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Event Horizon

Black caps, one line of yellow-orange light.

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GMK CYL profile · ABS doubleshot · Made in Germany

The Base kit alone on a graphite 1800 with a polished band. The yellow-orange stripe runs in one straight line through the number row and on across the numpad.(open full size)
Graphite 1800 · Base only, numpad included

The story

A black hole's event horizon is the line light can't come back from. Here it's the number row, a single straight yellow-orange stripe across a black board.

Black alphas and mods with yellow-orange legends.

A diagram on black. Faint gray light rays come in from the right and bend around a black hole, a dark disk labeled r = 2M. Three fall in. One yellow-orange ray comes in at the labeled distance b = 3√3 M, swings around the hole and settles onto a yellow-orange circle labeled r = 3M, fading as it winds on.(open full size)

The critical ray

Aim light exactly 3√3 M off-center and it neither falls in nor gets away. It winds onto the photon sphere, one and a half times the horizon's radius.

Top view of the left half of a raw aluminum 65% with Black Hole. Mirrored yellow-orange letters on the alphas, Tab, Caps Lock, Shift and Control with faint dark gray legends, the yellow-orange number row and a yellow-orange No Esc.(open full size)

Black Hole mirrors the alphas

The far side of the horizon. The letters read as if from inside, and the mods drop to dark gray legends you can barely see.

Low close-up of the novelties on a slate TKL. A black hole with a ring on the Enter, a yellow-orange Blackspace, a stretched wave on the right Shift, 2GM/c² on the Control key and a Penrose diagram on the Alt. The Blackspace is black on a yellow-orange cap; the rest are yellow-orange on black.(open full size)

Diagrams from black-hole physics

A black hole on the Enter, Blackspace on the Backspace, a redshifted wave on the long Shift, a Penrose diagram on the Alt, and 2GM/c², the horizon's radius, on the Ctrl.

Three colors

Black and Melon, plus dark gray for Black Hole's legends and the dark spacebars.

Renders

Top view of GMK Event Horizon Base on a slate TKL against a cream backdrop. Black caps with yellow-orange legends, and a single yellow-orange stripe across the number row, Backspace and the Insert, Home and Page Up keys.(open full size)
Slate TKL, top view · Base
Top view of a black TKL with Black Hole. The alphas carry mirrored yellow-orange letters and the mods have faint dark gray legends; the function row and the yellow-orange stripe stay as they are.(open full size)
Black TKL, top view · Base + Black Hole
Close-up of the function-row novelties on a black 1800. A yellow-orange No Esc, small black-hole physics icons on F1 to F6, and the Good Egg key.(open full size)
Black 1800 · Base + Novelties, function row
Base with Alertless on a raw aluminum 65%. The number row is black with yellow-orange legends like the rest of the board.(open full size)
Raw aluminum 65% · Base + Alertless
The slate TKL with a Melon spacebar from the Spacebars kit, below black alphas with yellow-orange legends.(open full size)
Slate TKL · Base + Spacebars (Melon)
The Base kit alone on an HHKB, top view, with the yellow-orange stripe across the number row.(open full size)
HHKB, top view · Base only
Close-up of the yellow-orange legends on the black alphas, just below the yellow-orange number row.(open full size)
Close-up · Base legends

Renders by Good Egg. Every board is a 3D render, not a photo. Screen colors are close but not exact.

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The alphas mirror and the mods go dark. The function row and the stripe stay as they are.The stripe turns black, for an all-black board with yellow-orange legends.Art keys in place, from No Esc and the function-row icons to the black hole on the Enter. The dim icon on F7 is the dark gray one, for Black Hole builds.The Melon 7u spacebar. The dark gray one is in the kit too.

The kits

Novelties

Six of the 22. Most come straight out of the textbook.

The Event Horizon base-kit box: a black lid with gray light rays bending around a black hole and one yellow-orange ray winding onto a ring, with EVENT HORIZON in yellow-orange letters, the second O drawn as a thin ring. The front strip carries the name and Good Egg beside GMK's logos.(open full size)

The box

The base kit's GMK box carries the ray-tracing plate on its lid, with the wordmark in yellow-orange below it.

Where it's at

  1. Design (current step)
  2. Interest check
  3. Group buy
  4. Making & shipping

Questions

Where is Event Horizon now?

It's in design. The interest check opens on communikeys soon, and the answers there decide what goes to the group buy. Join the email list to hear when it opens.

Will it fit my board?

Base alone covers 60% to full size and 1800, plus Tsangan and WKL bottom rows. It also has the ISO Enter, 1.25u Shift and extra ISO keys, with US legends, the 6u spacebar for HHKB and the split spacebars for Alice and other ergo boards, so no add-on is needed to finish a board. On purpose, it doesn't cover 40% boards or UK and German ISO legends.

Why GMK?

GMK's doubleshot ABS keys have legends molded in a second color of plastic, so they never wear off. GMK has matched every color in this set before.

Why are Black Hole's legends so faint?

Black Hole is the far side of the horizon, where light doesn't get out. Its mods have dark gray legends on black, so they read best in good light.

What if a kit doesn't sell enough?

Each kit needs a minimum number of orders in the group buy. A kit that misses it isn't made, and it comes off your order. The interest check itself is a free poll; no money changes hands.

When will prices and dates be set?

After the interest check, once the kits are final and GMK and the vendors confirm a slot. Join the email list to hear first.

How do I reach you?

Email [email protected]. Kevin reads every message.