Here’s everything you need to know—from keycap sculpts to materials—to make your typing experience more personalized.

These are types of keycap profiles, which is the shape of the plastic keys that go on a keyboard. Cherry and OEM profile keycaps are the most common since they’re used on the majority of pre ...

With a tester you get x number of switches, all with different feels, a set of blank keycaps, and some kind of acrylic or plastic to put the switches in to approximate the keyboard setting for ...

Key retainers are usually small pieces of round or square plastic that fit around the underside of your keycap. Be gentle! These are fragile mechanisms that can break if too much force is applied.

On that journey, I've occasionally encountered Awekeys, a company that takes a step up from the typical ABS or PBT plastic, and crafts its keycaps from metal. So when the company reached out about ...