Hallo, hallå, and hei! We're excited to introduce new PBT keycaps, including:
- German,
- Nordic,
- Plain ANSI and ISO (just like the Blank option, but without the dots),
- OS keycaps include two Cmd, Opt, and Windows keycaps to make you feel more at home if you're a Mac or Windows user.
Let me emphasize that these are not cheap ABS but durable PBT keycaps. PBT keycaps featuring non-English symbols are rare, and we've paid dearly for their tooling to bring them to life. These keycaps are backlit-friendly, the same type that the UHK 60 v2 has. The legends are easy to read even when they’re not backlit. The surface of these keycaps never gets shiny with use, and their legends never fade.
You can purchase the German, Nordic, and Plain keycap sets as part of your new UHK or as a separate keycap set.
The OS keycaps are only available as a separate product. We won't make them available as a product option for the UHK because we already offer too many product options, which makes manufacturing slow and error-prone.
Let's see some photos of the new keycaps in their full glory.
We haven't forgotten about the UHK 60 v1 backlight upgrade kit that we promised ages ago, and we'll announce it in a separate update.
Lastly, I'm delighted to say that we've caught up with pending orders, and new orders will ship in a week.
Talk to you soon!
Hello
Do you think you'd provide a french layout (AZERTY) some day?
Thanks !
Hi Nico,
I'm sorry to say that we don't plan to introduce further keycap options because the tooling fee of PBT keycaps and the mass production quantity are too high, so they cannot be justified financially.
Thanks for your understanding.
Hello László,
first of all thanks for the great keyboard...!
I use the US layout for most of the time on my keyboard because I'm dealing with it professionally, but at some points I have to use German special characters...
How can I insert these into my layout?
Hi Aleks, and thanks for your support!
Please read this article.
I am using the UK layout too and need germans special characters too.
For this reason I am using the EURKey as configuration for MS Windows and my Linux systems.
Using this you get ä for example with alt+a etc. very simple and it works great. (it works for skandinavian and many more european languages)
See here: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/
Laszlo's recommendation of macros works well enough imho. Only issue is the capitalized version of a character needs to be bound to a separate layer, ie. you can't simply capitalize it using extra Shift modifier. Eg for "ö" I've this macro: https://i.imgur.com/eV6Lp11.jpeg