类型: IC
作者:
fatboycarney
发布时间: 2019-10-14 00:47:39
更新时间:
2020-01-13 18:49:17
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=102917.0
Hello Geekhack I would like to introduce you to
launching into Group Buy on January 13th
I
wanted to share these amazing caps that Sodiecaps did for
the GMK Copper Group Buy, more info will be announced during
the group buy
Thanks so much to Sodiecaps for being
amazing to work with and delivering these unbelievable
artisans
Inspiration
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My initial inspiration was coins, I collect coins
including pennies. I love the varying colors you get with
copper pennies, almost no 2 coins look alike.
This made
choosing the right colour for copper a bit of a challenge
but I am extremely happy with the look of the Copper colour
I have decided on.
The second inspiration is Patina If
you aren’t familiar with this I hope you enjoy a basic bit
of chemistry. When Copper ages and is exposed to various
natural elements it can form
a number of chemical
compounds on its surface. The result of the creation of
these compounds is a wide range of almost unbelievable
colours. For this keyset I have taken inspiration from
the
slightly oxidized aged colour of Copper the extremely aged
and unrecognizable look of Oxidized Brown Copper and the
almost luminescence
and likely more common Cyan
Patina
Copper is the perfect fit as inspiration for a
keyset, it allows for a ton of options to represent Copper
and its many looks.
Kits
In an effort to cover as
many boards as possible I have included numpad, physical
ISO, and keys for a basic Ortho/40s in the base kit and have
limited the kits to 3
Base
139.99 USD/ 134 EUR/
195 CDN/ 205 AUD/ (Asia 160 USD/995 RMB)
Novelties
44.99 USD/ 46 EUR/ 63 CDN/ 66 AUD/
(Asia 48 USD/322 RMB)
Spaces
24.99 USD/ 27 EUR/ 35 CDN/ 37 AUD/ (Asia
27 USD/ 178 RMB)
Vendors
US -
Kono
Canada -
DESKHERO
Europe -
MyKeyboard
Oceania -
Daily Clack
Asia -
ZFrontier-EN
ZFrontier - CN
Renders –> Will add more over the next coming
weeks
Iron165 (Smith+Rune)
Austin (driftingbunnies, PheonixStarr and
Gondolindrim)
45-ATS (Abec13)
Deskmats
Salvun Artisan - Copper Keycap with real Patina and sealed
to retain
Colours
I wanted to add a small description
about the colour selection. Originally I had keyed in on the
Pantone Colour “Copper Coin” (
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/18-1537-TPX) as this seemed like a great way to achieve the copper
theme. Using normal non metallic colours to emulate a
metallic look is certainly
difficult and may not work
for everyone. After continuing to look at colours and
stumbling across a Pantone book at work I made the
modification to change to Pantone 7522 C (
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/7522-C) as this offered a lighter solution for the alphas.
Copper
is not only tricky because of its metallic properties but
because of its range in between pink/brown/orange hues. For
the mods after making some initial changes due to
recommendations in the community, I wanted a brown inspired
by some of my sample patina/oxidation images that didn’t
look black but also did look rusty (another great dark
orange set is currently in IC)
I hope that gives some
context and if you dig into some of the hidden sections of
my post you can see that the more chocolaty browns do appear
in oxidized copper.
The colours of GMK Copper
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/7522-C
https://www.ralcolorchart.com/ral-classic/ral-8017-chocolate-brown
https://www.ralcolorchart.com/ral-classic/ral-6027-light-green
Old Updates
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BIG UPDATES
Group Buy- set for January. The exact date
is not confirmed but it will likely begin the 2nd week of
January and run through the first week of February
Base
Kit updated - I have updated the Base Kit to include the R3
|/ (while retaining the ~/# Jae!) and added an R4 1.5u Super
as this was the most requested key to be added, things are
pretty locked down but if anything overwhelming came up it
might be possible to make changes
Deskmats - Thank you
all for the overwhelming feedback on the deskmats, due to
the number of responses and relatively close race I have
decided to offer both of the new mats for a total of 3
Update
- October 19th
My first crack at building out the kits
(novelties still to come) Artist renders will be coming but
wanted to get some feedback from the community first so took
a crack at KLE and used kbrenders to get a great looking kit
render I think
Old images and renders
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Here are some images of the beauty that can come
from Patina’d piece of copper
Also to continue my inspiration I tried an experiment
to see what kind of colour I could acheive on a pure piece
of copper
There are a number of other interesting and amazing
things about Copper that you may or may not know, and
hopefully as the set evolves this amazing metal will become
something you want to represent on your favourite board!!
Here
is a KBrender of the latest design
Old renders
I present an early KLE render of G M
K Copper (more renders to come - legends are not final and
only representative of default KLE)
Finally got my kbrenders render (thanks CQ_Cumbers)
Thanks for all the great feedback, looking into options but
here is the better render to continue the conversation
Updated KLE render –> Please comment on the
updated colourway. A lot of feedback around the black so for
comparison with a dark brown that compares nicely with one
of my inspiration pics
Using RAL 030 20 10 for the mods
now and my main copper colour for the alphas (if feedback is
positive improved renders will be coming)
Updated with lighter accent which I like as I agree
with the switch the TU2 was to dark Thoughts?
Whats Next
Get Quotes from GMK
Finalize
date
Finalize Artisans and announce
Maybe some
more surprise renders!!!
Giant Thank You!!!
OneCreativeMind
for everything he has done for me, working with me on
novelties, kitting discussions, all things art and just
anything he can to help make this set a success
Albec13
for consulting on kitting while I was building this out,
absolutely amazing renders and final kit preparation and
putting up with my general harassment
azhdar for being
the OP on this thread and a number of commenters with some
great points
On the availability of ISO in GB
Agilr for early colour feedback and great
recommendation on different colour direction
Nasp for a
great kit discussion and all the time he spent explaining
his process, so helpful
T0mb3ry and Moridin for being
cool with using the elemental design
remendis for being
harrassed randomly by me and turning out was following the
set and giving feedback and helping with me bouncing ideas
off him
All the amazing vendors who are supporting the
set, such a professional, friendly, helpful group
And
last but not least the community, such a welcoming, helpful,
talented place to make great things happen
Comments
encouraged
Thanks!