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【IC】KAM_Superuser | GB: NOW LIVE UNTIL 2ND MARCH

类型: IC
作者: FreshFromTheGrave
发布时间: 2020-08-25 17:00:50
更新时间: 2021-01-31 17:45:38
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=108326.0




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GROUP BUY: 1st February - 2nd March 2021
GROUP BUY THREAD
This is the set for all you sysadmins, IT professionals, Linux users, power users
and the people like me who had to learn to launch their games from DOS when
they were kids and grew up around computers ever since. Three mod options
and a choice of accent or non-accent colour keys means you can really make
this set your own.
As a creative professional I wanted to design a set that did more than just
custom colours and novelties. Using the freedom of dye sublimation I treated
the keycaps as a blank canvas and designed everything from scratch. I hope
you enjoy the result of what has been around 3 months of work so far.
TEASER TRAILER
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Since I’m a motion graphics designer by trade, I wanted to be one of the first
to create an animated promo for a keyset. I hope you like it and you’ll want
to turn on your audio for this one!
COLOUR

Dark greys with a hint towards steel blues have been chosen as the base colours.
353 C green has been carefully selected as the accent colour after initial
feedback pushed me away from a more turquoise hue, but I did not want
the green to become garish or oversaturated. 353 C seen in reality carries
a wonderful luminance with just the right amount of saturation and almost
glows off the coated swatch which helps to attempt to imitate the emissive
properties of monitors.
I have done my best to colour match my Pantone GP1601A swatches to
my display, which has been calibrated and profiled with an X-Rite
colorimeter. This matching has been done by eye to make the renders
as accurate as I can to what the swatches look like in reality. If you have
access to Pantone swatches, I recommend taking a look so you can see
the colours for yourself.
TYPOGRAPHY

Roboto mono in medium weight and all lower case has been chosen as the
typeface for the set. It’s a monospace typeface that would look right at home
in your IDE or your terminal and is relatively modern, being commissioned
by Google in 2015.
RENDERS

Rama M60-A

Rama Koyu

TKC M0llY

SP-111 by BlindAssassin111

TKC CandyBar

Isometria75 by ebastler

HAUS by Hand Engineering

Rama M10-A

Whimsy by prkns
KITS



The terminal legends have been carefully chosen to balance these three things:
Aesthetic - it must look nice.
Length - it must fit on as many keycaps as possible.
It must make sense in the context of a bash terminal bearing in mind that prompts are highly customisable.

inspired by terminal highlighting, but given a bit of design flare by rounding
the corners slightly. I found that while the hard edges were accurate, they
were not as aesthetically pleasing as the rounded corners and this will always
be the more important consideration.















SAMPLES
Keyreative and zFrontier have sent me some fantastic samples for superuser,
they have done an exceptional job at colour matching to the Pantone swatches!
I am very pleased with how these have come out, the legends are super sharp
and the colours completely carry my design intention. Once again please be
advised that if you do not have a capable, calibrated and profiled monitor that
you may not be looking at an accurate colour. 353C green is a bit more saturated
in reality and 4280C is not quite as black looking in reality.









COLLABORATIONS



NovelKeys will be making a custom NK65 Superuser edition to perfectly pair with your set!
A translucent dark grey case with 353C green scanline stripes on the rear and bottom facets
is the ultimate way to complete your setup!

Rocket Cables will be creating a themed custom cable to complete your setup!
353 C Cerakote aviator with a deep blue coiled cable.


RAMA
I’ve worked together with RAMA to create the very first KAM RAMA cap to be made available!
With this new CNC profile, other designers will be able to collaborate with RAMA on KAM caps
going forward. The Superuser RAMA will be matched to 7545 C (mods grey) with glow in the
dark green enamel infill!


DESKMATS
2 deskmats designed by Eura will be available, these will be run by NovelKeys and proxied by the other vendors.


VENDORS

PRICING

Additional info:

  • KAM is a uniform keycap profile from Keyreative, the manufacturer of the KAT profile.

  • KAM is a symmetrical version of KAT R2 (that’s R3 in other profiles).

  • Made of 1.65mm thick, all over dye-sublimated PBT.

  • kam_superuser will be matte, instead of glossy.
    To do list:

  • Find vendors.

  • Finalise kitting and add u numbers to kits (perhaps break into smaller kits).

  • Get samples (samples have been ordered).

  • Decide pricing.

  • Fix a group buy date.
    Support:
    You can help this project by filling out the IC form.
    Find kam_superuser on Discord: https://discord.gg/UwbeqBb Ulliam has very kindly offered me a channel on his server (check out his far more awesome stuff too!)
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Special thanks:
Ulliam for generously reaching out to offer a spot on his Discord server.
GTRX, ImperfectLink and Marco for their help with the bash terminal output.
Geewiz and Whizzard for their expertise and feedback on the terminal legends.
NoPunIn10Did for feedback on the ergo kit (I hope I interpreted the feedback correctly because I forgot to show you the corrected version!)
Konstantine aka the king of kitting for his input on legends and kits!
Changelog:
27/08/2020 - Added Pantone chip photographs to pg.2 - Please read the notes carefully alongside it.
28/08/2020 - Added homing kit. Condensed numpad kits into 1 (not sure what I was thinking tbh)
02/09/2020 - Split international kit into ISO terminal + UK, North and South as well as fixed key errors and added missing keys.
03/09/2020 - Added collaboration with Rocket Cables for a custom Superuser themed cable.
03/09/2020 - Added missing keys to int_south kit to prevent requiring two kits. Corrected altgr legends in both int kits.
16/09/2020 - Added first vendors.
19/09/2020 - Huge kitting update. Multiple kits added, legend adjustments, added missing keys and many other corrections.
20/09/2020 - Fixed silly mistakes in the update like missing homing bar and missing accent enter.
12/10/2020 - Groupbuy date announced!
17/10/2020 - Minor kitting updates to alphas and mods kits.
15/11/2020 - Updated all renders to reflect changes to legends and accurately represent colour of the samples.
07/01/2021 - Added NK65 collab and deskmats.
13/01/2021 - Added RAMA collab and adjusted 1.5u convex keys to concave in 40s ortho because moulds are not available.
17/01/2021 - Added cable photos.
22/01/2021 - Prices added. Int_north it eth symbol fixed.

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