Chances are pretty good that you’ve heard of our new keycap profile, DCX. In case you haven’t yet, take a look at the firstthreestory posts for some extra information on the profile. It’s been a long journey of iterating and improving to end up with a profile we are super proud of.
I’m excited to announce that the first three sets (WoB, BoW, and Genesis) have all launched as of this morning!
I have had the opportunity to handle and inspect the WoB set in person, and I have to say - the alphas on these keys are impeccable. Where some other sets might have a slight wobble to the legends, DCX are super crisp and even. In addition, the attention paid to the little details is apparent and most welcome. Have you ever noticed how some keys have multiple lines of legends on them, and they don’t quite line up left or right justified to each other? Not here. These are just a few of the aspects that have been refined during the development of DCX - see our story posts for the full details. :)
Pre-orders are live as of today, with early bird pricing of $79 available until April 30th. Prices will then go up to preorder prices of $89 until we are closer to ship. First run quantities are limited so don’t sleep on it if you’re interested.
Shipping for WoB and BoW is expected to begin by mid-June (Mac Kits slightly later), while Genesis should begin shipping by mid-August.
Cancellations are accepted up until the shipping date, with no fees charged for cancellations. No-hassle returns for US and International customers are accepted until 30 days after you've received your keycaps.
Don’t just take my word for it, though. We have a few review sets making the rounds and I will update this post with links to reviewers’ thoughts on the keysets as they come in.
Also, please join at 1pm PDT (3pm CDT if you're like me :) ) for a live Q&A session regarding the DCX profile! The post will go live a couple hours early to collect questions ahead of time.
Note: Discussion section for DCX keysets are all shared across the three colorways releasing today.
The lack of answer is telling me no, but then again it haven't been that long since your question. There's so many keycap sets i'd buy if only they had NORDE support too.
We have identified an issue on the R4 1u <> ISO key, and wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention as soon as possible. The legends on this key are vertically swapped - it should be ‘>’ on top, ‘<’ on bottom, but is reversed. In order to fix this issue we took our existing keycap molds offline (the molds have multiple keys on a single mold) and replaced the problematic mold. The issue has now been resolved, and all future DCX WoB, BoW, and Genesis sets produced will incorporate this fix. There are a number of DCX WoB and BoW sets which have already been produced with the original mold (to be clear - no Genesis sets will be affected by this).
What does this mean for any sets that were produced with the swapped key? We will be creating fix kits for this particular issue, which can be requested once they are available. We will communicate this process further after the kits are available and ready to go. We apologize for this oversight and thank you for the understanding and support so far.
Hi @HoffmanMyster, when DCX Hyperfuse was launched you mentioned that improvements were made (second B and updated shift). You have been asked by @RayBaer if Drop had something in mind for the early adopter, but I haven´t seen an answer to that.
So I have two questions here:
1 - Any way for people affected by those issues to get those updated keys?
2 - How a customer will know if they are buying an old set or an improved one? (I think you guys should be more transparent about it)
I really appreciate an honest answer from you/Drop, and as an early buyer, I´d not like to be ignored on this, thank you.
We seriously need an extra 'b'. It drives me insane that DCX Dusk comes with everything I need for my Alice boards, but WoB makes you buy a spacebar kit and doesn't have a 'b' key...
Paid and ordered the Mac Kit months back. Any news on when it will be shipped out? The status of shipment has been pushed back for 2 weeks and it hasn't been shipped still.