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KLP Lamé keycaps
Nikita Shirokov shared KLP Lamé, a set of new keycaps for Kailh Choc switches.
Published August 12, 2023
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Nikita Shirokov aka braindefender, who brought us the Värdera keycaps, published a set of tasty low-profile caps going by the name KLP Lamé.
UPDATE: If you don't have a 3D printer, 3dkeycap (CA) has Lamé sets on offer, and injection molded versions are available on Aliexpress as well.
While the Värdera was a uniform profile, the Lamé comes in six different variants.
You can find all the Fusion 360 source files, STL models and more in the repo for these caps:
- Normal. Just a flat keycap profile with a small recess, that is soothing for fingers.
- Normal Tilted. Same as Normal, but top profile has a 15° tilt and 0.5mm upward height compensation.
- Thumb. Same as Normal, but top profile has a cut along down side.
- Saddle. Same as Thumb, but top profile has two symmetrical cuts.
- Saddle Tilted. Tilted version of Saddle. Same 15° and height compensation.
- Saddle Homing. Has three little bumps that is useful to determine home positions.
EDIT 2023-08-23
KLP Lamé caps now also with MX stems (source).
Resources
Published on Sat 12th Aug 2023. Featured in KBD #131.
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