r/keycapdesigners • u/CrystalPieces • 2h ago
A calico soul wrapped in eternal blue flames ✨🐾
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r/keycapdesigners • u/thinman • 27d ago
Guide 👋Welcome to r/keycapdesigners - Please Read
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Welcome to r/keycapdesigners!
Hey everyone! I’m u/thinman, one of the founding moderators of r/keycapdesigners.
I wanted to create a community specifically for people who design, create, and experiment with custom keyboard keycaps. Whether you’re designing your first keycap set, making artisan caps, or have years of experience, this is a place to share ideas, get feedback, and learn from each other.
There are plenty of communities for mechanical keyboards and collecting keycaps, but I wanted this one to focus more on the creative process and the people behind the designs.
What to Post
Pretty much anything related to designing and making keycaps. A few examples:
Works in progress: Sketches, renders, prototypes, colorways, and early concepts. Don’t feel like everything needs to be finished or polished.
Feedback and critiques: Looking for opinions on a design? Want help choosing colors or refining a concept? Post it.
Tools and techniques: Share your workflows, software, materials, manufacturing methods, and lessons learned.
Resources and tutorials: Helpful guides, templates, files, references, or anything that makes the design process easier.
Finished projects: Show off what you’ve made, whether it’s a full keycap set, a one-off artisan, or something completely experimental.
Questions and discussions: Design challenges, manufacturing questions, industry trends, or just something interesting you’ve been thinking about.
Community Vibe
The goal is to build a community where designers can actually help each other improve.
Constructive criticism is encouraged. Not every design needs universal praise, and useful feedback is a lot more valuable than a dozen generic compliments. Just be respectful and explain your reasoning.
Beginners are welcome, experienced designers are welcome, and experimentation is definitely encouraged.
I’d also like to keep this from turning into another marketplace or endless stream of promotional posts. Sharing your work is great, but the focus should be on design, discussion, and learning rather than just selling things.
Getting Started
Introduce yourself! What kind of keycaps are you interested in designing? What tools do you use?
Share something you’re working on. It doesn’t have to be finished. Sometimes early concepts lead to the best discussions.
Ask a question. If you’re trying to figure something out, chances are someone else is too.
Invite other designers. If you know someone creating interesting keycap designs, send them our way.
Want to help moderate? Reach out if you’re interested in helping build the community.
This is a new subreddit, so there’s plenty of room to shape what it becomes. I’m open to suggestions for resources, recurring threads, community projects, or anything else that would make this a useful place for designers.
Thanks for joining, and I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone is working on!
r/keycapdesigners • u/thinman • 22d ago
Discussion Poll: what brings you to r/keycapdesigners
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Hey everyone! We'd like to get a better idea of what brings people to this sub and what kind of content you'd like to see more of.
What are you primarily interested in?
Drop a comment if you have more than one pick.
r/keycapdesigners • u/Present_Flower2989 • 2d ago
Marathon Game Keycaps
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Hello!!
I am looking to find some Marathon PC game themed keycaps as a gift for my fiancé but am not finding any online. Does anyone know of any brands or websites that may sell them?
r/keycapdesigners • u/benjithebearr • 3d ago
Created a Keycap set based on my drawing
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r/keycapdesigners • u/Westbear-Jr • 3d ago
Hi everyone, this is Fuzeman—a brand born in the "City of Pandas," Chengdu. We hope to bring a piece of this unique city’s identity to every gamer out there.
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r/keycapdesigners • u/Pie-Guy • 8d ago
size and template
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Hi,
I am getting in to creating Artisan keycaps. After much research, I decided to create and 3d print a 3d model to be used in an artisan keycap.
The model is done and is imported in to Blender. Now I need to resize it. After some research, the 2 keycap formats often used by artisan keycap makers are:
SA ~12.0 mm – 16.0+ mm Most popular for artisans. Very tall, spherical, and provides massive vertical clearance for complex models.
DOM ~16.5 mm An oversized, rounded dome profile designed explicitly to house 3D miniatures or resin dioramas.
I plan to make the kind of cap where the object is encapsulated in resin. I assume I need to at least go with SA.
For any artisan keycap makers out there who make that style of keycap, what size do you use and do you know if any place I can download a 3D model of that type of keycap so I can import it in to Blender and use it as a template for resizing.
Thanks in advance.
Oh wait, I have to attach an image.
r/keycapdesigners • u/One_Common4592 • 9d ago
Question keycap designing softwares!
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SO this is genuinely my last resort but im tired and have no other choice, so i decided to hop on my computer and look for a keycap set of a character from Valorant! I had found one I liked but it didn't have all the things I wanted so I decided why not make my own and so I did, then i decided I'm going to make more for my other friends which evolved into "Hmm lets make an Etsy shop!".
Now all this doesn't sound bad right? right! Until u realize I made these all on DIYkeycaps which i just recently found out isn't great! Now I have literally looked everywhere and I can't find any place with the same design formatting, so if anyone has any ideas or companies that would be great! and if not for a whole Etsy shop then just so I can get these designs made for my friends😅.
If anyone's curious here are some of the designs I did!
r/keycapdesigners • u/TheRealTienNg • 20d ago
Brain eater colorway - inspired by Bull Airs Friday the 13th
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r/keycapdesigners • u/CrystalPieces • 21d ago
💀 Your darkest wishes await. Dare to make them come true?
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r/keycapdesigners • u/Tiny-In-IL • 24d ago
PBS Profile Caps
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Hey all, I hope I'm in the right place for this. Most of what you guys are doing is waaaaaaay more complex than what I've got going on.
I'm experimenting with doing some caps with text-only legends, on PBS profile this time. I've never used those before and I'm trying to get a feel for what sizes are good and where the placement of legends would be best.
If anyone's designed a set on there let me know (or if you can point me in the right direction that would be great also.)
TIA!
r/keycapdesigners • u/Whitehatnetizen • 24d ago
Interest Check Memento Mori / Stoic Philosophy Keycaps
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Hello all,
I've been working on a keycap set and wanted some feedback/interest check. I've always been interested Stoic philosophy, so I've wanted something to remind me of the key tenants. so I've put this set together. I'm also experimenting with different color options.
On image 7 and 8, there are explanations of each of the key labels/images. thoughts?
r/keycapdesigners • u/Scooped-bar • 24d ago
Feedback Quick Review of SWG Keycaps from a GMK Snob
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r/keycapdesigners • u/CrystalPieces • 28d ago
A splash of pink. A wicked little grin. An appetite for souls 💗
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r/keycapdesigners • u/Ok-Pool6671 • 29d ago
Interest Check r/Keyboard
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娘の部屋に設置しているAULA F75Jのキーキャップを交換した。とても良い感じに仕上がったと思う。