HK Gaming Keycap Set for Mechanical Keyboard

TL;DR - if you're looking for thick, no-nonsense Cherry profile PBT, I can recommend these caps. If you're looking to maximize an RGB shine, or interested in a more exotic font or profile, these may notUsage: I bought these for a Keychron K8, which is a great value mechanical keyboard that ships with thin, double shot ABS keycaps - taller OEM profile, slick touch, quickly get shiny from oils, don't sound great.So I purchased these caps as I type, not game (thus I like Cherry profile). And compared to their K1, the K8 has very minimal RGB shine through - the way they've designed the aluminum bezel blocks a great deal of light.These PBT keycaps are nice and thick. The dye sublimated legends are clear and easy to read, and the printing is generally clean and uniform. They sound great on the Gateron brown switches that came stock on the K8. They are also much better feeling and typing than the stock ABS caps. And I like the splash of color that comes from the modifiers in this set.Now, because the stock caps have the Mac function key sub legends (and this set does NOT), I kept the stock caps for the function row. Also, realize these keycaps are not translucent or doubleshot, so if you're really wanting the RGB light show - these caps won't help you. And this K8 ain't your blingy shiny board to begin with.But I'm not a gamer, and for work the RGB doesn't mean a big deal to me. Thus, these caps can work fine for a daily driver.These will eventually become my second board as I am planning to make a GMMK Pro (already pre-ordered) with MT3 profile caps my daily driver when they finally ship. In the mean time, this a great budget option.

I recently bought two different pairs of $40 keycaps from different vendors. They were both dye-sub cherry profile keycaps. The other vendor's product was chock-full of glaring defects. They didn't look too bad (if you ignored the defects) but the set didn't even include the caps I needed. I know $40 is relatively low as far as keycaps go but you would expect some small errors, not a handful of big ones. I'm eager to return them.This vendor delivered on the low-mid range keycaps I was hoping for. I'm happy with this product and would like to give it 5 stars except for a small thing. There is a small defect on the caps lock key you can barely tell in one of my pictures. My camera isn't so great. The black is smeared ever so slightly on the left side of the arrow. But you can't tell unless you look really close. At sitting distance they look great. Nice and bold legends.The texture is the smoothest that I have felt on a keycap I think ever. I happen to like it but if you like even a little bit of texture on your keycaps that may be something to consider.For $40 I'm happy with them and will keep them unlike the other three sets I've already returned (and the other two I'm trying to sell).TL;DR:- Good thickness- Bold legends- Defect present but negligible- Great color selection (hard to find 9009 colors anywhere close to this price)- Has all the caps needed for various board layouts (also hard to find)- Good value overall for what you get

As you can see in the first picture, they aren't actually thick enough to prevent backlight LED's from bleeding through (and the LED's on the board pictured arent extraordinarily bright or anything, either). This CAN be fixed by packing or painting the inside of the caps if you really care enough, or by choosing darker colors/brightness. But defintely something to keep in-mind, and I'd prefer thicker material, but then again they were $30. If you want thick Chalk caps, buy GMK or the ePBT SA set and enjoy spending hundreds of dollars for a single TKL...The dyesub legends are high quality, thick and easily legible. So is the quality of PBT (although again, they aren't crazy thick caps throughout. Thick enough that they feel solid, though) so they do sound pretty great considering the price. Good texture, good "thocky" sound with lubed tactiles (although not as thocky or deep-sounding as thick-doubleshots or ABS caps, obviously).HK really does make great looking keycaps accessible to us lowly poors who can't spend a weeks pay on color schemes, and I'll most likey be buying more in the near future.

Got the triangles design, I don't really have any praises for them, but I also don't particularly hate them.The key caps are decent enough, they feel fine, though the quality varies quite a bit within the set, some of them have VERY noticeable burr and some of them are pretty slick.I would love them even more if there was an option with all black triangles instead of having coloured triangles for anything that's not an alphanumeric key, as I personally think the coloured ones really detract from the minimalist design. I might just get a blank set of modifiers.