Mix and match keycap sets (post yours!)

So, a funny thing happened…

I was looking through my key caps when I realized I had some sets that I haven’t even tried yet… Including one that even had saran-wrap on the trays. Two of them were YMDK (I believe) Japanese sets: one set is white & light blue on dark blue, the other BoW. I thought they would look cool mixed together. So I tried this:

Now, it may not look bad to you, but after looking at this for a few minutes, I couldn’t take the modifiers anymore. There’s something about that Light Blue on Blue that just doesn’t work for me. But, I remembered that the alphas were white on blue, so I tried swapping them around, and this is the result:

The legends on the alphas are much larger than the legends on the modifiers, but that’s okay for me. There isn’t too big of a discrepancy in the font, or anything… Only thing is that I wish the arrow keys were white instead of light blue.

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The one designed to mix and match with each other.
GMK N9 Ortholinear Add-on Kit + Cherry HAD :ok_hand:

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First post. I’ve been lurking this thread for months but was tired of bookmarking something every other page, so figured I could only fight my laziness for so much longer and joined.

I give you: MT3… Spectra? MT3 CMYK?

It’s a mix of MT3 WoB, Extended 2048 Accent mods + Susu bars.
I have some higher quality & less-stylized shots somewhere, but couldn’t find them on my phone at the moment.

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Damn, i wanted one of those mix colours obliterated75 so bad, but missed it. Got a rose gold one tho.

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So, I had an inspiration the other day… I decided that I was going to put the KBDFans WoB on my Feker keyboard this weekend, but I had my Havit keyboard sitting here with the Arctic keycap set on it… So, I thought, what if I mixed the alphas from the Blue Hell set was taking off the Feker with the mods from the Arctic set? Here’s the result:

Personally, I like the look…I just wish that it didn’t have the Japanese sub-legends. It would be nice to have a set of pure White on Dark Blue key caps to use with something like this.

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That’s sweet. The colors are enough to distinguish the key groupings, but still subdued and chromatic. Very cool.

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Yes, it is quite subtle. I kind of wish the dark blue had a bit more gray in it to make it even more subtle.

I tend to be into either really high contrast, or very subdued things. The middle ground tends to not appeal to me as much. I’m going to try a couple of things this weekend to see how they work (I have to build out a new keyboard so I’ll be experimenting a bit).

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40rmie w/ CRP Xerox 6001 × Geekark Grapefruit Accents × Susu Gray minibars.


Forgot to post this guy! This board is easily the current favorite in both sound & aesthetics, especially with the weirdo-blockers… :melting_face:

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Haven’t done a mash-up in a while. I was a little non-commital so I only did one side to see how it would look.

Unfortunately I didn’t get the 40s kit for SAIL and these R4 SA Royal Navy shifts aren’t very comfortable (guess I could flip them). Still looks pretty nice though, I think.

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Sail looks pretty great with navy tho! Lookin like a yellowed Dasher set :slight_smile:

I fully committed now. trying out red accents since I guess I had the bars set from Royal Navy.

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DCS Red alert with DCS clear caps.


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IC: GMK Solarized Depths

I really like the mix on the left. Unfortunately I only ordered the Cadet alphas from the Nuclear Data set so I can’t fill an entire top row. I did this before with Oblivion Cadet alphas so I guess I didn’t learn my lesson.

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Space Cadet extras in a near future :wink:

Continuing the discussion from Mix and match keycap sets (post yours!):


First mix and match yet, enjoypbt BoW and a Kbdfans Cement set from my first keeb.

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Ok, so this isn’t mine but I had to post it.

GMK ASCII + Crimson Cadet + Rudy on Duck Orion.

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That’s really nice.

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That’s awesome. Wonder if the blue is deep navy or Rudy.

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It’s say Rudy :joy:

And I guess I should post my OG Cherry from a Amiga 2000 + GMK N9 Ortholinear Add-on Kit here to :upside_down_face:.

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