类型: IC
作者: kapowaz
发布时间: 2021-03-10 13:56:35
更新时间:
2022-05-31 10:33:10
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=111651.0
Introducing ePBT Creative Studio, a
keycap set inspired by and featuring sublegends for your
favourite creative tools. The set comprises dark grey alpha
keys and two themed modifiers sets: a sky blue and navy PS
theme, and an orange and maroon AI theme. ISO-UK is
supported in the base alphas kit, and NorDe support provided
via an extension kit. An extensive Nomad kit provides
support for 40% and ortholinear keyboard layouts when paired
with either alphas kit.
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Manufacturer: EnjoyPBT
Keycaps: PBT reverse dye-sublimation
Changelog
2022-05-31
Its been a long
wait, but Ive finally received the first set of samples from
EnjoyPBT. See below for more details!
2021-09-20
Apologies to everyone whos been patiently waiting for
updates. Like pretty much everyone working on a project
manufactured by EnjoyPBT using their new reverse dyesub
process, Ive been hit by delays as they finished their
mould. Unfortunately I didnt use the downtime as
productively as I could (as far as this project goes at
least I did move house!) and so once news came that they
were ready to start making samples, I revisited my project
and realised there were quite a few things I needed to
improve.
The biggest of these is that in order to make
kitting changes easier I decided to undertake the
substantial work to move from using Illustrator to Figma.
This has made it much easier for me to make changes to
individual legends or keys, and have the changes filter out
across all the kits and layouts that use those keys. Most
recently I undertook the (considerable) work of moving from
key-specific SVG legends (think: a single graphic per key)
to individual components per symbol, or glyph (e.g.
a specific component for the exclamation mark); this made it
easier to ensure that different keys which used the same
symbol in the primary, secondary or tertiary location always
had the symbol in the same relative position. It also made
it easier for me to update all instances of a single glyph
whenever I tweaked it (and this has happened a few
times).
So, my patient reader, whats changed? Well, in
addition to a number of changes based on feedback from
members of this community, I have also revisited the kitting
for 40s users (the nomad kit), and substantially overhauled
international language support. In place of a single NorDe
kit including AltGr keys for all colour schemes,
AltGr keys have moved into their respectively-themed
modifier kits, and the actual language support has been
overhauled. NorDe is now NorDe++ and includes support for
Danish, Estonian, Faroese, German, Icelandic, Norwegian
and Swedish & Finnish. There are two additional new language kits:
French & Belgian-French, and
Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, the latter
including support for common keys in Latin America, and
Brazil-Portuguese.
One major change which required a
fair bit of testing was ensuring that international kits had
the right icon sublegends for the key in that locations
behaviour when using that languages layout. Particularly the
minus and plus keys on the number row, which are used for
the remove/add anchor point tool respectively, as these
retain that functionality for whatever key is in that
location, rather than following the minus and plus keys to
their alternate location.
With a mammoth twenty kits to
manage now, Im eschewing renders of every single kit for the
moment, and will instead focus future renders on providing
previews of the kits in use on a variety of boards, as well
as some renders in neutral lighting for colour matching
purposes. Hopefully this approach will communicate
everything interested parties need to see about the kitting,
and separate renders will do their own respective job.
Finally,
I do have other irons in the fire, and a number of
collaborations and complementary items that will form part
of the group buy. Keep your eyes peeled for a future update
with news about artisans and other goodies soon!
2021-04-06
I don’t currently have the time to update my renders,
but a future update will make a few changes which were
proposed by folks on here (most notably, I’ll be removing F
keys from the neutral modifiers kit, since these are
duplicated across the base alpha kits). For those who have
been asking when they’ll get to see this in group buy: first
of all thank you sincerely for your enthusiasm! It’s
genuinely exciting to see my design get such a reception. As
yet EnjoyPBT haven’t been in a position to quote for the
sets, and since I’m moving house soon this has become
something of a lower priority. As soon as I’ve moved (and
have working internet again!) I will be back to focusing on
getting this to the group buy stage.
2021-03-16
By popular demand, Ive added two new kits: a Neutral
Modifiers kit with all-grey modifiers, and a sublegend-less
Alphas kit.
2021-03-15
Thank you
to everyone for the really enthusiastic response, and the
many helpful suggestions and observations. Ive been working
hard to make changes to try and address the most common bits
of feedback, and have updated the kitting images
accordingly:
- Substantially reworked Modifiers and Modern kits; all modifiers are icon-based now, and as a result the Modern kit has shrunk (since a lot of keys would otherwise have been duplicated)
- Removed media key sublegends from the F-row keys in the Modifier kits, and added their equivalents to the Modern kits.
- Added F-row keys to to Alphas kit to permit alternating F-row colours (if you like that)
- Added an extra B key to the Alphas kit to support Alice users (and removed it from Nomad kits)
- Moved some Mac-specific keys from Alphas to Modern kits
- Added tilde and pipe keys to both modifier sets
- Changed Numlock key to be an icon modifier in the Numpad kits
- Merged the two NorDe kits into a single kit with both mod colours; also, replaced AltGr with a new icon legend
- Substantially reworked the Nomad kits to better support 40s users. Too many changes to list, but hopefully youll see something more to your liking if youre a 40% user and want to pick up just the alphas and nomad kits
-
Substantially revisited the Novelties kits. A lot of
people raised concerns about the Ai and Ps icon novelties,
and Ive taken the decision to remove these to ensure the
kit wont have any legality issues. Ive also changed many
of the 1U novelties in each kit to be more
app-specific.
Samples
2022-05-31
Note that Im still missing an Orange/Maroon accent key sample, and the grey sublegend on the G key is the same colour as the legend (it should be a darker shade of grey). Overall Im very happy with the progress though, and I hope you agree they look good!
Kits
/* Revised 2021-03-15 // Revised 2021-03-16 ///* Revised 2021-09-20
NEW Base///*
NEW Base without sublegends///*
NEW PS Modifiers Kit///*
NEW AI Modifiers///*
NEW Neutral Modifiers///*
NEW PS Numpad///*
NEW AI Numpad///*
NEW Neutral Numpad///*
NEW PS Modern///*
NEW AI Modern///*
NEW Neutral Modern///*
NEW PS Nomad///*
NEW AI Nomad///*
NEW Neutral Nomad///*
NEW Spacebars///*
NEW PS Novelties///*
NEW AI Novelties///*
NEW NorDe++///*
NEW French/Belgian-French///*
NEW Italian/Spanish/Portuguese///*
Older kit renders
More
Alphas Base Kit/*
Neutral Alphas Kit//
Modifiers PS/*
Modifiers AI/*
Modifiers Neutral//
Numpad PS/*
Numpad AI/*
Modern PS/*
Modern AI/*
NorDe/*
Nomad PS/*
Nomad AI/*
Spacebars PS
Spacebars AI
Novelties PS/*
Novelties AI/*
Deskmats
Deskmat Accent
Deskmat PS
Deskmat AI
Renders
Pillow65 by KeliumWorks
Bloq by THOK
Older renders
U80-A by RAMA WORKS
Dalco 959 Mini by Hand Engineering x Dalesnail
Haus by Hand Engineering
Isometria 75 by ebastler
M6-C by RAMA WORKS
Artisans
TBA
Collaborations
Please get in touch if youre interested in working on
a collaboration.
Pricing
TBD
Proxy Vendors
I have
vendors lined up for all of the following regions; if youre
a vendor representing another region that doesnt
substantially overlap with one of these and are interested
in acting as proxy for ePBT Creative Studio, please feel
free to get in touch!
North America:
TBA Mexico: TBA Chile: TBA
Canada: TBA Europe: TBA
UK: TBA China: kbdfans
SE Asia: TBA Oceania:
TBD
Many thanks to everybody who provided feedback,
tips and assistance, in particular NoPunIn10Did and DrHigsby
for much assistance with kitting, and ImperfectLink for the
magic that is Keyboard Render Kit.
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