A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
The pictures that they have for this drop are actually on the full size CODE keyboard.
The "Control" legend is too long for the whole word to be lit up; they should have used "Ctrl" to match with "Win", "Alt" and "Fn".
The keys with two legends only light up the upper legend (unless you have two leds on each switch). The original CODE keys solve that problem nicely by putting the two legends next to each other.
The tenkey plus and return keys have their legends vertically centered so they aren't backlit at all. I don't think there is any keyboard that could light them up so it makes no sense to put them there.
If they solve these things, I would buy them directly, but for now, I might go for backlighting around the caps only.