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
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[~/]>kam_superuser
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.