Description
Twelve careers, printed one under each F-key: Artist, Chief, Doctor, Worker, Programmer, Director, Officer, Teacher, Policeman, Driver, Judge, Fireman. That is the joke. You spend your life choosing, so this set lets you audition all twelve in an afternoon.
The theme
Warm white, then two colours that mean business
The alphas and numbers are a soft bone white with navy legends. Everything that changes what the key does is either red or blue: Caps Lock, both Alts, the left Shift, the spacebar, and the far right of the board. The two colours are not decoration, they split the board into “things you type” and “things you press”.
The novelty legends carry the joke further: a traffic light on Shift, a bus on Enter, a football on the bottom-left key, checkboxes on Alt, a hospital on the numpad Enter. Draw them as icons, not words, and the set stays readable at a glance.
Five-sided
Printed on every wall, not just the top
Most themed sets print the top face and stop. This one wraps the artwork around all five sides of the cap, so the colour of a red modifier runs down its walls instead of leaving a white stripe of bare plastic at the base.
The cost is honesty: five-sided sublimation uses a film wrap, and the film reacts to heat and humidity. Legends can sit a fraction off where the render puts them, and a colour can come out a shade different from the photos on this page. The finish is also why a spacebar can end up a millimetre or two out of true after the press. Neither affects typing, and both are normal for the process rather than a defect.
In the set
143 keys, so nothing is left over
The main block is a full 104 layout with the number pad. On top of that you get the spare modifiers a kit this size normally charges extra for: 1.25u, 1.5u, 1.75u and 2u bottom-row caps, a 7u spacebar, and 2u, 2.25u and 2.75u spacebars for split and Alice boards.
It covers 61, 65, 68, 75, 80, 87, 96, 98, 100, 104 and 108-key boards, plus Alice layouts and ISO Enter. If you are on a non-standard bottom row, send us a photo of your board and we will tell you before you buy.
Shape
Rows that step, a top that scoops
This is a sculpted set: R4 at the back is taller and tips away from you, R1 at the front is lower and tips toward you, so the whole surface curves to meet your fingers. The top of each cap is a shallow cylinder rather than a bowl, which is what your eye reads as a classic mechanical keyboard rather than a flat slab.
Practically: if you are coming from a flat XDA or DSA set, this will feel taller and more stepped under the fingers. If you are coming from the caps that shipped with your board, it will feel familiar.
Fit
What it goes on
| Board | Works? |
|---|---|
| 61, 64, 65, 68 key | Yes |
| 75, 80, 84 key | Yes |
| 87, 96, 98, 100 key | Yes |
| 104 and 108 key | Yes, numpad included |
| Alice and split boards | Yes, extra spacebars included |
| ISO / UK / DE layouts | ISO Enter included, other legends are ANSI |
| Topre, optical, low-profile | No. MX cross stem only |
The keyboard, the numpad and the props in these photos are not included. This listing is 143 keycaps.
Specifications
The numbers
| Profile | Sculpted, cylindrical top (R1 to R4) |
| Key count | 143 |
| Material | PBT |
| Legend method | Five-sided dye-sublimation |
| Shine-through | None – opaque caps |
| Stem | MX cross |
| Layouts | 61 to 108, plus Alice and ISO Enter |
| Language layout | ANSI US, English legends |
| In the box | Keycaps only |
Before you order
Two things worth knowing
These are production caps, not collector-grade samples. Mould marks on a side wall, a faint flow line, or a hairline scratch on the base are normal for injection-moulded PBT and are not grounds for a return. We would rather tell you now than argue about it later.
Pull keys straight up with a wire puller, never at an angle. Keep them out of direct sun; the navy legends are stable but the bone white will drift warmer over years of UV.
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