Finally received the package and put the keycaps on! Coming from Nuphy black shine-throughs, the XVX are slightly taller and have a smaller surface area. Some key come in multiple variants, with varying corner radius and colors. Unfortunately, the F keys do not have FN-layer legends. Some keycaps do not shine through completely, even ones you'd expect not to have any problems, like F9. Under indirect daylight, even with the most contrasting backlight on, keys with smaller legends suffer reduced legibility. Time will tell how I like the new profile, but at least the colors now match the default Sublime scheme.

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Blacksad999 t1_j1yeo76 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:49 AM

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They look really nice! The render in that color didn't look as good as they do in real life.

BillyBuerger t1_j22t8uj wrote on December 29, 2022 at 6:05 AM

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I got my XVX Skyline Denim recently as well. Same colorway but not shine through. I don't do any backlighting and the contrast on the double shot looks really nice. One of the reason I don't care for shine through is that without the lighting the contrast tends to be pretty bad. Seems the PBT they used maybe doesn't work the best for shine through leading to dim and not full coverage on the legends.

I also don't actually have a board to put these on yet but I do plan on building something with low profile MX switches like Choc V2 or something where these should work well. Although they are a "low profile" keycap, they're not any lower on standard MX switches than my Devlin Q series. But that means they should be slightly lower than DSA and most other MX keycaps.

Being that these keycaps were not made specifically for the Nuphy, it's expected that the FN legends wouldn't be there. Those are keyboard dependent so they'd have to make different legends for every possible keyboard out there.