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can someone explain keycap profiles to me? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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do they only affect the individual keycaps or the profile of the whole board? like let's say oem are sharp and XDA are rounded, but is there a difference between the height of the rows?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Check out the site https://www.keycaps.info/ it shows side profiles and keycap heights of common profiles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

oh very cool, ty :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Different keycap profiles do make a difference between the height, yes. This blog post has some graphics that illustrate the height difference of some keycap profiles pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You might have seen this image (or similar):

Profiles

The normal keyboard should have a flat PCB and the variation in height entirely based on the cap profile. Some profiles will have interchangeable keys, e.g. XDA you can swap the keys to any row except the first row while OEM you can't really swap keys between rows or they'll stick out.

As far as I know, you can use any profile on any board (provided the keycaps are compatible with the switch stems).

Hopefully that helps answer your question.