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【IC】Kabuto SA - Meditation

类型: IC
作者: Arallu
发布时间: 2017-01-03 13:00:41
更新时间: 2017-06-13 17:15:30
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86726.0


SA Kabuto


Hello all, welcome to the Kabuto thread!
The colors and legends of this keyset are meant to evoke a traditional Japanese feeling and were inspired by DSA Otaku, Granite, the Hosho IC thread, and of course Japanese Samurai armor.
The Kabuto name (Samurai helmet) symbolizes the keycaps as they sit atop our favorite switches!
Massdrop Poll - over 150 votes!

I originally started designing this as a DSA set, but I think running this with SP’s new SA PBT dye-sub process, the same as used for Ice Cap and Industrial, opens up more designs, specifically the double legends seen in traditional Japanese layouts, but now in SA R3 profile.
PBT SA dye-sub is made by SP in uniform R3 profile.
Taking queues from JIS standard layouts and Realforce HiPro keyboards, this set has alphas that are formatted with Hiragana and English subscript for practicality and approachability.
Pictures
Renders by Oblotzky


Kits

  1. Base TKL
  2. Numpad
  3. Tsangan/60% Adapters
  4. Alt Colors
  5. Novelties
  6. ISO kit
  7. Spacebars

    The PBT color codes seen above are RBH, TT, and GQT(VS):

Updates:

  • 1/3/17 - SP will be able to dye-sub the SA profile the same as DSA, so Hiragana w/ English subscript is still an option on the SA R3 keys.
  • 1/4/17 - Fixed Icon mods and swapped F11/12 to vertical, settled on PBT SA
  • 1/10/17 - Working on getting some renders made
  • 1/12/17 - Updated numpad to Arabic numbers, tweaked the mods a bit
  • 1/24/17 - Renders in progress, added text mods
  • 1/25/17 - Renders uploaded
  • 2/13/17 - added ISO kit
  • 6/13/17 - added Spacebars kit, tweaked ISO, Tsangan and Numpad kits.

ToDo List:

  1. Finalize kits
  2. Update quotes from SP / Decide on vendor

Completed:

  1. Decide on colors
  2. Build a couple layouts
  3. Get a price quote from SP
  4. With DSA HC Granite & DSA Otaku already available, going with SA profile
  5. Sticking with Hiragana/English legends for now
  6. Separated keys into kits
  7. Renders added
    Old revisions:
    More

Key Layouts
Note: the colors from these layout samples aren’t exact
Sample, with Hiragana/English, non-Icon Mods:

Sample Hiragana/English, Icon mods:

Sample Katakana alphas:

Sample, with Katakana letters:

Sample, with English letters:

Reddit design thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/keycapdesigners/comments/5c2g15/feedback_dsa_kabuto/
Special thanks to Oblotzky for the renders!
Thanks for looking!
Bonus pic - Keypress Keybuto

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