Join our groupbuy: https://www.jellykey.com/artisan-keycaps/patisserie-tales
- Keycap sizes: 1u
- 15 designs
- Payment: PP / CC
- Price at start: $49
Hi u/everyone
This is a mini group buy open for only 48 hours. Shipping starts after 40 business days. The Patisserie Tales is a small, fully handmade artisan keycap series inspired by the soft nostalgia of old neighborhood bakeries, real desserts, real memories, never mass-produced. Each keycap is individually hand-cast in resin, then colored layer by layer, slowly and with intention.
For collectors who value craft and story, we’re opening a short two day mini group-buy. Once it closes, the design will not be reproduced. As a small thank you to collectors, every purchased keycap includes one random resin display plate, selected from four designs. Thoughtfully made, genuinely limited, and quietly special.-
I always thought these kind of keys looked cool. Especially the resin ones that have “stuff” in them. But are they functional? Like can you really type with them? I have a mechanical keyboard that spent a lot of time and money with switches, o-rings, lube, special south-facing shine through keycaps, and probably several hundred hours coding in QMK. And then duplicated so I have one at home and work. But I probably spend 80-100 hours a week (work and play) in front of my keyboards so they have to be functional first. I was curious if anyone actually types on these.
I think these are meant to be used as a key like ESCAPE or something like that which is apart from the rest of your keys. Being used as one of your alpha keys is just being done here for the sake of the photo, where multiple of them can be placed in a row so they are all depicted in the same shot. You would probably only want these for keys which actually benefit from having a distinct tactile profile.
Having bought some novelty/artisan keycaps, I'd say my main problem is that they don't match my other keycaps. They'll be too tall, too short, the plane is at a slight angle compared to the other keycaps, etc. It's a shame; if only they came in the exact same dimensions as my other keycaps they would look so cool. But to me they feel a little funny to type on when one of my keys is noticeably a different height/angle/etc to my other keys.
Yeah the height difference would bug the snot outta me.