I’m hoping it will be better than that, but it’s good to be skeptical on these new blends of ABS and PBT that CXA and RAMA CAPS are using. Are the blends the best of both or the worst? Really remains to be seen until people have had them in daily use for a few months to a couple years.
Are there any photos of the keycaps mounted and shot from the side for us to review the sculpt?
It looks identical to KAT to me. Maybe the dish does a tad deeper… 
Found a Twitch stream that includes a side profile diagram! It should start right when the side profile schematic is on screen, but just in case, it appears at the 3h mark.
(edit: forum didn’t like the Twitch embed so switched to a text link)
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If you go back a little further in the video (2:58:00ish), he shows a close up of the side profile:
They look more square than ADA to my eye. I am hoping Cannonkeys wouldn’t sell any keycaps that were lasered and might fade.
In the twitch video, they appear to be double shot and sculpted, which ADA is not.
That’s how domikey does their space bars for their Cherry profile sets.
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That could remove the need for flipped spacebar.
Interesting. Never noticed that on those sets before, but the CXA one is very similar.
It does seem like the goal with this design. I don’t love the look, but may be more comfortable to type on long-term.
For those interested in a comparison:
We hope to have these in stock soon at CannonKeys - certainly before Chinese New Year.
I’ve been using a sample set as a daily driver for about a week now, and have quite liked it, but as with most things in keyboards, it all comes down to personal preference.
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I can also confirm that the keycaps are indeed doubleshot.
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I had a pre-built a while back that came with a spacebar not too unlike this - the smoothing was less obvious but same theory, with the middle having the most rounding, slowly sharpening into a rounded corner at the ends. It’s not a good looking set (first round of caps that came on the Anne Pro 2), but man did I enjoy using that spacebar - only one I never felt the need to flip, and it’s because that harsh corner just isn’t there.
I’ll have to keep my eye on this one… since HSA apparently never actually happened and OSA is… iffy… well, maybe these folks will nail it!
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Yeah I was thinking that too. Space bar might be the secret sauce of this set. You wouldn’t need to flip it, it might help with sound too.
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Thanks for posting this! Really helpful to see it in context.
Would you be able to provide any information on how you expect the mixed ABS/PBT keycaps to wear? Is there still the expected shine you expect from ABS keycaps or does it skew more to PBT’s durability/texture?
Throwing DSS in the mix, since it’s a lower profile sculpted spherical set.
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Thanks for the heads-up, @NeroAE - welcome! Definitely keen to check these out.
Heh, the “I” key is upside-down in this one:
Lends to it being a real photo, I’d say. 
Edit: Homing dots… hm. Well at least they aren’t in the center of the cap, but dots as the only option does make these a lot less attractive to me. Gotta give props to that spacebar design, though.