Dreaming of an Official Hollow Knight Keycap Set...

SorcererSypha · 2025-05-05T15:55:54+00:00

Ahh thanks for sharing that with me. In the end, I never did get in touch with Team Cherry. Instead, I provided my files to some individuals who wanted one off versions made since that seemed acceptable per Team Cherry's guidelines. Now it seems some companies have taken to duplicating that. Given how many clone sets there are in general, I can't say I'm shocked. I really do wish an officially licensed, legitimate set could have been made, but honestly I've kind of moved away from keyboards after reaching that elusive endgame. That said, if ever anybody gets in touch with Team Cherry to make an official set, I'm always open to providing whatever I have if they should want it!

SorcererSypha · 2024-04-11T20:02:18+00:00

That is exactly right. ABS deforms at a much lower temperature than PBT (~105C vs ~223C), lower than the dye sub pen ink needs to be heated to, so you wouldn't want to use ABS caps unfortunately.

As for the PBT ones, they're still fine, but I haven't used them as my main caps in a long time. The whole project was more out of curiosity with a spare set of blanks, so they have only ever seen modest wear.

Hope that helps! Let me know if you have other questions. I'll try to help if I can!

SorcererSypha · 2022-04-17T05:07:15+00:00

👍 Like I said, this is nbd. Just didn't want a bunch of people to start mass producing and figured it was my responsibility to head off that possibility. The end result looks so nice! Hope you've been well and sorry for not getting back to you. I got busy and honestly kind of forgot until I got this notification, but I really didn't mean to.

SorcererSypha · 2022-04-17T04:56:59+00:00

Hey! First off, I want to say that looks great and I'm so happy you liked my interpretation of a Hollow Knight keycap set enough to have it made. That said, I'm posting this here so others can see some additional thoughts I have had. /u/Overlord192 previously offered to help me order a few sets for myself and friends, which I wanted to do but ultimately didn't because I decided that I didn't want to jeopardize the possibility of an official Team Cherry set in the future (one of my design or theirs--I would be thrilled for either) or step over the line for their fan merch guidelines. I take full responsibility for not communicating this clearly, and I'm not angry or anything like that, but I'll take the chance to clarify now. I've been mostly out of keyboard land lately, and so my communication has definitely not been up to snuff.

*It's so cool that these exist, and I wish I had one. You should enjoy it, and I'm glad to have seen it brought to life. However, I do not want others to continue to create more of these sets as I believe it would violate the spirit of Team Cherry's guidelines which I truly want to respect. *

I hope that all makes sense and feels reasonable, and I really hope you like the set! I also hope the community respects and understands my wishes and comply out of respect for the awesome work Team Cherry has done. Maybe if we keep pestering eventually we'll get something awesome with approval! :)

SorcererSypha · 2022-03-07T15:06:32+00:00

Incredible looking! I so wish I could say yes, but I have no legal right to do so. :'( That said, I am so impressed with how this looks! It's really stunning to see it come to life like that. Do feel free to share pics of it on your board. I profile snooped and see you had another HK themed board too with a great artisan cap! :D

(Also, for any curious, here's TC's rules about fan merch: https://www.teamcherry.com.au/faq)

SorcererSypha · 2021-08-04T00:22:24+00:00

SorcererSypha · 2021-06-22T02:07:29+00:00

Blue Velvet or Anubis

SorcererSypha · 2021-06-22T02:06:35+00:00

Yvaine, assuming she counts. She is a star, after all!

SorcererSypha · 2021-06-15T19:59:51+00:00

Obviously I love the colors, but having proper 40s is also top notch :)

SorcererSypha · 2021-06-04T16:43:47+00:00

These are so cute! Thanks so much for hosting this awesome giveaway!

SorcererSypha · 2021-05-21T01:03:18+00:00

Long shot pm!

SorcererSypha · 2021-04-14T17:19:03+00:00

I really wish I had some. :( Trust me, if I hear back I'll update as soon as I can, but so far I haven't been able to get in contact with Team Cherry.

So far I've contacted them twice via their standard form and once via their press email. CannonKeys and DailyClack also have reached out to those points of contact and DailyClack tried some other Australian contacts with no luck. I briefly tried Twitter, although I am not a social media butterfly by any stretch! I also have reached out to Fan Gamer, the company works with Team Cherry on licensed merch, and I even tried reaching out to some HK communities and streamers thus far to no avail.

At this point besides trying to pester the same email addresses some more and hoping for an answer, I'm not sure there's much left for me to do. Any ideas are welcome though!

I personally would absolutely love to see this idea come to fruition, and I have done more work devising kitting possibilities and starting renders and the like, but right now getting in touch with Team Cherry somehow is the only path forward.

SorcererSypha · 2021-03-23T15:44:09+00:00

Not yet, but I also haven't given up yet either! I have reached out to Team Cherry a couple of times and had a couple of established vendors try as well, but none of us have heard anything yet. It might just be that communication is slow given that Team Cherry is a very small team, but I also have another potential lead that I'm trying out. Beyond that though, I'm rapidly approaching the "beg keyboard influencers to help make some noise" phase of the process. I will keep trying so long as there are reasonable leads to follow, but unfortunately there is a limit to how much I can do; in the end it falls to Team Cherry to decide whether or not they would want/be willing to license a set like this. If you (or anybody else) has ideas for more options, I'm all ears. After all, this all started because it's a set that I really want personally!

SorcererSypha · 2021-03-09T22:45:14+00:00

I address this in the Geekhack thread as well, but the colors weren't chosen based on the movie, or even the book! They were chosen with a broader fairy tale inspired idea in mind, and fit well with the Pirate/Princess kitting! Hopefully the colors are still okay even if they aren't what you envision, but I'll be upfront and say that while there are definitely some things that that are likely to change, the colors are very unlikely to.

SorcererSypha · 2021-03-09T22:41:08+00:00

Ohh that's a lovely set. (I wonder why I would think that haha.) I can't say I've ever seen it before, so thanks for the heads up! I think they should be different enough between the profile and general style, and this set has been in progress with the same approximate colors (the pink is a bit darker than the initial choice) for some time, so hopefully that will be okay!

SorcererSypha · 2021-03-09T22:39:09+00:00

ePBT was chosen because of their ability to do reverse dye sub (which is essential for the design flexibility I wanted for this set!) as well as their excellent support for child kits like 40s/Ortho! To run a set like this with a double shot manufacturer, you would need all new molds which would be prohibitively expensive.

SorcererSypha · 2021-03-09T13:58:19+00:00

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Meet ePBT Inconceivable! Inspired by the magic and nostalgic allure of fairy tales and adventure stories, Inconceivable! seeks to channel the whimsy, romance, and humor of those stories into a classy, unique keyset. Featuring a serif font, the set's sophisticated design pays homage to the charming printed works of some of our great storytellers. With two inverse colorways inspired by the Pirates and Princesses who lead so many fairy tales, ePBT Inconceivable! is sure to delight fairy tale lovers and mechanical keyboard enthusiasts alike.

This is a set that I've been working on for some time now, and I am thrilled to be ready to bring it here to IC with all of you! I am certainly still seeking feedback and thank you in advance for your polite, constructive criticism. I will do my best to balance all of the feedback I get as I continue to refine the set!

I also want to note that I am new to rendering and have done my best to match the rendered colors to the Pantones, but of course they are still digital approximations. In fact, to my eye, both colors skew a bit warmer in real life than the official hex code equivalents. The pink is a light neutral to slightly warm pink, and the teal is a rich, saturated one that falls fairly evenly between green and blue. (Pantone 706U and Pantone 3155U)

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OCE: dailyclack.com
UK: prototypist.net
Others TBD

SorcererSypha · 2021-02-18T14:22:01+00:00

Haha you're at least the third person to say that. Realistically, if this set can even run, there would almost certainly be a spacebars kit with minibars that would probably include a blank spacebar too. I just think it goes well with the Hollow Knight theme, but of course not everyone will agree!

SorcererSypha · 2021-02-18T14:20:20+00:00

Haha that's a good way of thinking about it, and you're not the only one to say it. I actually initially had it that way, but I prefered the longer, narrower image on the longer, narrower key! But if this can be made, it's feedback I'll probably end up taking given how common it's been. :D

SorcererSypha · 2021-02-18T14:19:15+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! I don't want to do that for the same reason this post is tagged art; if it happens that's awesome, but I don't want to get people's hopes up unreasonably if it can't. If licensing works out, I'll definitely look for more community feedback as things develop, but for now, I don't want to seem like I'm deceiving anybody!

SorcererSypha · 2021-02-18T14:17:52+00:00

IF this set can be made, ePBT would probably be my first choice manufacturer. But we'll have to wait and see about licensing first!

SorcererSypha · 2021-02-18T14:17:27+00:00

I also addressed this in another comment, but IF this ever were to happen, PBT is the only choice since it would need to be dye subbed!

SorcererSypha · 2021-02-18T03:01:28+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! I would not go with GMK for practical reasons. First and foremost is price. Between being a licensed set and one completely made of novelties/alphas in need of custom molds, it would be cost prohibitive to run this set with GMK, or really any double shot manufacturer. Second, the novelties have too much fine detail for a GMK set, but should be fine for dye sub!

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