Everyone will return to mx (not leaving topre). Just be honest to yourself. Get an mx board and be happy with mx and topre
I have tried a couple of mx boards in store before but I never owned one. I went from apple's chiclets straight to topre and I really really hope to stay where I am for a while -) There are just a lot of other things demanding my wallet's attention right now.
Thanks for the kind words.
Ofcourse i've tested before posting IC, if its possible to replicate the font from scans (despite me having no experience in typefont development). Else i wouldn't do the IC. It costed me stupid amount of time to replicate the font but looking back at proper cherry cyrillics i think it was well worth it. Still unhappy with gorton modified cyrillics. In case GMK Yuri will be succesfull and thus plans go towards SP SA Yuri - i will review and rework gorton modified cyrillics.
The resulting cyrillics are no way perfect (Ы looks very wide next to Ф etc) it's still such a huge improvement over the cherry version, so I don't think anyone can complain. I always wondered why no existing font is being used for this kind of thing though. Aren't there a bunch of free ones out there? And even commercial ones are in the range of $20-$100 per style, which is nothing compared to the overall cost of production.
Its weird to see cyrillics used by people who dont speak russian (or other slavic languages). But the reason is simple: aesthetics. Also that only cyrillics alphas can be easily used as kind of special blanks.
I understand. It's just I had a lot of worries as I was doing research for my keyboard purchase. As a native speaker of russian who did not touch type, my options seemed very limited. There were a lot of nice keyboards and keysets available, but very few from the ones I liked offered the cyrillic legends to make them usable for me.
I chose topre, so in the end I had no choice but to polish my touch typing. Still seeing a beautiful cyrillics keyset, that no native speaker can actually use, seems such a waste and borderline mockery -)