Fink Different: Keyboards as counter-culture.
If you watched Star Wars for the first time, without seeing images of the Empire’s perfectly spaced thousands of goose-stepping minions in spotless white-lacquered armor. If you didn’t see the fleets of black and grey tie-fighters, the immaculately designed star cruisers, the evil moon-shaped flagship… you wouldn’t know that the rebels were rebels. After all, rebels don’t look like rebels if they don’t have something to contrast them against. They just look like normal people. That’s probably why when you see Luke Skywalker, Han Solo or Finn (all rebels) dressed in stormtrooper garb, they somehow seem even more rebellious then they were before. It’s not what they’re wearing, it’s how they wear it. Dirty, scuffed, broken. Helmet missing or askew. An out of place, beat up weapon slung diagonally across their body. It’s the simple act of defacing the uniform that identifies them in our mind as counter-cultural. Funnily enough, it works in reverse. To the dismay of...
Oct 6, 2024
“We stylin, profilin’.” – Winston Churchill When it comes to style, and creating a unique, personal look, I think that it’s important to consider the typefaces of the keycaps you choose. Buying multiple sets from the same manufacturer increase your chances of those sets using the same typeface, and thus enabling you to mix and match those sets to create unique combinations. Many sets offer multiple colorways, allowing you to mix and match your set to your satisfaction. I recently purchased SA Ramses off of Omnitype during their anniversary sale, and was able to choose the dark green “Nile” alphas and beige “Sand” accents. When mounted on my dark gold Vertex Arc60, they really pop.