The colorway of the future! (circa 1950)

matt3o · 15 Jan 2016, 19:06

What do you think?

Personally I'm in love with this colorway... not sure if this has been done already (it might be, it kinda looks familiar, but I could be wrong).

Inspired by...

Spoiler:

As per the font something along the lines of this (Ford Thunderbird)

Madhias · 15 Jan 2016, 19:20

Fancy! SA? I like those pastelle colors, but I am boring and would like only small portions of the other colors, like the ENTER or ESC. Or like Skull Squadron? But not just like the modifiers in green or red.

Madhias · 15 Jan 2016, 19:21

Or dark grey mods? Darker then the one above?

Parjánya · 15 Jan 2016, 19:22

can SA keys be made from PBT (from the chips)?

matt3o · 15 Jan 2016, 19:23

I dunno, I'd use beige mostly with cyan and red accent. haven't really laid out a keyboard.

Parjánya wrote: can SA keys be made from PBT (from the chips)?

nope

Muirium · 15 Jan 2016, 19:24

Edit. Edit. Edit…

Exactly. I see PBT colour chips. Much more interesting!

As far as I know: SP can't do it, so we're talking DSA. But I may be out of date.

Ding!

Parjánya · 15 Jan 2016, 19:28

I like the colors, I imagine beige alphas with green mods and orange here and there. I don't like DSA at all, though...

SL89 · 15 Jan 2016, 19:31

YES, YES SO MUCH.

Idk why but it also reminds me of the Gulf livery!

guk · 15 Jan 2016, 19:38

Colors are similar to Jukebox.

matt3o · 15 Jan 2016, 19:41

jukebox is ABS though

guk · 15 Jan 2016, 19:47

matt3o wrote: jukebox is ABS though

Sure, was only a response to:

Personally I'm in love with this colorway... not sure if this has been done already (it might be, it kinda looks familiar, but I could be wrong).

codemonkeymike · 15 Jan 2016, 20:25

I could always use some more funky SA novelties.

nicstreet · 15 Jan 2016, 21:29

not sure if this has been done already (it might be, it kinda looks familiar, but I could be wrong).

Looks a little similar to some of the Lambretta colours if I'm not mistaken.

beltet · 15 Jan 2016, 21:38

I think a DSA would be more appeling for this as jukebox already exists that have the same "style".
Think this could be your next granite

Matt_ · 15 Jan 2016, 21:40

Blonde, Seafoam Green and Fiesta Red? Can't go wrong with those colors!

ileben · 16 Jan 2016, 01:01

I guess the colourway is very similar to Jukebox and to some degree 1976. It strikes me as a classic/typical retro feel. Regardless, I would be interested, because neither of the two mentioned sets really did it for me (something not right about colour balance). It would definitely have to be a sculpted profile, though. I've had enough of DSA. It's about time for some high sprofile sphericals in PBT, isn't it?

vsev · 16 Jan 2016, 10:37

ileben wrote: I guess the colourway is very similar to Jukebox and to some degree 1976. It strikes me as a classic/typical retro feel. Regardless, I would be interested, because neither of the two mentioned sets really did it for me (something not right about colour balance). It would definitely have to be a sculpted profile, though. I've had enough of DSA. It's about time for some high sprofile sphericals in PBT, isn't it?

I think there even was some post around here about hipro pbt !

niomosy · 19 Jan 2016, 21:07

vsev wrote:
ileben wrote: I guess the colourway is very similar to Jukebox and to some degree 1976. It strikes me as a classic/typical retro feel. Regardless, I would be interested, because neither of the two mentioned sets really did it for me (something not right about colour balance). It would definitely have to be a sculpted profile, though. I've had enough of DSA. It's about time for some high sprofile sphericals in PBT, isn't it?
I think there even was some post around here about hipro pbt !

That's a work in progress but, yes, there's work being done on it. I believe with scans of IBM beam spring keycaps, though Matt3o may need to correct me on that.

Halvar · 19 Jan 2016, 23:07

Very nice colorway!

There seems to be a lot of Star Wars art going roughly in that direction.

http://nerdapproved.com/movies/check-ou ... -eric-tan/

LeandreN · 25 Jan 2016, 19:20

I must say I really think these colours look great. Since the colours are light, maybe a Signature Plastics DCS dye sublimation could be an option, with black legends?

Muirium · 25 Jan 2016, 19:28

Good call. Black dyesub legends would really pop on colours like these.

@Halvar: Beautiful art. I get that Star Wars really does feel like that to the fans. Leaves me cold, though. I'd rather watch the movies the posters make me imagine than what was actually filmed. You had to be there as a kid, I suppose.

matt3o · 25 Jan 2016, 19:59

nobody buys SP DCS in PBT ... but I have cherry replica which is pretty sweet.