Custom design keycaps

[porina]

Just wondering, if anyone can recommend a service where you can send in a graphical design for a keycap and get it made? Alternatively, are there any home solutions to do so? I know it'll probably end up horribly expensive, but I have a one off idea as a joke with friends I want to make reality.

[W-L]

15 minutes ago, porina said:

Just wondering, if anyone can recommend a service where you can send in a graphical design for a keycap and get it made? Alternatively, are there any home solutions to do so? I know it'll probably end up horribly expensive, but I have a one off idea as a joke with friends I want to make reality.

Depends on what you want made but there are custom keycap makers however the prices are quite high as they are usually one offs. A simple way would be to 3D print one or to get a blank set and send them for custom laser engraving. 

[porina]

30 minutes ago, W-L said:

Depends on what you want made but there are custom keycap makers however the prices are quite high as they are usually one offs. A simple way would be to 3D print one or to get a blank set and send them for custom laser engraving. 

I've been looking around, and nearest I've found so far is a commercial equipment manufacturer. Thinking cheapest might be an off-the-shelf generic cap with custom printing on it, I'll ask them what MOQ makes sense and take it from there. I now realise when I said design, it was ambiguous. I was referring to the content on the cap, but the cap itself would be a standard shape/size.

 

I've also found guides on making your own from resin and... suffice to say I'm not interested enough to go that route.

 

Don't have access to a 3D printer, and that wouldn't help me with the design. So printing on blanks would probably be my best bet at a low cost.

 

Oh, one other possibility I found were "relegendable" caps. These have a removable transparent cover so you could print and put a design under that. I haven't found a cheap source so far. There is a US seller on ebay but the shipping is as much as for LMG merch.

[seon123]

This one is not for a single keycaps, but rather a set. 

http://www.maxkeyboard.com/ansi-layout-custom-color-cherry-mx-keycap-set.html

[porina]

6 hours ago, seon123 said:

This one is not for a single keycaps, but rather a set. 

http://www.maxkeyboard.com/ansi-layout-custom-color-cherry-mx-keycap-set.html

They do singles too  http://www.maxkeyboard.com/custom-art-icon-or-text-cherry-mx-keycaps.html

 

Will have a closer look at the site later.

[seon123]

14 minutes ago, porina said:

They do singles too  http://www.maxkeyboard.com/custom-art-icon-or-text-cherry-mx-keycaps.html

 

Will have a closer look at the site later.

I didn't realise they did that. I hadn't seen that before.

[d3adc3II]

Best resin keycaps are from vietnam artisan.

 

I can recommend a few of them, but the price wont be cheap, expec price starts from $100 per keycap

 

Here are some portfolio : 

 

https://imgur.com/a/P602PBu?fbclid=IwAR3m2Y9dm3fpVL_yxW39fJq40hSp3I4rW5DJ0-8acNGu4LvpQXRKRPUmzWQ

 

https://imgur.com/a/uOXSWlS?fbclid=IwAR0bDtXYV_I1DGZU22QKKx7jpnWAaHuvkbtrKP3z5dBrOiYO4e7ep7-7HoQ

 

I'm not involved in making this, just want to share a few teams that I bought keycaps from  . You have to contact them urself.

 

The links are from 2 diff teams.

 

 

 

[porina]

2 hours ago, d3adc3II said:

Best resin keycaps are from vietnam artisan.

That... isn't exactly what I'm looking for  

 

For now, printed off the shelf keycaps are the best balance between cost and availability. I found a place more locally that does custom printing so I'll give them a try:

https://mechbox.co.uk/products/custom-dye-sub-pbt-keycaps?variant=13426891522090