HK GAMING Custom Keycaps | Dye Sublimation PBT Keycap Set for Mechanical Keyboard | 139 Keys | Cherry Profile | ANSI US-Layout | Compatible with Cherry MX, Gateron, Kailh, Outemu | Zhuyin

I own a few HK gaming sets; they are not GMK but have amazing value. They have a unique texture to them, and they are smooth. However, I recommend trying them out because of the unique texture.

I ordered these switches with the intention of using them on an ortholinear board.Let's start off with the good:- Thick PBT, though a bit on the smooth/untextured side for my preference.- Quality of dye sub is actually pretty nice. Edges aren't smudged or blurry and minimal chromatic aberration on colored legends.- Pretty broad compatibility, though not having specific legends also helps that out a lot in some cases.Now the bad:- 7U spacebar is warped, though I find this typical of budget keysets.- The dot legends on my alphas seem to be ever so slightly off from horizontal center. It's tolerable.- Really, really hit or miss compatibility with north-facing switches. This is always a risk with Cherry profile keysets but in recent years seems to have been mitigated by a lot of manufacturers both on the switch side and keycap side of things. Not in this case. For example, while my NovelKeys Cherry keycaps do not interfere with most north-facing switches, even on the home row, these do.Notably, my Jwick Blacks were completely a no-go on every row. All of my switches from Gateron, including Cap v2s and KS3s, as well as switches from Kailh and various other manufacturers like Haimu and Philikey interfered at least on the home row, which is the most typical scenario. I don't fully understand how interference is mitigated by some manufacturers, but I wasn't having a good time with these keycaps.Considering the compatibility issues, I probably wouldn't have ordered these since I wanted to use them on an ortholinear with north-facing switches (part of this is my fault, though, as I did forget it had north LEDs). That said, they're really not so bad otherwise if you're using a keyboard with south-facing switches (LEDs on the bottom half of your sockets). I'm pretty torn but I feel like the Cherry profile interference issue has been around for a long time and isn't anyone's fault in particular, so I'm not going to dock a star for that specific problem.

First of all, this keycap set comes with plenty of keycaps so you can use it for any keyboard you have, whether it would be Mac or Windows, 60% or full-sized. There are also plenty of different colorways and designs for what you prefer, which look very good. It comes at a good value but it isn't double shot so it won't work the best with RGB, but that's not a big deal.The only reason why I rated this a 4 star is because there are a lot of small imperfections on the keycap set I was given. The keycaps had ragged edges and extra plastic on the edges. You can remove it and smooth it out but it will take some time.

I got these keycaps to go with my purple and yellow/gold theme. I wish there were enough purple keys to do a complete border around the main keys, like the other keyboard I show. A few things to note: These keys are slightly shorter than the other keycap sets I have. For example the ctrl key measures 8.5mm tall as compared with 10.5mm tall on my other mechanical keycap sets. This gives the keyboard a slightly "shorter" more comfortable feel when typing. The finger feel on a scale of 0 to 3, where 0 is glossy, and 3 has a bit of texture is about 1. Just a touch more than glossy, but the smoothest of any of my sets. I love the font. Nicely readable, and no weird font design. The sound between these keys and the originals is pretty much identical. Finally, these keys are obviously made for unlit keyswitches. The purple keys are completely opaque, and the yellow keys show a "hot spot" where the LED sits. Still, when I program the yellow keys to light yellow and the purple keys to light purple, the underglow looks pretty good. Purple is notoriously hard to photograph well, and this shows in the product listing, with the pictures ranging from very dark to quite light purple. The actual shade is about midway between the dark and light purple in the product photos. I think this set is going to end up as my daily driver, but if there were more purple keys, I'd give this set 5 stars.

I did not end up liking this keycap set. In fact, I decided not to use them. The colors in the listing are not consistent across all the images. I was hoping it would look more like any of the pictures except the first one, but unfortunately, it ended up looking more like the first picture in the listing.Also, the blue caps are somehow hard to read as there is very little contrast between the font black color and the blue of the keycap. The white keycaps look decent.