, 00:22:41 »
What about a Halloween themed keycap set? Then maybe a pumpkin artisan on top of that.
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Yes indeed, you got a cool halloween set as well btw :))

Offline Exquite

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Re: Custom Keycap Ideas Thread - all ideas welcome
« Reply #1309 on: Sat, 11 November 2023, 19:20:34 »
I want some more colorful keycaps made by big brands such as GMK and SP.
I'm a Color lover and a designer.