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chilofthehorn
213
Feb 28, 2019
Beware folks, just got my Ink colorway in and it's not what the pictures show. It's not a deep Blue-Purple at all. It's straight blue, almost Navy but not quite. Really messes with my SA Troubled Minds keycap set I pre-ordered at the same time. My monitors are Adobe calibrated and it shows the same Blurple-color on my phone, even comparing the stock photos to the one I just took on the same screens. IDK if anodization at the factory went awry or changes had to be made or what happened here. Also, dimensions or vector layout (SVG) of the spacer would be nice. I plan on making my own using my laser cutter and wanted to use just a slightly different setup than what they showed. Photo taken with Pixel 3, no alteration. Light temp was Daylight. PLEASE give Pantone or HEX colors for stuff next time.
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Dingonek
29
Feb 28, 2019
chilofthehornI had the same thought. Honestly extremely disappointed with the color - it has none of the vibrant reddish-purple hue that made it look so appealing to me in the first place.
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chilofthehorn
213
Feb 28, 2019
DingonekYeah, its not even close and not something that squinting can fix either. The color is not deep or dark like it is in the pictures, nor does it have the reddish-purple undertones. All I can imagine is 2 scenarios happened here.
  1. Different Anodizing dye color was used for production than for the pictures above (Dye is expensive and they would have had to mix the dye themselves. If the factory got lazy, they probably just went with the straight blue dye and did not mix in any of the violet dye.)
  2. They didn't leave the parts in the dye bath long enough (Again,, probably to finish production faster they left parts in for 20min rather than the 40+min needed to get deep colors).
My major regret here is that they likely did put the parts in a sealer bath so its not like I can go and get some anodizing dye and fix it to be the color shown in the pictures. I think the only option now is to use some Dupli-Color EMC204007 Purple Metal Cast Anodized Color to give it the right tint.
Radiospank
35
Feb 28, 2019
chilofthehornyo, serious! I swear it looks like the same one from kbdfans or a honda civic SI blue from 1999. It's a nice case and I still like the color, but the one that was promised was just too good.
chilofthehorn
213
Feb 28, 2019
RadiospankGreat.... So it's everyone's and not just mine. So it's not like I can just go as customer service for a new one. 😞
aznguyen316
14
Feb 28, 2019
Radiospankdude sick reference to the Civic Si blue lmao. That was my dream car in HS. Damn I wanted that deep purple, but at least that civic SI blue is pretty nice in itself.
Radiospank
35
Feb 28, 2019
aznguyen316Yea It is a nice color, I'm going to sit on it for awhile and see if I can stand the amount of riceness this case looks like now.
aznguyen316
14
Feb 28, 2019
RadiospankToss on a brass spoiler in the back of the case and I got end game!
Fatalruin
193
Mar 1, 2019
chilofthehornFirst the "eggplant purple" on the Zephyr and now "ink" on this -- it's been a rough year for purple anodization. Maybe folks in China have a different definition of what purple is.
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