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The YMDKCarbon Laser-Etched Top Print OEM Keycap is a premium 1.5mm PBT keycap set designed specifically for Planck, Preonic, and Niu40 keyboards. With 61 keys, this durable and waterproof keycap set features precision laser-etched legends, ensuring both style and functionality for your mechanical keyboard.
Hand Orientation | Ambidextrous |
Button Quantity | 61 |
Mechanical Keyboard Switch Model | Cherry MX Brown |
Is Electric | No |
Switch Type | Tactile |
Special Features | waterproof |
Number of Keys | 61 |
Style | 典的 |
Theme | Carbon |
Color | Carbon Top Print |
Material | Polybutylene Terephthalate |
Item Dimensions L x W x H | 11.81"L x 7.87"W x 7.87"H |
T**N
Worth the price, but not for all DIY keyboards
As the product description clearly states, this is for the Niu40 Preonic, but the key caps for the four rows closest to the typist fit my planck olkb perfectly. Those for the top row are of a higher profile and are so wobbly as to be unusable for me. No matter, there are enough suitable caps to outfit my 40% planck and the price is right. The key caps have a slightly gritty feel to me, which I like. I chose the blank key caps because I have found that legends confuse me, given the amount of custom programming that I have applied to the keyboard.The home row bump keys don't have enough contrast to suit me so this is what I did:Took some fine speaker wire, cut lengths less than the width of the top of the keycaps. Using a Q tip, applied a little clear rustoleum spray finish (accumulated by spraying into a small container) to the top of the keycap, pressed the wire against the paint, let set up for a few minutes, then applied some more over the wires. The result, very tactile bumps. Essential for me, and they don't look too bad. Surprisingly, the application of the spray finish did not smooth over the grittiness which I like.Clear polyurethane works well too.I'm giving this five stars because the price fits the quality. I'm sure better quality is available at a higher price.
A**N
Great company with affordable and quality items
They are caps with a nice feel and thickness. I purchased them for the Air40 and are perfect. Good price, very happy with what this company produces.
K**S
Edited: Now 4 stars
Update:After using these keycaps for just under a month I want to revise my review a bit. I do stand by my initial review for the most part. I would now rate these keycaps at around 3.5- 4 stars now instead of 4.5 for this price. The customer service was still great and that is the reason why these still deserve a 4 star reviews. The reason that I am dropping these to 4 stars is several things. 1) The laser etching on some of my keys are already showing wear, especially on the outer keys such as shift and enter. The main legend keys are still holding up just fine for now but I can tell that the legends will wear away fairly quickly compared to some other caps I have used. 2) The actual printing on the main keys are not sharp at all and the color looks like they are already 5 years old. They look similar to when I try to print a document and the ink cartridge is getting low on ink. However the outside dark keys are much sharper in person. On every other laser printed keycap set I have ever used the printing was sharp and didn't wear this fast.I still recommend these keys as they are built really well for the price point and are thick and sound pretty good. For anyone not in the know, yes laser etched key caps will eventually wear away after some use while Dye subbed caps will never fade (that is why dye subbed caps are always more expensive). I would recommend that if you like or can live with blank key caps to do so since the printing on these seems like it will not last very long.Firstly, I ordered the blank keycap version of this set, the seller sent me printed ones instead. I promptly got in touch with the seller and within 24 hours they got back to me and we solved the issue the same day. The customer service person that I talked with was polite and eager to solve the issue, needless to say I ended up keeping the printed keycaps. The are incredibly well made for the price and the printing is clear and well done. They are made of PBT and have the standard PBT texture that most sets have. They don't feel like sand paper or anything but they are not completely smooth like most ABS keycaps I've ever tried. It has a nice texture that I have always liked about PBT, if you want completely smooth key caps than you either have to go ABS or search around for ones that are known for being completely smooth. They are pretty thick and give my Novel Keys Box Jades a bassier sound than any DSA keycap I own. I really like the grey keys on the outside border, they may appear black in the pictures, but in real life they are more of a really dark grey color. The key set may look drab in the pictures but it looks much better in real life for sure. The biggest gripe that I have with the key set is that the key set is misprinted for computer use. The comma key (,) is not printed on the keyboard at all, instead the colon key (:) is in it's place instead. It is even picture on this product page. If you look on the first picture you can see it and then if you look at the diagram page the correct layout is pictured. This was a pretty big oversight in my book. This layout is what the android cellphone qwerty keyboard use, not a computer keyboard (which is why I opted for the blanks at first). At first I was really upset about it, but I honestly don't look at my keyboard very much at all so I can live with it. If you are HEAVILY ocd than please look elsewhere as it will drive you nuts. Overall, even with the printing mistake I can still highly recommend this set as the quality is definitely great and customer service is definitely a huge selling point for this item. I hope this helps with your decisions making!
K**R
Blanks look great, super cheap.
Bought the blank Ortho set so I won't be complaining about character wear. The material feels thicc enough and I like the creamy, yellowy color of the keys and the black-brownish color of the border keys.
W**L
You get what you pay for
So it's not visible in the picture but the text for each key is raised enough so that you can feel it pretty consistently when typing. Picked up for just a basic keycap set to test out if I like Ortho it not but just to distracting so now need to drop more money on a SA set.
J**W
Punches way above the price tag
I bought this as a cheap set to throw on a secondary board, but when it arrived the overall quality really impressed me. It was way higher than I'd expect for the price. I've seen others reporting a misprinted or incorrect key but my set showed up perfectly fine.
W**Y
Great set of keeb caps
Used these temporarily for my split keyboard build. Had zero issues with fitment and they keycaps feel great on the fingertips. Wish they came in more colors than just green.
T**E
Great Value keycaps
These are very nice keycaps at a reasonable price. Most other keycaps for ortholinear keyboards have cost me from $70 to $90. These are just as good quality at a great price. Wish there where more YMDK ortholinear sets in darker sets, probably ABS versus PBT, available on Amazon. I hate being gouged by the other brands.
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