PBTfans 1984 Keycap Set - Vintage Rainbow Homage with Hi-Fi PBT
Specs:
- Material: PBT blended with glass microshperes
- Peofile: Cherry
- Thickness: 1.3mm
- Surface Texture: Soft, skin-like
- Production Method: Dye-sub
The PBTfans 1984 keycap set reaches back to the rainbow era of personal computing - the year a now famous Super Bowl ad promised that 1984 wouldn't be like 1984. This Cherry-profile PBT set wraps that aesthetic onto a modern keyboard: warm-gray alphas, soft black mods, and a six-colour rainbow stripe across the numrow to anchor the period look.
What makes it more than an aesthetic set is the material. PBTfans built these caps in PBT blended with glass microspheres - a different formulation from standard PBT that produces a clearer, crisper, Hi-Fi keystroke sound. The surface picks up a soft, skin-like texture you can feel from the first press, distinctly different from PBTfans' dual-shot caps. Wall thickness sits at approximately 1.3mm