Does anyone know if they get in the way of the light shining through? Looking to put some on an LED board but don't want to get them if it is just going to ruin the LED effect. Anyone have any experience?
You guessed right, they do get in the way. I don't recommend landing pads if your keyboards has backlighting.
O-rings will interfere less with backlighting, but it will still be visible.
Soft landing pads make no difference in light at all. I used them on my pink backlit pure for the entire time I had it. Not sure where you got your information from.
Where I got my information from? A hippo told me a tiger had seen an elephant who told him that...
Seriously: I use landing pads (soft and firm) or O-rings in all my keyboards, so I know a little bit about them.
I have at least 3 backlight keyboards in which I have tried both: 2 Pure Pro and one Poker 2. All have white backlighting.
The landing pads have a tendency to rotate on the key stems, and depending on how they end up, some keys will be more obscured than others.
It is possible to avoid the problem partially by cutting the corners of the landing pads.
With landing pad or O-rings, you may not notice any adverse effect on your keyboard, it all depends on the position of the LEDs and the path the light follows inside the keycap.
As a general rule, however, I would expect landing pads and even O-rings to interfere with backlighting. You can't just bet there will be no interference, you need to test it.
