Why do most low-end keyboards have the same ugly font on their caps?

[xtrafrood]

There are a few keyboards that have speakers built in for noise purposes. I'm not sure you can reprogram them to use mp3 quality audio though

[saxophone]

My eyes hurt.

You have no style. True game need willfulness to show their attitude. You have already fallen for traditional appearance of the drainage mechanical trend.

[xtrafrood]

My eyes hurt.

You have no style. True game need willfulness to show their attitude. You have already fallen for traditional appearance of the drainage mechanical trend.

That keyboard has fake screws. Fake screws..

[falkentyne]

But then why not use some of the nicer fonts with GPL or GNU free-use licences?

Because most of these companies are in China/Taiwan.

[jcoffin1981]

I forget the name of the process, but some cheap ones use a sort of decal stuck to the keycap.  This style is particularly ugly and I'm sure you  have seen some of these.  You can feel the edge of it with your fingernail.  But I agree there are lots of ugly fonts.  One  that comes to mind is one of  the Cooler Master keyboards, especially the F row has very large white, ugly,  blocky characters.

[kasakka]

Many of the "off brand" keyboards from China seem to have the same hideous caps with an angular font. It's similar to how large majority of men's dress shoes sold in malls etc are downright hideous yet people still buy them. As they still sell they don't have to have a designer who actually understands aesthetics. Just pick a "cool" font and roll with it.

I really have no idea who started the whole "gamer" look with red/black or green/black. Most of it looks tacky as hell and nowadays it's actually getting hard to avoid that look. I recently bought a new ASUS motherboard and had to take the "gaming" variant since it had the right feature set for me.

[jcoffin1981]

I don't think the fonts on the Poker 3 are ugly at all.