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【IC】GMK 9009 R3 - Launching September 1st

类型: IC
作者: janglad
发布时间: 2019-07-17 17:04:58
更新时间: 2019-09-01 04:09:06
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=101623.0


Hello everybody
It’s time to bring back one of the classics of this community, GMK 9009. When Dixie and I launched the GB for GMK 9009 R2 back in 2017, it broke records. 2 years and a lot of rerun requests later, we figured the time had come to go back to our roots.

Design
Inspiration

As some of you may know GMK 9009 is inspired by the Cherry board designed for Reuters. This board featured the now-famous combination of classic beige with some muted, pastel accents. Over the years this colourway has gained a lot of popularity in this hobby for its classic looks and its great versatility. It really is hard to find a case colour that doesn’t go well with this set. GMK 9009 R3, of course, keeps those timeless looks and adds some new features to it.
Updates

9009 R3 adds some features previous rounds haven’t had. Most notably, a R5 bottom row. This bottom row creates a nicer and more full sculpt which gives the pleasant vintage aesthetic 9009 is all about. We’ve also added a lot of compatibility and fixed some legends, all of which is described in detail below.
Kit design
Standard

This kit supports all the most popular custom keyboard layouts from standard TKLs to 65%, WKL bottom rows, HHKBs and more.
Obscure

The obscure kit adds support for a wide variety of 40% keyboards, including ortholinear ones. Included are the necessary modifiers, but also spacebars. This kit also includes a second b key for split keyboards.
Numbers

The number kits adds support for boards including a numpad, like a full-size 104 or 1800.
Addition

The addition kit adds keys for an OSX focussed bottom row, 60%s with arrows through the 2u shift, 660 layouts with the extra 2.25u shift, full ISO UK support and some options for different legends in the 65% and caps lock area.
Modern

Want to add a modern look to your set? Or maybe you’re just a fan of the uniform look having only icons on the modifiers gives you? Then this kit is for you! It features icon modifiers for all of the bottom row, escape and 1.75 control while also adding a more modern interpretation of the tab key and caps lock. This kit features a more modern R4 bottom row.
Aesthetic

This kit is made for those of you who want to add a splash of colour to your boards, whether that is with coloured spacebars or with an indicator LED under your lock keys.
Reworked legends
Modifiers

Dixie and I have been working on cleaning up the mod legends for GMK for a long time now. Cherry legends have some weird inconsistent alignments, 
if you use icon mods with bottom row text mods like R2 9009 you will notice that the Tab, Enter, Backspace and bottom row legends are left-centred aligned. However, the Shift and Caps Lock legends are top-left aligned. Same outcome if you use all icon mods, like in GMK Modern Dolch. This is especially annoying when you use a 1.75u shift with an fn key next to it since one legend will be top-aligned and the other centred.
Because of this, we have decided to make new legends to create a more uniform look among the modifier keys.

 We also have taken the above changes and applied them to the arrows, to continue to make everything as consistent as possible across your keyboard.
40’s / Ortho Enter Awkward Arrows

If you compare the Enter arrow on a full-sized enter and the smaller sized Enters, you will notice the smaller keys are a little awkward. The vertical line on the enter icon, goes almost all the way to the top edge of the surface of the cap, unlike its full-sized counterpart. We are going to fix these legends to be more proportional when sized down compared to the full-sized.
The group buy
The group buy for this will launch on September first. More pricing info will follow later, but the standard kit will be sold for $99.99 from day one (or your local currency/tax included equivalent). No waiting until 500 MOQ is hit! The set will be sold by these amazing vendors:

  • DailyClack for Oceania

  • Dixiemech for the US

  • Mykeyboard for Europe

  • iLumkb for Asia
    Render gallery
    Bauer by Dixiemech



    910 RE by TGR


    Dharma by me and Ye_Cole (soon™)


    No2 Rev 1 by Keycult


    Kotai by /u/stewiedk97


    M60-A by RAMA


    U80 by RAMA


    Xeno by IonKB


    Special thanks to

  • All vendors for working with me to bring this project to reality, and especially Dixiemech for all the help as always :)

  • Hineybush for helping me out with R5 files

  • Lightning for convincing us to go for a R5 bottom row

  • Otani’s squirrels
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