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Offline dbme

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Half-height keycaps?
« on: Mon, 23 June 2014, 10:35:18 »
I love the half-width keys used for the directions and function buttons on compact Mac keyboards.



Are there mechanical keyboards that use them?
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Offline Frenir

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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 23 June 2014, 10:40:43 »
Not to my knowledge, no.
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Offline HPE1000

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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 23 June 2014, 11:15:29 »
Alps keyboards can have half height keys
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Offline HipsterPunks

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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 23 June 2014, 12:06:14 »
Quote from: HPE1000 on Mon, 23 June 2014, 11:15:29
Alps keyboards can have half height keys

HPE is correct some alps boards use them
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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 23 June 2014, 12:07:52 »
Quote from: HipsterPunks on Mon, 23 June 2014, 12:06:14
Quote from: HPE1000 on Mon, 23 June 2014, 11:15:29
Alps keyboards can have half height keys

HPE is correct some alps boards use them
Show Image


what's that first board?
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 23 June 2014, 19:41:37 »
There are some MX caps like that too...

pretty sure SP made them.
Though, you can't have them right on top of each other like on a rubberdomes as the switch still needs a minimum distance from each other.
« Last Edit: Mon, 23 June 2014, 19:43:19 by IvanIvanovich »
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Offline Zeal

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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 23 June 2014, 19:48:12 »
Appears to be from the same keyboard that Ivan linked. Except the other 1x keys have crossbar and don't look like DCS profile.
« Last Edit: Mon, 23 June 2014, 19:56:53 by Zeal »
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Offline okwchin

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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 24 June 2014, 10:38:25 »
The limitation likely being the size of the switch. MX switches are what they are, and maybe there are no commercially available MX series switches in a smaller dimension? I am providing an educated guess here, and have not researched it further.

The narrow switches pictured could still have full size switches inside, as the buttons have at least a full space width apart anyway.
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Offline Moosecraft

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Re: Half-height keycaps?
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 24 June 2014, 11:00:29 »
DSA profile are quite low but are not sculpted.
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