Hi quality, low cost PBT keycap set PSA

want the teal space and arrows from this set; i hope these ali sellers make smaller sets. sometimes the mods on a given clone are all i need :slight_smile:

agreed, i wish they’d do BoW or WoB; epbt WoB is underwhelming. and i loved the OEM caps on my Durgod K310 so I’m sure their Cherry sets should be as good if not better quality.

budget serika but only with katakana (?) alphas. i want that too, but i’d only harvest the mods, heh.

the wob set i have sounds really thin compared to leopold pbt. they have a high pitched clinking sound when it’s in a pile; idk. i’m a mac user as well. affordable sets with Cmd or Opt seem to be impossible for now bc it always seems to be a low priority (or even making more neutral mods like Code, Meta, or the diamond symbol.) either we shell out for them, or get terrible add-on keys in white, gray or black that don’t even color match (and or are side print only.)

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yeah i’m glad someone else relates! even having “win” I am fine with, someone in a discord once told me to just think of it as an affirmation instead of an operating system, but from a design perspective i just feel like the windows logo on keysets feels so dated on otherwise super clean layouts and colorways.

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bruh…thats really pushing the lemonade outta lemons angle re: "win"ning LMAO. gmk win key is about as “retro” as i can go; it’s better when the win logo is smaller and off-center.

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TBH I’m not sold on these.

The legends look like they could easily become inconsistent or crooked due to QC issues. I’ve seen that happen when the cheaper AliExpress sets try to push their limits. Surface texture probably won’t be like GMK or ePBT either.

I’m sure it would be okay for a beater build, put it on a white XD87 or something. But I suspect there may be better ways to use $40+ on keycaps.

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I posted some photos of the Accent Keys in the mail thread:

Full link here

I think these are really great. They’re individually wrapped, for some reason, which is great because it will prevent dust and fingerprints.

They arrived really quick. The surface texture is good, reminds me of my ePBT 9009 R4 set from late 2018.

Maybe these are made on KBDFans old tooling? I heard they are making new molds.

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Based on the color and texture, the remind me of the Treecaps Drop ran a while back. I’m wondering if they are from the same manufacturer:

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Also, it looks like Drop is working on expanding their color-way offerings. kunalkumar is polling the community to see what they’d like to see in the future. Looks like black-on-black might be a possibility as well as RGB and cyan mod kits, yay!

I swear I’m not trying to shill for Drop LOL, but it seems like there’s some interest in this topic.

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Haha, yes, I was just thinking about TreeCaps.

The colour is certainly similar.

Now I really regret not getting any. Because they could have been used with these accents.

Also, if they are looking for ideas, maybe they could draw some inspiration from ePBT Slate.

lol, those baggies. I remember getting extras of Godspeed MT3 and each cap came in a baggie. I had like 60 baggies. I kept them all and I do, in fact, use them to store springs!

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:slight_smile: Dev tty Round 1 kits also had baggies for each key. I still have a bag full of baggies :))

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I’m sure the smoothness of these was mentioned on this thread, but holy hell are they slick. I got a set of the blue accents to go with a ePBT Grayscale set and noticed how much smoother than ePBT they were (which I find to be really silky to the touch). Honestly, I’m not sure if I could type on a full set. The Dye-sub is great though and the color is vibrant so no complaints in those departments.

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Yes, that’s a good point.

They really are abnormally smooth, to the point where I doubt they are actually made from ePBT tooling. That was kind of a wild speculation.

Plus, I haven’t done any measurements, and these are probably thinner than ePBT.

It remains to be seen if I can actually type on them. I’m curious. I ordered the Vintage set, so we’ll see!

I’ve been using the set for a couple of weeks now and I actually prefer the smoothness to that of an ePBT keyset. They provide enough grip for my fingers.

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I just purchased HK Gaming Canvas:

The surface texture of these keycaps is similar to the teal / blue accent keys I posted earlier,

As others have said, although there is smoothness like some ePBT sets, it’s actually smoother, and may be too smooth.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to mount these on anything. The Artifact Bloom “Vintage” set is likely to be similar, and may even be from the same manufacturer as HK Gaming.

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The “smoothness” you mention remind me a lot of the keycaps that come with the Tokyo60.

This photo album is all I think of now when people mention HK Gaming

https://imgur.com/a/bZoe4XR#I6muMFc

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:eyes::exclamation:

These hk gaming guys seem like swell people, let’s give em a chance :^)

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