Well it's not as though a brown can't thock. Stick a 3mm acrylic plate on most builds and job done.

What color bottom did you go with?

ortho guud!! love the pastel colors

It's at least worth giving it a shot.
Worst case, you don't like it, or can't get used to it, and you have to put it back afterwards.

Here's the sister board to that one, I designed for home use.
The numpad is pushed all the way over to the right on that one because that's where it's most comfortable for me, while gaming.

It's funny though, because I've gotten so used to my work board that having to move my hand over four whole keys, to use the numpad, is annoying to me now.
I'm actually working on altering my layout, at the moment.
I want to make my home board a split alpha, like yours, so I can avoid that (relatively minor) hand movement.

https://preview.redd.it/8wpmocullepa1.jpeg?width=1226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=6c75d3962902cf08954585916ecfdc9f3de35939

That's defo a high IQ layout!

I would do some shady things to get my hands on one of those old Sharp calculators. I loathe using the cheap-o Staples (or whoever) calculators with the membranes that offices always provide.

Wow, this is actually really cool and something I might want to mess around with. Definitely going to hop on the configurator tonight and give it a try!

It's simple, if you go ortho.
You're wasting a lot of real estate, if you're using a normal keyboard.

You should try moving the numpad, so that it overlaps the alphas, at their home position.
Having it overlap like that makes it so you can use the numpad, during normal typing, without having to move either hand from its home position.

In those instances where you are moving your right hand to the numpad, I simply press down with my left thumb, to bring the numpad to my right hand.
This is especially noticeable when you are typing something like an address, where you switch back and forth quickly, between numbers and alphas.

It would also leave all those keys down the middle available for other functions, including a proper "Inverted T" arrow cluster, usable by either hand.

Here's my version of your board.
Mine's a custom hand-wire, so I was able to properly lay out the entire numpad, but the same idea works fine on a full ortho, like yours.

https://preview.redd.it/gorr9d3y7epa1.jpeg?width=1208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=5a7fdac464b5d6d2e7539ecb03f587fa16e7de94

At least they're not Gateron blues.

It's a knife to the chest but it will be worth it. These are such cool pieces. Idc how long it takes for it to arrive to me.

I still can't quite comprehend how they fit an entire numpad in the middle of a 60% case.

The only time I did I got a warped one. Curred me for good

Thanks!

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IDOBAO ID75v3 with stock Gateron Oil King switches and DSA Magic Girl keycaps by Mintlodica. Not quite a split board, but ticks the rest of my boxes. This is still quite compact on my desk but allows for access to a numpad and giving my hands a little distance from each other. This keyboard is the heaviest one I have owned, just feels solid. The oil kings are fantastic out of the box, and I wanted a set of cute caps - Magic Girl fit the bill perfectly. I don't think anything will be replacing this on my desk any time soon. Though I could use a 40% hotswap ortho wireless for travel...

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yeah so that tends to happen bc the company that ran the GB or sole proprietor cannot afford to add any overhead beyond the extras that are ordered in the case they need to replace units. So usually there are very few in stock "extras" or none at all. There are quite a few companies like Novelkeys, cannonkeys, and omnitype that usually order enough to have in stock extras once they deliver.. sometimes that could take up to 2-3 years on the longer end of things. I will say I know for a fact that Novelkeys is a vendor that puts up their money first to get the order submit and any extra they take in from Group buy they double down with so there are that many extras available after the fact.. so in that case it feels like more of a preorder than a group buy.. and there is a difference.

Hopefully im nuancing this enough, and its not hella confusing. Happy to help answer more questions. There is def validity to ur concerns, and others feel the same. You just have to go with trusted vendors and sources.

Ah, alright! Thanks for the info.

I've noticed a lot of products that start as a GB never make it to "in stock"... You can either buy it preproduction or not at all. Why is this? I'm the type of person who's wary of scams and I don't want to give someone my money until it's ready to be shipped, so I end up not being able to get most of the stuff I'm really interested in with keyboards.

GB = group buy. A group buy is where people pool their money early on for a lower rate than what the product will be sold at after it’s produced. This is most common here in the keyboard hobby for GMK keycaps and keyboards.

What's GB?

Gr8 lol at this point, I just want it since I don’t even remember what it looks like and I’ve had the ikki for too long

Never tried the sonnet in person but I do agree the bubble indeed feels and sounds awesome.

You should join the discord for that if you haven't then, the final colors are approved and they're definitely more saturated than the renders