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The YMDK Dye Sub Carbon 96 keycap set offers a full 125-key layout with 10 Mac keys, crafted from thick 1.5mm PBT for long-lasting durability. Featuring OEM profile keycaps with dye-sub legends, this set ensures vibrant, scratch-resistant legends compatible with most MX switch keyboards including Melody 96, KBD75, and Keychron models. Perfect for professionals seeking a premium, retro-inspired upgrade that stands out in both feel and aesthetics.
| ASIN | B09D3PZFTW |
| Best Sellers Rank | #996 in Keycaps |
| Brand | YMDK |
| Color | 135 Carbon Dye Sub Keycap |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (822) |
| Date First Available | January 17, 2017 |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 11.81 x 7.87 x 1.57 inches |
| Item Weight | 7 ounces |
| Item model number | 135 Carbon Dye Sub Keycap |
| Manufacturer | WPL |
| Operating System | Windows 2000 |
| Power Source | USB Powered |
| Product Dimensions | 11.81 x 7.87 x 1.57 inches |
| Series | 135-car-dyesub |
J**K
Very nice Keycaps, double check your board!
Got this for my Ten-keyless Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard, and they look great. Love the classic retro colors of it, and they feel nice, with ever so slightly raised lettering. As a warning though, this set is exactly as pictured, and setup for that particular style of keyboard, so on mine, I had to use a different right shift, alt, context menu(right click? what is this one called?) and ctrl keys to fit my board properly, as the spacing for these keys did not match my board. I was frustrated at the seller at first, until I realized my mistake, as the left side is perfect, and do I wish I could trade them in or something. Not knocking a star off, cause that is totally my fault, and it doesn't look bad, I'll just have to be more careful in the future, and / or purchase one of their 104 sets that match in color (but that I didn't get cause I didn't like the orange on their Carbon set) So learn from my mistakes, and don't be like me kids! Also, shipping from South Korea was reasonable, and they were packaged nicely with bubble wrap and in a sleeved plastic to keep the rows sorted. No flashing on any part that I noticed, they plug in securely, and feel very nice to type on. Thanks again for another quality product, my wife also loves her Sunset Gradient on her board.
P**R
Nice keys, font size a little horsey
Note: I chose the Grey/Beige set. This set (YMDK 96 84 ANSI ISO Key) went on just fine, and are a great frugal find. I bought these for an relatively inexpensive TKL mechanical wireless keyboard (RK87G) because the OEM keycaps were set in a truly fugly and illegible typeface. These YMDKs feel good, and have a slightly deeper "thunk" when they bottom out. The two-character keys are typeset vertically, as Underwood and Remington intended. Although the font size on most of the keys is a big, they are fine and give the keyboard a bit of a homemade retro look. NOTE Specific to the RK87G: This YMDK set does not have a ScrlLk key. The right Shift and right CTRL on this set are a little too small, so I just left the old ones on. I also left the OEM ScrlLk, Page Up, and arrow keys on because they have symbols for controlling the RGB LEDs. If you use the RKs function keys for app and control shortcuts, you may want to leave those on as well. May 30, 2021 I've had these for a little over six months now. Still a great value set the money. I installed them on a keyboard I use for hours on end nearly every day. The printing on the beige keys hasn't faded, but I've noticed that the grey keys with white printing are beginning to fade. I'm not taking any stars off because before I purchased these I had already read other reviewers who had the same experience.
B**R
The best I have come across.
I have bought 5 sets of these, replacing all my other key caps. They work great for my gateron clear silent optical switches with 15 gram springs and gateron clear non optical 20 gram spring keyboards. Big Clear letters are easy to read. The printed letters make it have a slight texture, so it has a good tactile feel to it. Very good wall thickness. I just feel like it's easier to type on these OEM profile keycaps in comparison to trying XDA and Cherry key cap profiles for stenographer springs / keyboards. Good key caps in my opinion somehow makes a difference on how the keyboard feels to type on. The price is very good compared to other premium key caps.
G**R
Cool and retro
These keys feel great and they have the cool retro-esque look I was hoping for. Would recommend. I do have two small issues, but nothing I feel should affect the star rating: My keyboard might be odd, but to the left of the spacebar is Ctrl, Win, and Alt, and to the right is Alt, Win, Fn, and Ctrl. The left Win key is fine, but I wish there was a second of the same size to use in the right spot. The other Win that comes in the pack is a standard-width key. I feel that using the Menu key instead is a fine enough solution. I also think it would be nice to have red options for all Return keys (there is only one for the big Enter key).
A**N
Useable keycaps
I wouldn't call these "thick" pbt, they are quite thin, production quality isn't great, legends are okay, definitely faded around curves, "F" looks great but "G" looks a little rough. Keystroke doesn't feel as good as it could, compared to other PBT sets I've had, and overall give me a very hollow feeling, I'm not sure if this is from the thinness of the key or the height, or the build quality, or some combination thereof. Very useable for the price, but leaves more to be desired.
P**.
Great Keycaps!
They are great keycaps. I am using them to type this review right now! I bought them for my Keychron K6 because I just love the classic IBM feeling. they feel good and work well and come with enough caps for this keyboard with multiple sizes of certain key caps to ensure the set will work with your keyboard of choice. I only wish there was a Fn2 key but I just used an extra key cap that has the underscore - symbol for that and it works just fine. It also sounds good however it doesn't let hardly any light shine through it so if you want an RGB look on your keyboard, these are only good if you want the RGB to be a back-light under the keycaps.
A**R
Good set for the price
I got the 125 key Godspeed set and overall the quality is pretty good. There are a few flaws but physically the key quality is good—I like the surface texture and they installed easily. The space bar was not warped. I just have two concerns (I took a star off): - The legends are raised and so I’d have concerns about long term use and wether they might rub off over time. I’ve had other keyboards that have had that happen. - The packaging. I’m not a big fan of the plastic sleeve bag. I bought another keycap set for about the same and that came in a plastic tray. It’s not anything fancy, but it is useful to store the extra keycaps, rather than just putting them in a box or bag. Overall, I’d recommend this set. The colors are good and the quality is acceptable for the price.
D**D
I bought this keycaps for my Vortex Cypher with split space bar, ANSI layout. Everything fits to perfection. Obviously it is difficult, if not impossible, to find key caps for the split space bar, so the original space caps remain. They feel very similar to the original Vortex keycaps. The only thing is that you can somehow feel the letters printed on the keycaps so I hope they won't wear off; I will come and edit it that happens. Also the F and J keys have a very subtle bump, which added to the fact that you can feel the texture in every single key makes slightly more difficult to locate F and J keys. They do not wobble (or do not wobble more than the Vortex ones), so they feel quite good. This may be obvious, but just in case: I tried to put the numbers of the numpad in the number row instead, just showing the big numbers without the symbols, but numbers 1,2 and 3 as they belong to a different row, have a different profile, so it feels wierd and I gave up the idea. Delivery time was around 10 days, including Eastern holidays. so in a normal week it might be even faster.
E**E
Fairly impressed with these. You're not going to mistake them for signature plastics, or maxkeys caps; they're not thick enough (see picture with led shine through). They are however nice looking, with a pleasant texture and feel. The quality of the caps, in respect to QC, is excellent. Legends are centered, material is clean and flashing free. I'm not sure how durable the legends will be, I suspect they are pad printed, not dye sublimated, so they will probably wear with use. My last set from Kono cost nearly $200 after shipping, duties, and conversion, and that's what you need to keep in mind. You can buy this set and the mechanical eagle 84 key keyboard for under a $100 and have a pretty nice looking and compact keyboard, with a solid feel. I'm very satisfied with these caps. Note the description, these are not going to properly fit a 10 keyless or 104 board. It's aimed at the compact 84 and 96 key keyboards. I'm sure you could make this work on a 10 keyless or 60% board, but it's not going to be perfect.
J**.
If you’re thinking these look good, I’d recommend them. I bought them back in 2021, just over four years ago at the time of writing this. And I’ve been using them every day since. They’ve held up exceedingly well, all things considered. The shift key is starting to fade ever so slightly, but that’s to be expected. I’m a WFH software engineer and writer, so the fact they’ve held up this long is amazing. But that being said, from a purely “utility vs price” perspective, there are a ton of keycap sets for a lot less online. So the price is questionable. These aren’t even doubleshot, for instance.
B**N
I bought these caps to replace the ones on a drevo excalibur keyboard, a great keyboard with keycaps that I don’t really like. These looked like a nice retro set in the pictures and the price was very reasonable so I thought I’d take a chance. What luck, they seem really well made, have a nice texture on them and seem even better in real life than the pictures. As an added bonus the light coloured keys also allow the backlit LEDs to shine through and give the keyboard even more of a retro appearance. These are so good I’ve ordered another set for my work keyboard - also a drevo excalibur.
W**O
love it!
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