Purchased to complete the "transparent" look for my IDOBAO ID87 Crystal. Matte finish feels nice and looks cleaner than glossy transparent caps. Matte finish also kinda helps to diffuse the light a little bit so it's less glaring for the eyes. Personal preference, but these also sound better than my GMK Hennessey set.
(Looks great with Aqua Kings or Ice Candies)
Have a look at the pictures and decide for yourself.
Wanted to make a prison colorway board to go with my Koss KPH30i headphones for the longest time. Finally found the right keeb (KBDFans Tiger 80 lite, transparent white) and switches (Tecsee Snowglobe Ltd. tactiles) but I needed the perfect keycaps and I found them! The legends are clear, they're smooth and sound fantastic. One note of caution, I like the Tiger80 for these because the switches are not backlit. It only has downfiring leds. I think that I'd be blinded by RGB coming through the keycaps, but this gives a really nice, Micromachine feel, and is exactly what I was hoping for!
Tifereth4So glad to hear it. I brought this to the downtown Chicago meet up this month, and surrounded by MUCH more expensive boards, this baby drew a crowd. People recognized it from my pics on our Discord, and were like "Is THIS the Prison Tiger??" It was fun.
The quality is pretty good and the keycaps are very smooth if you are into that. It has many different sizes of space bars. It looks very good with rgb lights, but the characters become very difficult to see when its on. Since they keycaps are abs, there will be shine, but due to the keycaps being transparent it really isn’t a problem. In my opinion this set would be an amazing addition to any gmk keycap set to spice a build. The only problem is that the 6.25 space bar was crooked and when I fixed it with warm water, the keycap became cloudy and looked very bad. If you get a crooked specs bar just return the set, it is not worth it to fix it on your own. However, this seems to be a possibility with almost any keycap set regardless of brand of material.
It’s obvious they look great. But even more than the looks I like how these caps sound vs. gmk caps. Also really like the smooth texture of them. Would highly recommend!
Legends are already fading around WASD. Probably fine if you're not gaming or not using certain keys more than others. I realized they were shining more than usual but the material probably lends itself to that so that's expected. But did not expect the legends to wear so quickly. I also have dry hands, very careful to not use my keyboard after eating anything oily, so not sure how this happened so quickly.
Got the Cyanide with the expectation that it'd look nice with the NK65 RFP edition (and it does), but after starting to put on the top 2 rows of keycaps, I noticed how horribly crooked a lot of the keys are. Even the RFP keycaps, which were notorious for coming crooked, weren't as bad as these ones are. Compared to the artisan Backspace there which is actually straight, it's even more noticeable. Will try to exchange these, not going to bother putting the rest of these on since I imagine it won't be much different. Oh and my spacebar is warped too, like others are saying.
Also the box was OPEN in the shipping box, and the trays used to ship the caps in aren't wide enough to actually fit them all, so they don't set in place properly.
These keys arrived March 15th, and I've been daily driving them since. I love the look, and the feel, but unfortunately after just about 3 weeks, I'm already noticing the legends start to disappear on the most used keys. A, E, N, shift, backspace etc are all fading to different degrees. As cheap as these are, I can honestly say that I still cannot recommend them because of this.
I starting using this set on December 29th. It is currently January 25th. Although this is a fairly cheap set, I'm still sad to see fading and crooked keycaps.
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The only reason that I am giving this a 3 star rating is because I love the shinethrough and feel of this set. If I could get my money back, I would.
Not too experienced w the various types of keycaps, but in my novice opinion i think these look and feel pretty good for a budget set. Despite this, I ordered the set in September and I’m already starting to see one of my legends fading. I’ve been pretty heavy use into these keys though, so the fading time might take a bit longer if you’re not using them super frequently. A bit indifferent to whether I’d recommend to a friend, but I’d lean towards no unless they’ll get minimal use.
these took longer to get made than the ink on the caps lasted in use. talk about lame af. my W, A, S. and SHIFT keys are all half gone already in less than a month, and my C key is completely gone. the key caps color and fit are super nice and I'm pleased with but fading caps sucks given the wait and price. Not sure what the solution is here for the consumers.