what are the different Cherry switches?

[Kevinclon]

Whats the difference between cherry red blue and brown switches?

[Virgule]

http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introduction-to-cherry-mx-mechanical-switches/

[Glenwing]

Whats the difference between cherry red blue and brown switches?

 

[Izaya Orihara]

[91wow]

Blues=Heavy and clicky and loud

Reds=Light not clicky and quite

browns=medium/light clicky feel and quite

blacks=heavy not clicky and quite

greens=Very heavy clciky and loud

 

these are the major ones you will come across, their are others like greys, clear, and white and such but those are very obscure.

[404]

Blues=Heavy and clicky and loud

Reds=Light not clicky and quite

browns=medium/light clicky feel and quite

blacks=heavy not clicky and quite

greens=Very heavy clciky and loud

 

these are the major ones you will come across, their are others like greys, clear, and white and such but those are very obscure.

Blues are NOT heavy they use springs identical to reds and blues.

not clicky can meen tactile or linear.

Red black and grey are linear

browns have a light tactile bump

dark greys and clears have a large tactile bump

some of the "obscure" ones are

Linear Grey- 80g

Tactile grey- 80g

Whites- Soft Click- 80g @ actuation. The press is around 60

Super Blacks- Linear 150g (THESE ARE HEAVY) I have 20 of them

 

some of the really discrete ones include Hirose Cherry Variants

Cherry MX Lock (locking switch)

MX-M8 adapter

Cherry Yellows

MX Alps (alps keycaps)

Pale Grey

Click Grey

 

popular modded switches include

Tacto Blacks- Black Spring brown stem

Ergo clears- Red/brown/blue spring clear stem

Bruised (Ghetto Green)- Black Spring blue stem

White Light/ Jesus- White Stem blue Spring

 

These are some of the common ones but you can pretty much use any Cherry MX or Korean Spring with any Stem

[91wow]

Blues are NOT heavy they use springs identical to reds and blues.

not clicky can meen tactile or linear.

Red black and grey are linear

browns have a light tactile bump

dark greys and clears have a large tactile bump

some of the "obscure" ones are

Linear Grey- 80g

Tactile grey- 80g

Whites- Soft Click- 80g @ actuation. The press is around 60

Super Blacks- Linear 150g (THESE ARE HEAVY) I have 20 of them

 

some of the really discrete ones include Hirose Cherry Variants

Cherry MX Lock (locking switch)

MX-M8 adapter

Cherry Yellows

MX Alps (alps keycaps)

Pale Grey

Click Grey

 

popular modded switches include

Tacto Blacks- Black Spring brown stem

Ergo clears- Red/brown/blue spring clear stem

Bruised (Ghetto Green)- Black Spring blue stem

White Light/ Jesus- White Stem blue Spring

 

These are some of the common ones but you can pretty much use any Cherry MX or Korean Spring with any Stem

Blues are heavy switches by mainstream standers, the only key that is heavy and widely available are greens. If you want to get into stuff like phantoms and DIY keyboards then yes, they are light switches really. But this is mainstream, most people dont even know how to properly soldier a PCB to make something like a phantom keyboard.