It makes a lot of sense because ortholinear users often use a niche keyboard layout like colemak, dvorak, workman and others. We just don't need the english letters basically because they'll be misplaced in non-Qwerty layouts
This is honestly the reason for me not purchasing. I seriously cannot fathom why the olkb version dosent come with the hardcore option by default. Its boggling to me. Absolutly gorgeous keys and I STRONGLY hope they reconsider. Instant purchase in that case, I dont want to spend double for the full set, only to toss out half the keys
Why not have the elvish characters match up with the equivalents in our alphabet? What is the point other wise if they're going to be placed at random where they were thought to "look" best?
A community member
Nov 11, 2021
They weren't placed for show, they were placed to align with a specific Elven font for ease of typing. Matt3o has a few blog posts about his reasoning behind the character placement over on his site.
Couldn't they have made the legends transparent? Nothing says elvish like a bright light shining through the elvish text. They are double shot anyway -- for me this is a missed opportunity, and I don't like the color choices either.
A community member
Nov 11, 2021
They're not double shot, the ad copy is incorrect and they haven't fixed it everywhere yet. It's dye-sub. Making double shot molds for Elvish legends would make it prohibitively expensive.
What is the symbol to letter conversion based on? I would love a Tengwar keycap set, but these seem way off compared to the widely accepted 'Common Mode'. Numbers seem correct on the F-row, but not on the number row. Ofcourse some letters (like q) are hard to match, but there is a perfectly valid symbol for 'y'. However, that is shown on the 'h' key, which I would expect to look like a lower case greek lambda.
Would make it very confusing to use the Hardcore set, which I prefer over the more cluttered training kit.
Any chance they would sell more stock im kinda late to the party but would be willing to purchase a whole set as long as it came with the evenstar and autumn in rivendell
A community member
Nov 27, 2021
Based on the designer's blog comments, it sounds likely they'll restock eventually, but probably not for several months due to the time it takes to manufacture them. Drop seems to have underestimated demand for the accent kits.