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I have a DURGOD Hades 68 keyboard that I’d love to spruce up with some custom caps. However, I’m not sure where to start with making sure a cap set will fit my board.

I’d really appreciate some advice on how to figure it out? Searching online hasn’t been that fruitful - or I’m not asking the right questions!

Are there any recommended stores for ISO layouts too?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For you the row will only really apply to the right hand side since the "a" key will always be on row 3 and every key cap set will have "a" at the same height. The delete/home/end or whatever you decided to put on the right hand side above the arrow key will might be mismatched slightly but overall I don't think it's a big issue. On my keyboard my "r4" key is actually a "r3" key but it's close enough and it's only 1 key that's off.

KBDFans is probably the biggest store, but they do a lot of group buy stuff and sell extras after the group buy. You could do amazon, the massdrop/drop sets are a good starting place for keycaps. Otherwise most keycaps stores are specific to your country so for me in Canada I've got deskhero, ashkeebs and a couple others but the US has Kono, Canonkeys a bunch of others. You can check your region here for a list of stores: https://www.alexotos.com/keyboard-vendor-list/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Got it, one to keep an eye on but a slight +/-1 variance in the row wont be anything critical.

This is really useful thank you, and that alexotos.com vendor list is spot on. Time to start measuring and browsing! 🙌