@brittcoxon I would recommend looking at vendors like KeebCats and MechBoards, and maybe MechMods. Otherwise, AliExpress and import from the Chinese manufacturers. Don’t buy from a drop shipper who just buys from AliEx and passes onto you at a markup when they arrive.

@brittcoxon Exactly aye: DSA is v common in budget keycaps because every row is the same profile so it’s cheap to manufacture.

@brittcoxon R1 often refers to the number row, and sometimes also F row (which sometimes is called R0 when it has differently profiled keys from num row)

@brittcoxon It does, aye; was just meaning make sure you check profiles of whatever keycaps you buy. Mixing in Cherry or DSA or whatever with the OEM keys will look goofy AF. Also: just to be awkward, that diagram has the row numbers backwards compared to many Keycap manufacturers haha.

@brittcoxon And yes most people use a TKL (I personally hate them passionately and have 0 unless you count one I gutted for parts but I’m in a niche of a niche) but hardly anybody with a custom keyboard uses ISO layout so you will have far less freedom of choice than with ANSI. For example, many cheap keycaps that do technically support ISO don’t have the correct keys for UK ISO and instead do dumb shit like giving you two backslashes (one where it goes on UK ISO and one for #).

@brittcoxon Sorry I just realised you might have meant not swapping every keycap; if so, be mindful of keycap profile, is in shape. Some are taller, have different angle, etc. The majority of budget stuff will be “OEM” profile.

@Euan I think the Werner Herzog commentary of his Nosferatu remake is more entertaining than the film. It’s the most Herzog thing ever.

@brittcoxon No, not all keycaps (which is what you are referring to by the way) are compatible with all keyboards, different layout variations exist e.g. difference in space bar length and size of other keys on bottom row. But the vast majority of keycaps you’ll find are the same mechanical mounting type which is because most of the custom market is based on Cherry MX.