These are really nice. The plastic is neither textured nor exactly smooth, it's sort of velvety, and the legends are big and pleasantly vintage looking (with a few problematic exceptions).
Some of the legends on the direction keys (which I'm not using) are quite sloppy. The only keys that look bad on my board are the greater than and less than, it looks like they're bottom-aligned like nobody thought this would look bad with the comma's descender. The numbers on the top row are also not quite lined up but not nearly as noticeable.
Overall though, these feel 100% and look 95%. I've got a set of the T0MB3RY SA Carbons coming (hopefully) later this year, looking forward to comparing.
I actually really like this keyset -- albeit, I'm not picky on keycaps. The quality is quite nice. They're smooth and have a nice slick feel to them. If you prefer matte keycaps, I would stay away from this, but I like them a lot. I got everything I purchased which was the base kit (TKL), Numpad, and the BY/YB novelties. All the legend fonts are pretty centered. The packaging was also nice!
The moment I saw these on sale and in stock again I just knew I had to cop them! I've always been a fan of Artoria/Altria/Saber from FSN since the VN days and Deen Stay Night anime days. These are a great buy for anyone looking for high quality SA keycaps --or just wanting to try the profile out. Even better buy if you're a fan of the character. The SA profile isn't for everyone, so buy at your own risk, it has been about a week now since I've been using them (I've typed on nothing but cherry profile) and I haven't had an issue adjusting to them.
THE METAL EXCALIBUR IS BEAUTIFUL! For the price, it's definitely higher quality than what I was expecting. I sort of want to buy a second one just for display or something.
I will say that I do have a couple small gripes with the key caps, this is just me personally but I do wish the legends were a bit thicker. I have also noticed that there are a little inconsistencies the legends being centered; it kept making me think that I maybe somehow bent the stems or something. The metal Excalibur keycap is also just slightly lower than the rest of the keycaps, so if you're looking for a uniformed look all around, or maybe you're a bit OCD, this is something to look out for. Other than that though these are by far my favorite keycaps at the moment and would definitely recommend them to anyone.
I do hope that they make the blue and white alphas in stock as well as the alternate color novelties. Would love to have those on maybe another saber themed build.
After being a fan of the Fate series (and especially the Knight King - Artoria Pendragon), finally I'm getting this build on my desk with every part selected based on the image of her:
They do not accept returns! They will only take a return if it’s damaged all sales are final and If you don’t read the fine print you’ll get scammed like me who bought the keys thinking they would fit a Gmmk pro but you have to already know to get a non standerd set which they do not tell you nor do the photos so if you buy the base TKL your out of luck and will need to spend another 50$. love dropping 80$ on a key cap set you can’t use :) and can’t return because “small business” and all. Guess I’ll sell them on Facebook to someone with a TKL and keep buying my sets off canon keys they at least do returns or exchanges here it’s just “dang that sucks……buy a different one”. You see this customer service practice in businesses who don’t want to make people happy just sales and I get it but hopefully I can help someone else. If you don’t have TKL or 60% you need non standard since it’s to hard for them to put a comparability listing.
The color of the keys are very different from the photos here on the website.
I ordered these key caps expecting that the blues would be dark and the yellow would be a darker gold like in the pictures. After receiving them they look completely different and drop will not return them even though I have even taken them out of the original container. 100% would not recommend buying these and I’ll never be buying anything from drop ever again. They’ve lost a customer due to bad service.