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Kailh Box Jade

Spec sheet

Type: Clicky
Top housing: PC
Bottom housing: PC
Stem: POM
Spring: 50g actuation · 70g bottom-out
Travel: 3.6 mm
Factory lubed: no
Released: Mar 1, 2018

Heavier box clicky with a thicker click bar than the Box White, producing a louder, crisper snap and higher actuation force. The box stem protects the leaf spring from contamination; Jade's stiffer bar gives builders a louder, more deliberate click character without sacrificing the Box line's IP56-rated housing.

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Mentioned in 3 articles

Cross-section of a Gateron Magnetic Jade switch drawn in a single warm-grey stroke — polycarbonate top housing over a closed nylon bottom, a POM stem with a small rare-earth magnet seated in its base, descending toward a Hall sensor pad on the PCB below. A coral callout line picks out the magnet and the sensor, with faint coral field lines tightening between them, and a small warm-bronze theme dot sits in the upper-right margin.

Deep Dives

Gateron Magnetic Jade: the Hall-effect linear built to be argued about like a mechanical one

Pull a Magnetic Jade apart and the parts list reads like a mid-tier mechanical linear: polycarbonate top, nylon bottom, POM stem, factory lube. Where the leaf would be, there is a magnet. That one substitution explains the feel, the sound, and why it will not fit half the Hall-effect boards on the market.

thockAug 21, 202611 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily across six data points before leveling into a flat plateau across the final two, plotted against a warm-grey keyboard silhouette, with a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

Hall-effect stopped climbing. That's not the same as cooling off.

The Hall Effect/Rapid Trigger category has held flat at 97 on thock's trends tracker for two straight weeks, after climbing from 82 in late June. A flat line at the top of the chart looks like fading interest if you're reading it as a stock ticker. Read as a market snapshot, it says something closer to the opposite.

thockAug 12, 20266 min read

Cross-section diptych of two clicky switches — a click-jacket sleeve riding the stem rail on the left half and a horizontal click-bar leaf anchored in the housing on the right half, drawn in a single warm-grey stroke with an ochre splash spanning both click events and brass focal dots at each strike point.

Deep Dives

Why clicky switches still have a constituency

Linears and tactiles dominate the modern build conversation, and clickies barely appear in it. The reason is not that clicky switches have aged out — it is that the people who want them really want them, and the manufacturers know it.

thockApr 18, 202610 min read

Kailh Box Jade appears in editor-curated build sheets.

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