Hi everyone, we've decided to move ahead with the production as a community, and after most of the feedback in this thread.
We are aware that it is a few shades lighter than we initially wanted, but delaying the production for something that isn't guaranteed isn't a risk we want to take. Gateron can't match perfectly like for example GMK would be able to, and we are actually happy with the switch.
The switch feels and sounds good, and honestly, Sweden aside, it looks quite good. Everyone who received samples relayed back that they look better in person than what they expected from my initial photos, so that's good too.
It portrays Sweden quite well as is, we are happy with it.
To anyone who wanted something exactly as the render, we as a community offer our sincerest apologies, but we don't think we will be able to get it much more accurate. Gateron already tried to match the pantone, so us relaying back "just make it darker" might make it more worse in the end. It is nice, I hope you will all like it!
One person that got a sample noticed the blues are just a tiiiiiiiiiny bit different between top and bottom, and tried it in UV light:
We have no idea why the bottom specifically reacts to UV, but I will ask Gateron about it. I spoke to some people and a reason COULD be that gateron uses a slightly different nylon composition for bottoms with some very fine powder in order to make the bottoms more smooth. We will test with some other switches and hope Gateron has an answer for it.
TL;DR - PRODUCTION TIME!