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And Yet Another Keyboard Facelift

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwNbLkRwQh0kR00SzOfAZlIN_Q5pQoS5ZWpYSIEaZJnWVqnqzDk9k3ri5qGSPdo_hMezZWbHzMRmSfFDvYggIGJVnrgq9otYL2HoypLA-z9XAkfityNtR1D3G4xt9dMStVpBQmQ6a-PxI/s1600/IMG_5510.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwNbLkRwQh0kR00SzOfAZlIN_Q5pQoS5ZWpYSIEaZJnWVqnqzDk9k3ri5qGSPdo_hMezZWbHzMRmSfFDvYggIGJVnrgq9otYL2HoypLA-z9XAkfityNtR1D3G4xt9dMStVpBQmQ6a-PxI/s320/IMG_5510.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Picture Is Worth Two Words</td></tr></tbody></table>I recently scored an awesome, stealthy, and gloomy looking set of key caps for my mechanical keyboard. I'm pretty much over the "white key caps on black keyboard" look, primarily because white key caps tend to become brown gunky dirty key caps in just a few days regardless of the cleanliness of the user. Accordingly, I decided to replace my <a href="http://dailyacquisition.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-keyboard-facelift.html" target="_blank">white ninja key caps</a> with a set of dark gray key caps that should do a much better job at hiding the finger gunk that collects over time.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioy8O963x339eX-JPvjyvTL5hbPdRDRaUtdnJ6sgwmPvaSRzR5cBQp7GpyWzpim6EN3CNCUf6chiTu6ibw6a3sdL4DmZCpKCA94sO1NsguY-TeaT4DdMnzIhk_gd2vNR_MjH9ScxBJAeA/s1600/IMG_5509.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioy8O963x339eX-JPvjyvTL5hbPdRDRaUtdnJ6sgwmPvaSRzR5cBQp7GpyWzpim6EN3CNCUf6chiTu6ibw6a3sdL4DmZCpKCA94sO1NsguY-TeaT4DdMnzIhk_gd2vNR_MjH9ScxBJAeA/s200/IMG_5509.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br />These new key caps are made of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), which is a preferred material in many keyboard geek circles. PBT key caps are durable, tough, provide a nice finger feel, and can be dye sublimated to create permanent legends that never wear off. The color and white balance are a little off in the pictures; the key caps are actually dark gray with black legends, and they look stellar on my black Filco keyboard. I really like the subtle and sophisticated look of my keyboard with these key caps. Plus, the new colorway of my keyboard matches the color scheme of this blog (at least as of the date of this post).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNAuTPyJHkEUJTT7rroP40YXiYcabkcz4MYyYcGGPd7p3O2EiEQpakDs3dREGHXywggqQhpKcyUxEMBf5Gtz5_9GpdVOfBPs94BH3koUY3tqf0Aw-HJCdSjRde6BFqWxCa1VTaR2DFGc/s1600/IMG_5559.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNAuTPyJHkEUJTT7rroP40YXiYcabkcz4MYyYcGGPd7p3O2EiEQpakDs3dREGHXywggqQhpKcyUxEMBf5Gtz5_9GpdVOfBPs94BH3koUY3tqf0Aw-HJCdSjRde6BFqWxCa1VTaR2DFGc/s200/IMG_5559.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br />I really need to stop buying sets of key caps. I now have four complete sets, but I have only one compatible mechanical keyboard. Hmm, maybe I should acquire three more keyboards? It would be a shame to let those extra sets of key caps go to waste.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy24bTIfElrsQFjkneqRg0cnnjQUlW6lNS1r0vib9C4epZdgT7zh5FRkfR1Mn-_fc3TA6cLjgZ18tL3iFxbKTyxpVgJbnF_EfzT2RUWFemHQVu5mHHTNk1rk2t-Qz_tnMSH7XbFSJRX_0/s1600/IMG_5561.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy24bTIfElrsQFjkneqRg0cnnjQUlW6lNS1r0vib9C4epZdgT7zh5FRkfR1Mn-_fc3TA6cLjgZ18tL3iFxbKTyxpVgJbnF_EfzT2RUWFemHQVu5mHHTNk1rk2t-Qz_tnMSH7XbFSJRX_0/s200/IMG_5561.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br />