Paul - let's design a keyboard that very nearly meets your impossibly fucking high standards.
Here's the deal: pick what you want, I'll order the parts and build it. No research necessary - every choice is one tap, with a simple explanation and an optional rabbit-hole.
Takes about 5–10 minutes · 13 decisions · no account required
Make Decisions
Run through the questions, and decide exactly how you want your shit set up.
Go Down the Rabbit Hole
Every topic has a guide to the pros and cons of each option. Skim through it or go ham and spend three weeks determining the ideal specific gravity of an "enter" key, I don't care.
Receive Keyboard
You design it, I build it. Send the spec and it will magically arrive at some future date.
Everything you'll decide
The thirteen choices that define a keyboard. Tap any to read the guide.
Layout & size
The footprint, and which keys make the cut.
Key arrangement
How the keys line up under your fingers.
Switch feel
The single biggest driver of how typing feels and sounds.
Hotswap or soldered
Can switches be swapped without a soldering iron?
Keycap profile
The shape and height of the keys.
Keycap material & legends
What the caps are made of and how the letters are made.
Case material
Weight, sound, price and that premium feel.
Mounting style
How the internals attach to the case — the "bounce".
Lighting
From none at all to a full RGB light show.
Connectivity
Wired, wireless, or the best of both.
Controller chip
The microcontroller — the keyboard's brain.
Firmware & software
How keys are remapped, with macros and layers.
Sound & dampening
Tuning the acoustics — from hollow to deep "thock".