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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

Centered vendor hub — a plum-filled keyboard-shaped node with an inner diamond mark — in the upper-mid canvas, with five arrows fanning out beneath it to a low arc of five product-variant board silhouettes (each a small rounded-rect keyboard outline with faint key-dot rows and tiny config-tag lines beneath); a single plum sparkline rises left-to-right along the bottom of the canvas, peaking at the right edge with a focal dot.

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When customs became vendor-first

From 2018 through 2022 the typical custom shipped through one host vendor and a fan of regional proxies; by 2026 the baseline custom is a configurator on a vendor's own storefront. Boards moved. Keycap group buys mostly didn't.

thockMay 4, 20265 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.

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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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