One of the most fun ways to enjoy a mechanical keyboard is to replace the keycaps.
Many of you may have many keycaps, as simply replacing a keycap can transform your keyboard into a different and completely different keyboard.
We recommend the “Smile Turn To 90’s Key Cap” released by KeyTok for such “dress-up lovers” as well.
This article will tell you a great deal about its charms.
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KeyTok Smile Turn To 90’s Key Cap Features and Attractions
KeyTok is a keycap manufacturer based in China.
One of the keycap sets, “Smile Turn To 90’s,” is one of the keycap sets sold by the company.
In addition to the official online store, they can be purchased at various stores such as ” NuPhy,” which supplies many keycaps, and ” KIBU Shop,” an authorized distributor in Japan.
Smile Turn To 90’s consists of a simple base kit only, with no novelty kits.
With a very large number of keycaps (162), this kit alone will be able to accommodate a wide variety of keyboards.
- Profile: Smile Profile
- Material: Single shot PBT
- Print: 5-sided dye-sublimation printing (5 Dimention Dye-Sub)
- Price: $59.00
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My impression of “Smile Turn To 90’s” has the following four points.
- Cute retro-pop design
- I really like the artisan keycap.
- Compatible with most keyboards
- Unique profile for easy typing
Cute retro-pop design
First, take a look at this look.
It will be the cutest.
It is so enchanting that you can’t help but fall in love with it.
The key caps appear to have four base colors (black, beige, earth green, and fiesta red), but only two are black and beige.
This colorful look is achieved by a technology called 5-sided dye-sublimation printing, in which the top surface of the keycap (the typing surface) is one side, and “dye-sublimation printing (a printing method in which ink is impregnated)” is applied to the surrounding four sides.
This is probably why they appear in a variety of colors.
The material itself is a common PBT single shot.
Normally, most keycaps have one or at most two colors on the base color, but this keycap set overturns that concept from the ground up.
The way the three colors are combined to create a very pop impression while utilizing the base color is nothing short of amazing.
In addition, this keycap set was inspired by “film cameras of the 1990s,” and faithfully reproduces the design of the “straight cell phones” that were popular at the time.
Rotate the previous image by 90 degrees.
Look at that! We see a cell phone-like number key.
KawamuraI’m going to put this keycap on my Treasure Type-30, which will arrive soon, and play with my cell phone.
I really like the artisan keycap.
Since the theme is based on a film camera, a resin artisan keycap is also available for purchase, although it will be sold separately. ($19.00)
The square body is well painted and the colossal shape of a film camera is beautifully reproduced.
KawamuraThis Artisan keycap is an essential item in this keycap set.
Compatible with most keyboards
Smile Turn To 90’s keycap sets are available for a variety of keycap sets.
- 100% layout
- 96% layout
- 80% TKL layout
- 75% layout
- 65% layout
- 60% layout
- Some keyboards with less than 40% layout
Pictured is the Deadline Studio TPS40.
These 40% layout keyboards and Daisy layout keyboards often use a short “split space bar”.
Many of its sizes are “2.25u/2.75u” combinations, which is exactly the space bar of this kit, which also welcomes 40% layout users.
KawamuraI like these keycap sets that are friendly to various layouts.
Easy-to-type unique profile and comfortable keystroke feel
Not to be forgotten is our proprietary “Smile Profile”.
It is based on the common Cherry profile, and if you compare it to the regular Cherry, you will notice that the bottom of the keytop protrudes in a semi-isolated shape.
This “nikko” shape seems to increase the contact area of the finger, making it easier to strike keys.
The rounded corners are also gentle to the fingers, which is likely to demonstrate its evolution during long hours of typing.
The internal chamber has also been machined to create a clear bottoming sound.
Smile Turn To 90’s in Pictures
Summary｜Amazing price for this quality!
This is our review of KeyTok’s new keycap “Smile Turn To 90’s”.
Frankly, I can’t believe that a keycap of this quality can be purchased for $59.00.
Too cheap.
Recently, more and more keycap manufacturers are offering 5-sided dye-sublimation printing, but I doubt that there is yet a brand that offers KeyTok-level printing.
If you like it, please purchase it from our official online store!
- Profile: Smile Profile
- Material: Single shot PBT
- Print: 5-sided dye-sublimation printing (5Dimention Dye-Sub)
- Price: $59.00
KawamuraUse coupon code for 10% off!
Please take advantage of this service when making your purchase!
Discount Code: ryo10
to save 10% off your purchase.
Click here to purchase at authorized distributors in Japan.
