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GMK ISO-International ESSENTIALS

类型: IC
作者: wodan
发布时间: 2016-11-03 06:28:43
更新时间: 2016-11-15 00:59:38
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=85609.0


Heya,
As a big fan of GMK keycap sets it always hurts me to see these AMAZING sets pop up knowing that I - as a German who writes a lot in German - will never get proper ISO-DE or even ISO-DE-like legends in this color scheme.
GMK has already lowere their MOQ to 150pc for most sets which makes some of the more exciting color schemes possible. That’s still far too high for a full International/NORDE kit like we see them in large SP GBs.
My idea was to collect all the non-ANSI keys from a range of ISO-locales that I thought would fit together and try to extract the essentials from them. There are people who would rather type on stems than keycaps with incorrect tertiary legends but I am personally very willing to compromise a little when it comes to tertiary legends and some special keys rather than using full ANSI.
So let me make this clear: This concept will not give ANY of the included ISO locals a 100% perfect keycap set. If that’s your personal standard you are free to tell me so but don’t be offended if I can’t help you.
My great hope is that the majority of the included ISO locale users is happy about a 90% solution that might happen rather than work for a 100% solution that has a much smaller chance of happening.
An ISO-International kit would never hit GMK MOQ in a community GB. That’s the case for many keycaps included in large GMK Base kits, a HHKB kit would also not hit MOQ if sold individually. I am hoping we can design a collection of keycaps small enough to make it into a large GMK Base kit.
Some large GMK Base kits already include a few ISO-UK keycaps - those are most likely already in this essentials kit and wouldn’t actually raise the cap count. My idea was working for a collection of keys that raises the Base kit price by less than 20%, ideally even less than 20$. Are you with me?
Here’s my current status.

  • Green keys are the ISO-International essentials
  • Yellow keys are candidates for removal
  • Dark blue indicates perfect matches
  • Light blue indicates very close matches
  • Light Red indicates some kind of match
  • Red indicates … hm :(

    http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com//#/gists/6f7830fa68c43c022e3d691bddb1a9a2
    My concept:
  • First key of row 1 just isn’t worth it
  • Tertiary legends are no a priority
  • Secondary/Tertiary legends swap counts as a close match to me
  • Row profiles matter, this isn’t DSA
    Here’s the GB Designer version with just the included keys:

    EDIT - UPDATE:

Got a response from GMK regarding the markup when adding the originally planned 35 keys to a common GMK base kit (100+ keycaps) and the estimate is 16,50€ at MOQ 150! That should be LESS THAN 20$ even with tax&customs&currency conversion!

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