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Every #aluminum piece

Near-monochrome top-down line silhouette of a 65% keyboard case with a single warm-bronze accent dot at the bottom right standing in for the new R2 accent-weight finish.

Mode Sonnet R2 opens at CannonKeys

Mode has announced the second round of its 65% Sonnet board at CannonKeys, now scheduled for 2026-06-01 through 2026-07-15 after a vendor-side timeline shift. See the in-article update for the new dates and accent-weight color options.

thockMay 6, 20263 min read

Guides

Mounting styles, compared: gasket, top-mount, tray, and integrated plate

A builder who has lubed switches and tuned stabilizers and chosen a keycap profile and still cannot place why their next board feels different from their last one is usually meeting the mount style. The plate's relationship to the case is the half of the typing feel that nobody discusses on a sound test.

thockApr 25, 202612 min read

Top-down line silhouette of an Alice-layout keyboard rendered in a 2px warm-grey stroke on a transparent 1200x750 canvas, with coral splashes standing in for friction-fit cat ears at the upper corners and a coral nose between them, and a thin warm-bronze highlight tracing the case edge.

News

The Nyawice puts a leaf-spring F1 mount under a friction-fit-cat-ears Alice

An Alice-layout board with a leaf-spring F1 mount, a 9-degree typing angle, and four colorways of friction-fit silicone cat ears is open at CannonKeys through 2026-05-17. The mount type is the editorial story; the cat ears are the conversation.

thockApr 17, 20266 min read

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