Life Choices Keycap Set — 143 Keys, PBT Five-Sided Dye-Sublimation

$65.00

143 PBT keycaps with a career under every F-key, in red and blue on warm white. Five-sided dye-sublimation, 61 to 108 layouts, MX stems.

12 in stock

SKU: KP-LIFE143
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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.

ProfileSculpted, cylindrical top
MaterialPBT, five-sided dye-sub
In the box143 keycaps

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.

Full 143-keycap layout of the Life Choices set, showing every key, row and spare spacebar included
Every cap in the set, labelled by row. R4 is the top row, R1 the bottom.

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.

Keycap profile heights drawn to the same scale: SA 16.5, KAT 13.5, MDA 12.0, OEM 11.9, MOA 9.7, Cherry 9.4, XDA 9.1 and DSA 7.6 millimetres
Every profile on one scale. OEM is the closest match to this set from the photographs – the supplier does not publish the exact profile, so treat it as a guide rather than a measurement.

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.

Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg

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