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Every #pbt piece

Side-profile cross-section of two stacked keycaps drawn in a single warm-ochre stroke on a warm-paper field — the upper cap thinner-walled with a glossy ABS sheen indicated by a smooth highlight, the lower cap thicker-walled with a matte PBT surface indicated by short stippled hatching, both annotated with small leader lines pointing to wall thickness and surface texture.
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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.

thock10 min read
#pbt — thock