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 not Usage: 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 have a Keychron K2 HE Special Edition 75% keyboard with the wood details. I've been using Womier keycaps, which are great quality, but don't come with Mac keys, and their colors here on Amazon are limited. i've been digging the classic 9009 color scheme and bought these hoping they'd do the trick. I was excited to try these keycaps, and as a whole they weren't terrible quality, but i had issues with my specific keyboard which made them unusable. the slots you place over the switch's post were too wide, and did not fit into my keyboard's spacebar stabilizer. maybe i could have sanded it down, or cut away the excess plastic to make it work, but i've just been making every excuse to do anything but buy full price keycaps, so i just decided to return them and buy some higher quality caps straight from Keychron. that said, the keys i had switched before discovering the issue with spacebar compatibility were fine. there was a bit of excess space between keys, but that may just have only been noticeable because these were light keys on a dark board. they were thocky enough, but obviously the Double Shot keys from Womier had a deeper sound since double-shot keys use more plastic. they also had a smoother surface texture than i expected, but for $15 i could have gotten used to that. the colors were great, the prints were crystal clear, and i'm actually disappointed they didn't work for me, so i don't want to ding them too hard as i'm sure they will work just fine for many folks. If you're using a Keychron board, just know the spacebar may not smoothly operate. if you're willing to modify the keycap or sand/scrape away some excess material on the invisible underside of the spacebar, these were a great quality product i otherwise would have been fine using. 4 stars only because i had no choice but to return em and Keychron is a pretty common keyboard manufacturer.

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.

Yes, these are knock-offs of the Drop Pegaso keycaps. No, they are absolutely not color accurate to the original. The alphas are a dingy gray-blue, not the bright white depicted in the product photos which are, as far as I can tell, either renders that have been labelled as such or are just stolen images of the original set. The blue and gold accents seem closer, but I no longer have the original set so it's hard to be accurate. As far as the fit and quality of the keycaps: they seem fine. They're thick, I don't really see a lot of bleed-through when my RGB lights are up, and the legends seem be generally fine without any major errors. For $20.00 they're solid. Heck, they'd be okay at $40.00. After a couple of quick rounds of typing on a 65% KBD67 Lite, the feel and sound are generally good. I just hate that the colors are waaaaayyyyy off.

If you own a Mac, you'll be happy to know that this set contains option and command keys in more than one size. I've been able to use this set on my Keychron K2 (a 75% layout with a small right shift key) and my Keychron K8 (a tenkeyless layout). I know that if I wanted to put it on a full-size keyboard or a 60%, I'd be able to do that, too. On the K2, a couple of keycaps along the right side had an odd angle on top because it's a sculpted profile and they weren't in the location where they'd be on a 60%/TKL/100%, but it wasn't that bad. There's a smoother (almost satiny) feel compared to other PBT keycaps I've used. It's pleasant just to rest my hands on the keys. They aren't shine-through, but when I use RGB lights I can still see the light around the keycaps and a little bit of glow-through. All the legends are clean, not blurry, and left-justified. I do have one (the " ' key) that's printed slightly lower than the others. The font isn't at all gamer-esque. I've used them with Gateron Blues and Kailh Box Jades, and in both cases it gives the sound a little more bass, even a little bit of a thock from the caps hitting the plate. Because they're Cherry profile, it takes a little bit less force to activate the Box Jades than it does with OEM and I feel like my hands don't tire out as quickly. For about $40, I consider these a great deal.

The keycaps are very very good for the price range. The dye-sub is consistent and crisp, no misaligned printing or variable line thickness (but still cannot compete with doubleshots in crispiness and contrast). What I personally like is the texture of the keycaps - it is smooth but not sticky as polished ABS, slightly smoother than fresh GMK keys. The click clack sound is a little more muted compared to gmk and much better that usual thin keycaps. I would probably prefer a little more creamy color tint, but I am comparing it with and old and somewhat yellowed GMK set, so I may be biased. I did not encounter any warped keys.

I returned these keycaps. I bought them because I like the look a lot - much better than these loud blue keys that came stock with my keyboard. Unfortunately they are quite a bit shorter than stock, I'd say 20%-30%. Keep that in mind if you're trying to mix and match with an existing set. It wasn't the height so much that put me off, I could get used to that, it was the feel. I can't think of a way to describe it other than they feel cheap, especially next to the stock Epomaker keycaps I've got. They feel lighter and almost like they give a little. I'm not knocking them too hard, for this price, I kind of expected that. I also had a few funny gaps on my keyboard among some of the keys.

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

Bought Symbiosis Light version. Product quality is generally nice, no complaint about it. Fortunately had no space bar issue (saw many reviews mentioned that the space bar sticks and won't return once pressed?). However, the white keys of the symbiosis light set is actually a bit beige, which gives it some retro feeling. If you want some retro vibe it is not really bad, but I expected snow white keys as shown in the picture. But no big deal and generally satisfied. * addendum Also bought Chalk keycaps set, and the white keys in Chalk set are proper white. The space bar of the Chalk set is slightly sticky, but usable.

Unfortunately the spacebar is warped, which causes it to not pop back up when pressed. Big problem! The 2 minor differences are: · the yellow return key doesn't have the normal symbol as shown in the pictures, it has "Bee" like the blue version · the yellow Esc key has the same symbol as the blue version but in the pictures it has "Esc" Sent a message to the seller about the unusable spacebar on December 5th, as of the 11th I've received to reply.

Quería un look diferente para mi teclado mecánico, ya que era todo negro. Pensaba que las teclas que venían de serie en el teclado eran buenas, pero al comprarlas con estas, nada que ver. Estas teclas son gruesas, de un gran acabado y después de unos cuantos meses, aún no se ha formado ningún brillo por el uso. Otra cosa que me gusta, es que son algo más bajas que las teclas ISO (las que suelen venir con los teclados), algo que al final lo he agradecido muchísimo. Finalmente, la serigrafía es de calidad, letras muy claras y más clásicas (sin un estilo de gaming).

I recently bought these keycaps to replace my old side printed ones where the paint was coming off. I found these ones and really likes the old style so I bought them. I was not expecting these to be great but when I got them I was surprised. These keycaps are super good quality and have I nice thickness to them. I saw some reviews about the space at not working but I had no problem with the space bar when I used it on my gmmk tkl. My friend has expensive keycaps that were 100$ or more and I honestly can’t tell the difference. The only bad thing I have to say about these keycaps is that on all the keys with letters it kind of suppressed the sound and made my switches feel mushy. Other then that they feel great with Gateron clears.

I’ve been on the lookout for a decent quality PBT keycap set for my filco TKL for a long time. Actually started looking well before December 2019 but then COVID-19 hit us and well everything went sideways in terms of stock, availability, delivery and manufacturing. A lot of keycap sets on Amazon cater for ANSI layout keyboards only as they are in reality the more popular layout. Some kits purport to be both ANSI and ISO but only provide partial support for ISO caps. The sets listed by HK Gaming fortunately provide full and proper support for ISO UK keyboards and include the double quotes, British pound, ampersand and large Enter keys. The keyboard originally was supplied with Filco ABS keys and I wore those down to a shine in about 4 years. They were replaced with a set of tao hoi dolch keycaps which were ok but again made of ABS and starting to shine. This is the first PBT set that I’ve had the pleasure of owning/using. Initial impressions are very good as they caps arrived within 24hrs of ordering and securely packaged in thick cardboard box. The caps themselves were enclosed in two plastic trays. The first tray contained the alpha and function caps and ANSI modifiers. The second tray contained the ISO caps, number pad and cursor key caps. The caps themselves are a lower profile than the tao hoi caps (oem vs cherry mx). The surface of the caps is smooth which is unusual for a PBT cap but reading the reviews for HK Gaming keycap sets is to be expected. I’d have preferred the more usual rough or stippled finish that you get with standard PBT caps but in reality for me it’s a minor complaint given the price. The caps were easy to replace on the keyboard and a key cap puller is included in the box if you don’t already have one. Swapping the caps over took about 10mins and the result is a cleaner fresher looking keyboard now with a slightly lower key profile. The legends on the keys are sharp and clear, only minor observation I’d make is that the spacing between some of the legends doesn’t match up. It’s very slight though and not something that would cause me to return them, you’ll have to judge that for yourself though. If you want perfection with a keycap set then be prepared to pay a lot more than £40. The difference in the type of plastic and thickness of the key caps has also altered the key sound of each key. It’s a little less high pitched now e.g. when you bottom out the key the tone is lower and deeper then with the ABS cap it has replaced. Overall, I like the 9009 set, it’s a little retro but with a splash of colour and it suits the Filco TKL to a tee. After all filco keyboards have no RGB lighting (well no lighting at all, apart from caps/scroll lock) or gimmicks that seem to be prevalent on gaming keyboards. These caps are good quality replacement caps for the money and I’d have no hesitation in recommending these to someone wanting to get a replacement/second set without breaking the bank.