In fact Dbrand’s first novelty keycaps embody a ‘fuck off’ key

Love or hate its irreverent branding, it’s important to give props to Dbrand for its consistency. The corporate finest identified for its vary of skins and instances for client tech devices is releasing its mechanical keyboard keycaps right this moment, and so they’re remarkably on-brand.

The Pyramid keycap is a sharp escape key that the corporate says stabs whoever presses it (“legal professionals suggested that we soften the tip a bit of bit, however relaxation assured you’re by no means multiple agency key press away from drawing blood”) and a substitute enter key known as The Enter that merely reads “fuck off.”

Reasonably than full keycap units which might be designed to interchange all of the keys on a keyboard, these novelty keycaps are designed to only substitute a few keys. The corporate says they’re designed to pair with any GMK set, which implies they need to work with some other keycaps that use the frequent Cherry profile.

Each are made utterly of steel and can be found in a alternative of three colours; black, naked steel (aka silver), and neochrome . The Pyramid escape key additionally has cutouts designed to let the keyboard’s RGB lighting shine by way of, with holes on each its higher and decrease sides to work with north- and south-facing swap orientations. 

Apparently, relatively than promoting the keycaps immediately prefer it does with most of its different merchandise, Dbrand is distributing them by way of keyboard specialist retailer NovelKeys. The Pyramid and The Enter can be found right this moment for $60 and $40, respectively. 

Disclosure: The Verge just lately collaborated with Dbrand on a sequence of skins and instances.