类型: GB
作者:
grundlemere
发布时间:
2020-12-24 11:44:32
更新时间: 2021-07-29 15:49:33
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=110355.0
GMK Shanshui 山水
The long path home.
Collecting final numbers. Thanks to everyone who
joined!
Jagged peaks rise like the teeth of some long-fallen
colossus from the horizon, worn to harmlessness by water,
foliage, and time. A placid thread of water weaves among
them. For ages, the water has borne rafts carrying silent,
wizened men and their gently chattering companions: great,
fearsome waterfowl perched on long bamboo canes. They are
ancient cormorants, eyes smoldering like lanterns. Part
duck, part eagle, part feathered hunting dog, they slip
beneath the currents with hush and speed and return with
throats full of wriggling fish, dutifully disgorging their
catch for a treat and a gentle stroke.
In few places
does man live in such harmony with nature; in few places is
man so noble an animal. For those who have been to the Li
River (Lijiang in Chinese), its unforgettable. For those who
have not, they have surely seen the ghosts of the mountains
and water conjured from memory and ink. Perhaps no other
subject is depicted so often in shanshuihua, the
Chinese style of ink painting perfectly suited to capture
the layered depth of the South China Karst and the
reflections off the tranquil waters of the Lijiang.
Literally mountain-water-painting in the Chinese, these
words are immortalized in the local slogan of this stretch
of the Lijiang between Guilin and Yangshuo: 山水甲天下, the
best landscapes under heaven.
About the set
GMK Shanshui is a white-on-black Cherry profile
keycap set designed to capture both the enduring shanshui
images of the Lijiang and the essence of the uniquely
Chinese artform of shanshuihua, practiced by artists in
China and around the world. Designed by Grundlemere of Fort
Stevens Mercantile, conceived and rendered by NathanAlphaMan
of Alpha Design.
Base keys are molded in GMK stock CR
black, with legends rendered in crisp stock WS1, matching
existing WoB sets and kits, and compatible with other
monochrome Cherry profile keys. The base kit offers
sublegends in Cangjie, while modifiers are rendered in both
Simplified and Traditional Chinese + iconsthe first GMK
legends in true Chinese characters.
See a full gallery of board and scene renders
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updates, and feel free to reach out on Discord at
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Production timeline
Production
estimated at 36 weeks from order placement in February 2021,
expected to ship from manufacturer in Q4 2021.
Updates
December 24: GB posted
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December 29: Production legend kit renders added to Inkstone and Old Path kits
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December 31: All production legend kit renders added
January 1: GB live
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Vendors*
Available from these vendors for group buy January 1, 2021.
US: Cannonkeys
China: Zfrontier/English
SE Asia: iLumkb
Europe: CandyKeys
Oceania: Daily Clack
Canada: Deskhero.ca
UK (non-EU): Prototypist.net -
Kits*
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Inkstone 砚台: the Simplified Chinese base kit*
The Simplified Chinese base kit offers sublegends in the Cangjie Chinese typing system, while modifiers are rendered in Simplified Chinese + iconsthe first GMK legends in true Chinese characters. Designed to cover a wide range of layouts. Included numpad is rendered in Chinese financial numerals as monolegends. Alphas include basic special Chinese punctuation sublegends. -
Old Path 旧路: the Traditional Chinese base kit*
The Traditional Chinese base kit offers sublegends in the Cangjie Chinese typing system, while modifiers are rendered in Traditional Chinese + iconsthe first GMK legends in true Chinese characters. Designed to cover a wide range of layouts. Included numpad is rendered in Chinese financial numerals as monolegends. Alphas include basic special Chinese punctuation sublegends. -
Clear Water 清水: the Cangjie monolegend alphas kit*
A complete alphanumeric kit with Cangjie Chinese character monolegends, and duplicate modifiers and spacebars to assist base kit buyers in covering a second board if desired. Includes both Simplified and Traditional Chinese character alpha supplements and east/south/west/north Chinese character arrow keys. Recommended for compatibility with GMK WoB, Minimal, and other monochrome sets. -
Lijiang 漓江: the novelties kit*
Novelties feature images, real and imagined, of the Li River between Guilin and Yangshuo, China, in Guangxi Province amid the world-famous South China Karst geologic formations. Novelty icons include: -
Nighttime scenes of the local mountain and river landscape (shanshui),
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the famous Moon Hill (a karst mountain with an enormous hole through the base, famed for rock climbing),
the fishing cormorant,
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the ubiquitous phoenix tail bamboo that lines the banks of the Lijiang,
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the traditional lantern hung on the eaves of the winding streets of Yangshuo,
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a vignette of local South China architecture,
alternate BoW Esc/Enter keys in TC and SC.
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Negative Space 留白: the spacebars kit*
Includes non-traditional spacebars and spacekeys, as well as variant WS1 bars for a distinctive touch. -
Pricing*
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Kits* Cannon.keys
(prices in USD) Zfrontier/English
(prices in RMB/USD) iLumkb
(prices in SGD) CandyKeys
(prices in EUR) Prototypist.net
(prices in GBP) Deskhero.ca
(prices in CAD) Daily Clack
(prices in AUD) Inkstone 砚台: the Simplified Chinese base kit (154pcs) $134.99 ¥968/$168 $180 129.99 £119 $177 $178 Old Path 旧路: the Traditional Chinese base kit (154pcs) $134.99 ¥968/$168 $180 129.99 £119 $177 $178 Clear Water 清水: the Cangjie monolegend alphas kit (67pcs) $79.99 ¥544/$88 $106.50 75 £69 $105 $105 Lijiang 漓江: the novelties kit (23pcs) $44.99 ¥302/$49 $60 42 £39 $59 $59 Negative Space 留白: the spacebars kit (13pcs) $27.99 ¥184/$31 $37 28 £25 $37 $37 -
Hand-worked Legends*
The original kit legends were rendered in Noto Sans SC and TC Bold 500, an open-source font that I found clean and to be a close match to the GMK standard Latin font. However, GMK specs require a certain degree of rounded corners, stroke width, negative space between strokes, and, most significantly, a relatively large minimum size of any interior negative space within a figure. I spent most of November completely overhauling the legends to meet the specs: adding cutaways to minute interior spaces, broadening strokes, narrowing and straightening negative space, rounding corners, and in a few cases where it was unavoidable, simplifying elements altogether.
This represents my best efforts to adhere to the integrity of the written Chinese language and to create a consistent typography that will serve not only this set but all sets that will use these legends to come. These legends are essentially as detailed as GMK’s machining will allow while maintaining consistent character size with conventional mod and alpha legend sizing. I hope you are as pleased with how they’ve turned out as I am, and I’m pleased to present them in the base kits and will add all kit renders before the group buy begins. Please note that while we plan to add three keyboard renders using these hand-adjusted production legends, most of the boards we rendered used the concept legends as they were created before the GMK review and retooling. If you see a discrepancy in the legend shape, or are curious which ones will appear in the final product, please visually match them with the image below or just ask.
Special thanks to A.Jakkkke for his final review of the character forms and his extremely helpful suggestions.
Here’s a link to download a full-size image and see all the detail -
Keyboard renders*
See a full gallery of keyboard renders -
Collaborations*
Luxe Cables is offering a themed Shanshui aviator cable all month, with delicately inked white paracord and branded aviator connectors in inkstone or black. Group buy goes live at noon CST January 1.
Digital Carpentry is offering GMK Shanshui branded custom wood wrist rests tailored to your keyboard in a range of rare woods, with or without resin infill, with many split layout options available. Orders already rolling in, get yours in early! -
Digital Carpentry* for custom branded rare wood wrist rests
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Luxe Cables* for a set-matched aviator cable
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RAMA WORKS* for metal artisan keycaps
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Salvun* for artisan keycaps in bronze
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Latrialum* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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DE∆Gcaps* for a collab artisan keycap in resin
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Sodie Caps* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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Destroyer Caps* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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Bludgeoned Kaps* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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Rascal Caps* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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Frumpzkeys* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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Fraktal Kaps* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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Rejeck Kaps* for collab artisan keycaps in resin
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Froue Loop* for a collab multimedia artisan keycap
If youre a maker or artisan, Id love to work with you to develop an exclusive collaboration for GMK Shanshui or a future set. Please get in touch! -
RAMA WORKS artisan keycaps*
All three GMK Shanshui x RAMA artisans
The Shan cap, in anodized black aluminum and white enamel fill, with the character 山 (mountain) in ancient Liushutong script - RRP $38 USD
The Shui cap, in e-white aluminum and black enamel fill, with the character 水 (water) in Liushutong script - RRP $43 USD
The Chop cap, rendered in deep red enamel on black PVD brass, displaying my adopted Chinese surname 魏 in a yin seal script imprint with a slight off-axis tilt. - RRP $58 USD -
Deskmats*
Rafts 钓鱼筏 deskmat: An ink painting of traditional fishing rafts afloat on the Li River beneath the leaning phoenix tail bamboo, emblazoned with the Shanshui logo chop at bottom left. Based on artwork by Baoyan.
Karst 岩溶 deskmat: an ink painting of the South China Karst seen through the mist with the inscription, “best scenery under heaven” (山水甲天下), an unofficial local slogan of the Li River area. No seal for users who prefer a completely monochrome look. Based on artwork by Elina Li. -
Relationship to GMK Houhai*
GMK Shanshui is the predecessor set to GMK Houhai, enabling the molds for Houhai, a far more complicated and prohibitively expensive set, to be produced using stock colors at an attractive price point. In the wise words of one vendor with far better business sense than most designers, you can have 80+ new molds, or you can have seven custom RAL colors, but you cant have both. Hence, the long path home.
If you are a Houhai supporter, the best way you can help make that set possible is to support this set, and to let our existing vendors know that you want GMK Houhai to follow shortly on the heels of GMK Shanshui. -
Sharing the Cangjie legends*
Designers interested in using the Chinese-language legends weve created are welcome and encouraged to reach out for design files to use in their renders, free of charge.
This is likely my last set design to use Chinese character legendsI dont want to get typecast as the Chinese keycap guy! But I hope that other designers will take up the mantle and use these legends to produce beautiful work, as others have with Hiragana and Hangul legend designs. -
Acknowledgements*
This design goes to the great people of China, the Chinese-speaking world, and the Chinese diaspora, who contribute so much to our community through their creativity, passion, knowledge, and work. You changed my life and Ill never be the same. Also, -
NathanAlphaMan* for the incredible collaborative partnership, the initial idea to do Houhai as a WoB set, the gorgeous renders, and the critical feedback
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Michael at Digital Carpentry*, for being my first partner, my biggest sounding board, and my unrelenting critic
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Exclusive*, for the cultural translation help and his friendship
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Alex*, for the kernel of the idea of what Shanshui would become
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Upas*, for taking a chance on this set, and his important advice
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Louis*, for his kindness, his passion for my work, and his partnership
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Jae*, for his honesty and sense, and for the use of his beautiful J-01 and J-02 models
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LBaron and the S+R team*, for making their gorgeous Iron165 and Iron180 models available
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A.Jakkkke* for helping me make this set as good as it can be.
Thanks for reading this far and thank you for your feedback.
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