Description
Clear polycarbonate caps with a forged carbon weave suspended inside, so every key reads as a different piece of the pattern. 132 keys, Cherry height, legends that light up from behind.
The finish
A weave you can see through
The cap is clear PC. Inside it sits a forged carbon pattern: short chopped strands pressed into irregular swirls, denser in some keys than others.
Every cap is cut from a different part of the sheet, so no two keys repeat. The pattern also shifts as you move the board, which is what separates this from a printed texture.
The material is visibly inside the plastic, not on the surface. It keeps its depth whether the legends are lit or not.
The light
Where the glow comes from
The legends are screen-printed in translucent white, or black on the white set, so they light from the switch below. Backlight off, this reads as a tinted transparent set. Backlight on, the letters glow through the carbon weave.
That effect needs a board with a backlight. On an unlit board the legends simply stay the colour of the print and the whole thing looks much quieter.
Print position
Two places to put the legend
Top-print puts the legend on the top face, where you read it looking straight down. Side-print puts it on the front face, so the legend looks back at you from the row below and the top face stays clean.
Both are in the dropdown. Top-print costs less; side-print is a few dollars more because the second print pass is slower.
Colour
Eight finishes
Black, Black Solid, White, White with black legends, Pink, Cosmic Orange, Purple and Light Blue.
The first seven are transparent and light up. Black Solid is the only opaque option, for people who want the carbon weave without any glow at all. It is also the only one made of PBT rather than PC, so it feels and sounds slightly different under the finger.
In the box
132 keys, most layouts
The base layer covers 61 through 108-key boards. What actually decides fit is the second layer: ISO enter, split shifts, a 1.75u and 2u shift, and the short right-hand modifiers that compact boards use.
Compatibility
Will it fit
| Mechanical boards with an MX cross stem | Yes |
| 61 to 108-key layouts | Yes, base layer plus the extra keys |
| Board with no backlight | Fits, but the legends will not glow |
| Low-profile boards | No, this is full Cherry height |
| Topre, Alps, optical | No, MX stem only |
Profile
Shape
Cherry profile, sculpted: each row steps up and tips back, so the surface curves towards you instead of sitting flat. The front row is 9.4 mm tall. Coming from a stock board this feels familiar; coming from flat XDA or DSA it feels noticeably taller and more stepped.
Specifications
Specifications
| Profile | Cherry, sculpted rows |
| Material | Transparent PC (seven colours) / opaque PBT (Black Solid) |
| Legends | Screen-printed, translucent |
| Key count | 132 |
| Stem | MX cross |
| Finish | Forged carbon weave inside, matte outside |
| In the box | Keycaps, blister tray, box |
Before you order
Three things worth knowing
It does not include a keyboard. Black Solid is the only opaque colour, so the other seven need a backlight to show their legends.
And the weave is irregular by nature: two sets are never identical, and a cap that looks darker than the one next to it is how the material behaves, not a defect.
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