Differences between ANSI and ISO

[x Princess Leliana x]

I'm not referring to the labels on the keys themselves, that's obvious. But what specific keys are different, I use an ISO board, and have all but given up searching for ISO keycap sets, so if I were to buy an ANSI layout one, what keys would I NOT be able to use. I've found this, https://deskthority.net/wiki/ANSI_vs_ISO that indicates its only four keys i couldn't use, are there any others?

[minibois]

holding my ANSI and ISO keyboard next to each other, I can say the difference is in:

- The right Enter and thus also the placement of backslash.

- The left shit (and lack of backslash on the left on ANSI)

- The delete key sign is smaller on my ANSI keyboard, but this could be just these two keyboards compared..

 

Because keep in mind, not all keyboards are made equally. Short backspace button, different shaped F-keys and other weird things like those sometimes appear on keyboards.

Best bet is looking online at keycap sets and than evaluating what will and will not fit. Or make a picture of your keyboard and send it to their support (where you are buying the keycaps).

A few days ago I bought a keycap set and the website I got it from kindly had a graph of their set, keys that were not the standard square letter size were marked (and they actually said how much bigger they were)

[NumLock21]

The key cap labels will be off, like you won't have the Euro or British Pound sign, just the American $ sign. So you will need to memorize where each keys are for your ISO layout.

[x Princess Leliana x]

1 minute ago, Minibois said:

holding my ANSI and ISO keyboard next to each other, I can say the difference is in:

- The right Enter and thus also the placement of backslash.

- The left shit (and lack of backslash on the left on ANSI)

- The delete key sign is smaller on my ANSI keyboard, but this could be just these two keyboards compared..

 

Because keep in mind, not all keyboards are made equally. Short backspace button, different shaped F-keys and other weird things like those sometimes appear on keyboards.

Best bet is looking online at keycap sets and than evaluating what will and will not fit. Or make a picture of your keyboard and send it to their support (where you are buying the keycaps).

A few days ago I bought a keycap set and the website I got it from kindly had a graph of their set, keys that were not the standard square letter size were marked (and they actually said how much bigger they were)

Thank you very much. Now I just need to find a blank set of rainbow keycaps, I wish I could get them in UK layout, but such a thing does not exist :c

[minibois]

20 minutes ago, fordaov3rlord said:

Thank you very much. Now I just need to find a blank set of rainbow keycaps, I wish I could get them in UK layout, but such a thing does not exist :c

Just different color every row of keys or do you actually want a gradient on each keycap?

[x Princess Leliana x]

30 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

The key cap labels will be off, like you won't have the Euro or British Pound sign, just the American $ sign. So you will need to memorize where each keys are for your ISO layout.

I' be getting blanks.

 

9 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Just different color every row of keys or do you actually want a gradient on each keycap?

I'm looking for gradients, but all the sets I find are $30 shipping and 30 days delivery time, which is unnaceptable.

[x Princess Leliana x]

12 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Just different color every row of keys or do you actually want a gradient on each keycap?

Actually I've got a new plan I think, maybe you can help. I'm going to get the central keys and numpad (if applicable, not necessary) in a rainbow gradient, then all the surrounding keys (numbers, caps lock, enter, etc) I'll get in white/silver. 

[minibois]

2 minutes ago, fordaov3rlord said:

Actually I've got a new plan I think, maybe you can help. I'm going to get the central keys and numpad (if applicable, not necessary) in a rainbow gradient, then all the surrounding keys (numbers, caps lock, enter, etc) I'll get in white/silver. 

If you have an RGB keyboard, you could also just get translucent keycaps and just set your lighting to whatever you want.

But otherwise some plan like that might cut down the costs. You could also contact the website to see if they can do anything about the shipping and give a better estimate on when it will be delivered (as sometimes they just say 30 days shipping as a placeholder, because they don't know when stuff will be available again to them)

 

[x Princess Leliana x]

1 minute ago, Minibois said:

If you have an RGB keyboard, you could also just get translucent keycaps and just set your lighting to whatever you want.

But otherwise some plan like that might cut down the costs. You could also contact the website to see if they can do anything about the shipping and give a better estimate on when it will be delivered (as sometimes they just say 30 days shipping as a placeholder, because they don't know when stuff will be available again to them)

 

K95 standard. No RGB