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Spec sheet
- Profile
- kat
- Material
- pbt
- Legend
- dye-sub
- Designer
- Emil
- Released
- Jan 10, 2020
PBT dye-sub KAT set inspired by the game Hyper Light Drifter. R1 was limited to 500 sets in 2020; the original DSA Drifter preceded it. Often cited as one of the sets that proved KAT's profile and dye-sub fidelity.
Mentioned in 2 articles
Guides
Keycap profiles, compared: Cherry, OEM, SA, and MT3
Most beginners agonize over switches for weeks, then drop any keycap set on top and discover the keycap was doing half the work all along. Profile shapes the sound, the typing angle, and the way a board reads on a desk — and the four profiles below cover almost every set on the market.
thock10 min read
Guides
Keycap materials, compared: ABS, PBT, and the rest
Most builders obsess over switches and quietly accept whatever keycaps came in the box, then wonder six months in why their board doesn't sound like the YouTube video. Half the answer is the plastic. Material decides how a cap rings, how it ages, and what it feels like under a fingertip on day one and day one thousand.
thock10 min read
KAT Drifter appears in editor-curated build sheets.