类型: IC
作者: lewis.ridden
发布时间: 2017-12-16
08:50:38
更新时间: 2017-12-16 09:11:02
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=93051.0
Hey GH, how’s it going? So ever since Iris, my split handed
ergo 50%, went through to production, I’ve been itching to
get another project out into the community. I’d been wanting
to produce an SA variant of my dark green and white keyset,
Evergreen (
https://imgur.com/a/4KCcO) that ran through Signature Plastics in 2015. There’s a
Massdrop poll that’s just been vegetating for a while, that
I’ve all but given up hope on, so I went around looking for
a way to contact the elusive Maxkeys. I was directed to
zFrontier as being the people to talk to, as I don’t speak
any languages beside English and highschool-level
Japanese.
This is where you come in, besides the whole
“hey guys you get new sets” news.
Maxkeys are
theoretically able to color match to any Pantone color.
Obviously zfrontier request a sample of a given color to
verify this is possible, but there doesn’t seem to be any
issues with that so far.
The past few days I’ve been
digging through the Pantone site, and I’ve uncovered three
colors that are all rather similar but different enough to
each make a spot in the poll.
The original design idea
for Evergreen was to make a mossy, not intensely green-grey,
not quite regular green sort of design to match the
semi-muted forest shades I found appealing, however I
realize this may not be to everybody’s taste, hence I’ve
created a poll to get the community’s thoughts, with the
vastly scientific Goldilocks method. Either it’s gotta be
greyer, or it’s good enough as is, or it needs to be
greener. (
https://imgur.com/a/PsMRD)
Have a vote here for the color you’d prefer.
https://strawpoll.com/3gkxs7a3
This is going to be both the main color for the
modifiers and the text color for the alphas, the other color
of which is to be Pantone 11-0105
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/11-0105-TPX
aka Antique White, as it fits right between being white
enough to work decently with all of them, but
cream/off-white enough to have some soul to it, much like
vintage SA sets that are found every now and again.
I’m
going to see if I can find a sweet spot of additional keys
to support a range of layouts, but not to the point where
the average user is buying far more keys and paying more
than they’d need to.
Ergodox support, 40% support,
ortho/planck/orthodox/Iris etc support are planned for now,
but given the sculpted nature of the set (currently thinking
1-1-2-3-4-4 for the profile), this may change. If you can
think of any other kits that can be reasonably incorporated,
I’ll see if I can come up with a layout that works for
everyone as best I can.
When the colours are sorted,
I’ll probably post some promotional material by way of
renders by one of the many talented artists in the community
(if you fit this description and want to help let me know).
I’m mainly a /r/mechanicalkeyboards user, but I’m posting
here and DT too, any and all pitchforks may be directed to
my DMs, but my intention’s just to let enough people with
keebs have some nice caps.
As far as novelties go, I’m
definitely reinstating the kanji character for tree, and if
anyone’s got any ideas for anything else that can be done,
I’d be glad to expand to one or two more little logos
etc.
Hope everyone’s having a great day
also, mockup render colors are subject to change
(obviously), I just threw it into kbrender.com to get a feel
for it