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Five keyboard case silhouettes drawn in warm-grey stroke, arranged left to right from 60% up to full-size, each adding back one key cluster, with an amber measuring bracket beneath marking the width each size gives back to the desk.

Keyboard layout sizes, compared: 60% to full-size, which fits your desk

60%, 65%, 75%, TKL, full-size — the names read like a settled taxonomy, but each cut trades away a specific cluster of keys for a specific amount of desk space. Here's what a reader actually keeps and gives up at each size, and how a firmware layer changes the math.

thockAug 22, 20268 min read

Editorial illustration of a 65% keyboard silhouette in translucent polycarbonate, evoking the Ikki68 Aurora's case material.

News

Wuque Studio's summer update, and the Ikki68 Aurora holdover

A July 26 product-update post from Wuque Studio sent buyers back to the Ikki68 Aurora's listing page. Mammoth V2 and Promise V2 remain forum speculation, and no group buy has opened.

thockAug 10, 20267 min read

Side-section line drawing of a keyboard case with the plate resting on cantilevered metal tabs reaching in from the case walls, drawn in a 2px warm-grey stroke on warm paper; the right-hand tab is deflected downward under a keypress, with a single muted-terracotta splash at the flex point where the tab bends and a small warm-bronze dot in the upper margin.

Deep Dives

Leaf-spring mounts, explained: what a bending metal tab does that a foam strip cannot

The Nyawice's spec line and Mode's plate-tab mounting blocks both lean on one old idea — let a thin tab bend instead of a foam strip squash. The physics is textbook; the keyboard implementations are not, and the name covers more than one mechanism.

thockAug 4, 202610 min read

Line-drawing comparison of five keyboard case silhouettes shrinking left to right — full-size with numpad, tenkeyless, 75%, 65%, and 60% — arranged like a family tree with a bronze accent dot marking the 60% case as the root the other compact sizes branch from.

Deep Dives

How the 60% became the default custom-keyboard layout

Every custom-keyboard buyer's guide since the mid-2010s opens with the same four-term vocabulary — 60%, 65%, 75%, TKL — as though it always existed. It didn't. One open-source PCB out of a geekhack thread is most of the reason that taxonomy exists at all.

thockJul 29, 202611 min read

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