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Every #keycaps piece

Top-down cluster of six GMK CYL keycaps laid out as if just tipped from a kit — two staggered rows with a 1.25u modifier and a stray 1u accent cap — with the centered back-row cap painted deep Prussian red as the focal alert piece.

GMK CYL Prussian Alert opens at KBDfans on May 15

GMK CYL Prussian Alert lands at KBDfans on 2026-05-15 with a Bauhaus-leaning red-on-cream palette. The IC has been the loudest GMK CYL thread on GeekHack heading into the buy.

thockMay 10, 20264 min read

Top-down silhouette of a small artisan keycap arrangement — a few scattered caps rather than a full set — rendered in a 2px warm-grey stroke on a 1200x750 transparent canvas, with a single coral accent picked out on one cap to stand in for the colorway-finish matrix variant and a thin warm-bronze edge highlight.

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GSK Sweet Nightmare runs a four-day window at KBDfans with an eight-variant matrix

Goldenstar's Sweet Nightmare resin run opened at KBDfans on 2026-05-08 and closes 2026-05-11. The four-day window is unusually tight for a formal group buy, and the eight-variant matrix — four colorways across two finishes — compresses a configurator's worth of choices into a half-week.

thockMay 8, 20266 min read

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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.

thockMay 3, 202610 min read

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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.

thockApr 23, 202610 min read

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