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Subliminal Contradiction keycaps
New sculpted low-profile keycaps by pseudoku: Subliminal Contradiction.
Published July 21, 2025
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Pseudoku shared a brand-new keycap profile: the low-pro sculpted Subliminal Contradiction – an improvement on the author's popular DES/CS profiles, with deep saddled dish.
Motivation: A proper next iteration on DES that's lower, flatter profile like CS, but as sculpted as DES; Shorter press distance, but wider top surface area; deeper and huggier dish, yet smoother transition between rows, and combo capability – pseudoku.
Features
MX-spaced with MX stem for now, Choc stem variants coming later.
- Protruded MX stem for Choc v2/Mid profile switches compatibility
- MX spacing (19.05mm x19.05mm)
- Sculpted, but maintains relatively flat low profiles
- 6.5mm max height, 3.2mm dish minima height with 0.75mm stem protrusion
- More pronounced dish and trajectory for more spherical feel
- Wider top surface and lipped trajectory for cylindrical like combo capability
- Top and bottom row dish and sculp are adjusted for shorter press stroke
The currently available STLs cover:
- 1U caps for R2-4
- homing caps
- convex 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2U caps
Resources
These caps are also made to order. The cast version is textured and now in epoxy instead of polyurethane to avoid surface degradation issues.
In addition, there is summer sale going on till 1st of August.
- https://github.com/pseudoku/Subliminal-Contradiction
- https://www.asymplex.xyz/product/made-to-order-sc-profile
Published on Mon 21st Jul 2025. Featured in KBD #195 (source).
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