A mechanical keyboard. First batch.

Try it before it exists.

This is the whole board, drawn in your browser. Type on your own keys or tap these. Pick a switch, turn the knob, listen. Nothing here is a photograph.

Switch Linear Tactile Clicky

Keycaps Graphite Bone Signal

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Keys pressed: 0
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Volume: 70%

Switches

Three ways down.

KEY-01 ships with one of three switches, and the sockets are hot-swap, so the choice is not permanent. Hold the switch below to see what each one does on the way down.

Linear Nothing in the way. The stem slides straight down on the spring and bottoms out with a soft thud. For people who type fast and late. quiet · smooth · no bump Tactile A small bump partway down, where the leg on the stem pushes past the leaf. You feel the keystroke register without needing to hear it. bump · muted · no click Clicky A loose collar on the stem snaps against the housing. You feel the bump and hear it, down and up. Not for shared rooms. bump · loud · two clicks

Layout

Eighty-three keys and a knob.

A 75% layout keeps the function row and the arrow cluster and drops the number pad, so your mouse hand does not have to travel. The knob in the corner is volume on the page, and volume on the board.

Hot-swap sockets Every key takes any MX-style switch. Change your mind without a soldering iron.
Gasket mount The plate floats on soft strips instead of screws, so the whole board gives a little when you bottom out.
The knob Turn it with the scroll wheel or drag it. Click it to mute. It has a detent for every step.
USB-C, both ways Wired, with a cable that unplugs from the board. No batteries to wear out, nothing to pair.
Thick PBT keycaps Keycaps that do not go shiny. Legends are in the plastic, not printed on it.
Machined aluminium case One piece, cut from a block, in the same grey as the page you are reading.

Reserve

Hear about the first batch.

Leave an address and we will write once, when KEY-01 is ready to order. Nothing else.