Ortholinear refers to keyboards that are not staggered I.E. where the keys are arranged in rows and columns. This means if you put standard size mods, where keys like shift and tab aren't a whole letter key wide, it won't fit, so you need different modifier keys.
Is there a way to purchase this as an already-installed functional keyboard, rather than just keycaps? If not, do you have an easy purchase list of parts for a build-your-own? Thanks.
Newb here, Is there a reason these are made in ABS and not PBT?
A community member
Nov 8, 2021
It's difficult to do a reverse dye-sub to get white legends on the blue keys. And you'd need to do dye-sub, since it's even tougher to do doubleshot PBT on such sculpted keys as MT3 has.
Also, the blue keys wouldn't be as vivid in PBT as they are in ABS.
Finally, I assume that they could spare the bandwidth in their ABS production line. This is basically a recolor of Susuwatari, with more limited kitting, and didn't require any additional tweaks to run besides switching up the pigments.