… here's my old 65 with GMK Dots.
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Hey I'm also new to this whole mech keyboard thing. I'm considering going with a Planck V7, cherry reds and these keycaps. What makes them high quality like you mentioned?
These are double shot abs which is a multi step manufacturing method.
Be aware before you buy a set for your planck that keycaps have profiles (Cherry, XDA, SA). Take care that your set support the keys in the right profile row, usually labeled with r1-r5 (r1 lowest row, r5 esc and F key rows).
I'm replying to you because I'm building off your comment, but this is for the newbies in the thread
Yep, the profile thing is really important, the majority of keycap sets have profiles (ie. the shape of the cap is different on each row of the keyboard, for comfort). That's why some sets have several of the same key (a function key, for example), so you can drop that in where you want it.
In the case of GMK Dots, you could probably get away with not thinking too hard about profiles, since the keys have identical legends, you should have enough keys in the right profile to build a board.
My build uses MT3 keycaps (MT3 Extended designed by Biip and sold by Drop) for example, which have very aggressive sculpted shapes. I had to make sure that I could get the correct profile for the keys I wanted. For example, I wanted Home and End keys on my top row (96% layout), and most keycap sets will only include an End key for the row below that (and for the row below that one, annoyingly enough). But the set I was getting also had a numpad addon ( which I did want) that had extra nav keys (Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, etc) for the top row. Which makes sense, the numpad addon will primarily be used by people working on a similar concept as me.
Mismatching profiles feels really bad, it'll look and feel like driving on three tires and a bare rim. No thanks. Avoid that at all costs.
Ah yes, double shot! Wow, somehow missed that. I wanted to go with DSA which don't have this row specific profile but I see that these come only with the cherry profile. Could you explain me the typing difference a bit? I always used DSA keycaps on all of my keyboards.