Typeface for keyboard

Madhias · 16 Oct 2014, 10:35

I think the font should not be bold or too thick. It doesn't look as nice as a regular or thin type weight. I compared some IBM caps a while ago, and the ones which are lighter are much better. I would have fear that when the font is bold it's even more fat due to production reasons. The fattest Enter is i think a bad lasered one maybe.

matt3o · 16 Oct 2014, 11:01

I agree the slim/high-contrast ones are the best

wes1099 · 19 Oct 2014, 02:23

So you are designing a new set of key caps? Are they going to be dsa like the granites?

matt3o · 19 Oct 2014, 08:10

yes, I'm designing a new keycaps set. It has never been done before. I'm not in liberty to speak to right now but it will be huge

Muirium · 19 Oct 2014, 13:23

But dyesub, right?

If we're designing a whole clean slate of doubleshot legends here, I want to know!

Daniel Beardsmore · 19 Oct 2014, 13:37

Choice of font is partially dependent on the legend method. Are you aiming for doubleshot and if so, can the subtleties of the typeface be accurately reproduced using doubleshot tooling?

Muirium · 19 Oct 2014, 13:48

Yup. We should know the printing method, to be able to advise well! I'm perfectly fine with dyesub (in fact, for sharpness it's supreme) but doubleshots have all the colour magic, along with glyph design considerations.

DanielT · 19 Oct 2014, 15:01

I think is related to this http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/th ... t8890.html so I guess PBT dye sub tall spherical, the last taboo

Daniel Beardsmore · 19 Oct 2014, 15:26

D'oh, I was hoping for something like Cherry profile cylindrical. OEM profile seems unnecessarily tall.

Muirium · 19 Oct 2014, 16:36

Yeah, I thought he was referring to that, DanielT, but then how is this so secret when he's already spilled most the beans! All we don't know is who's doing it. Which matters a lot less than the final quality of their work.

Meanwhile, Cherry profile spherical is an experiment I want to see…

matt3o · 19 Oct 2014, 18:37

I hope to be able to give you more info next week

bazh · 19 Oct 2014, 19:53

Muirium wrote: Yeah, I thought he was referring to that, DanielT, but then how is this so secret when he's already spilled most the beans! All we don't know is who's doing it. Which matters a lot less than the final quality of their work.

Meanwhile, Cherry profile spherical is an experiment I want to see…

didn't most of us have some with the Cherry numpad?

my curiousity is on the Cherry high profile spherical, GMK listed they had 8mm and 12mm ones but seems like only in uniform profile

Muirium · 19 Oct 2014, 19:57

Oh yeah! I still have a set of these. Must compare them side by side to DSA actually…

I don't know much about GMK, but I imagine their "deep catalogue" is a bit like ordering SS profile from SP! They might just about remember they even manufacture the things.