First prodcution samples of Pandora keymat

mfk · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 8:16 am

Hi all,

You can check our official blog for the brand new pictures. More to come later!

quartercast · **Joined:** Tue May 05, 2009 9:26 am **Posts:** 6

Nice... Why is the "Y" in QWERTY not baseline aligned to the rest of the letters?

Gruso · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:10 pm **Posts:** 208

Weeee!

Mithrildor · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:54 pm **Posts:** 101

Awesome blog update. Too bad it isnt a keyboard with the shiny coating, I still like it anyway.

polossatik · **Joined:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:59 pm **Posts:** 20

I would then expect the N to be raised also.

Y/N?

Mithrildor · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:54 pm **Posts:** 101

2 Questions:
-Why is the Y so high (not that its a big problem for me)
-How can switch to Fn Lock (shift + Fn?)

joa · **Joined:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:00 am **Posts:** 56

what a pleasant surprise!!

quartercast · **Joined:** Tue May 05, 2009 9:26 am **Posts:** 6

polossatik wrote:

I would then expect the N to be raised also.

Y/N?

Hahaha, true dat

shaun199three · **Joined:** Mon May 04, 2009 8:10 am **Posts:** 6

quartercast wrote:

Nice... Why is the "Y" in QWERTY not baseline aligned to the rest of the letters?

I hope the open pandora team don't do anything about this because I don't want another delay.

joa · **Joined:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:00 am **Posts:** 56

shaun199three wrote:

quartercast wrote:

Nice... Why is the "Y" in QWERTY not baseline aligned to the rest of the letters?

I hope the open pandora team don't do anything about this because I don't want another delay.

I doubt that it would cause any delays - These are production samples after all.

renegadechic · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:18 pm **Posts:** 13

i think the D looks slightly out of position too.

still, they look fantastic

lingenfr · **Joined:** Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:54 pm **Posts:** 77

I thought the Pandora logo was going to be a spinning hologram?

Good show.

bronek · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 11:09 am

EvilDragon - well done and thanks for your work on this! I like the layout a lot

Hells_Dark · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 11:15 am

Great.

I just want my pandora, i don't care about the keyboard layout anymore ^^'

But it looks very nice

polyroy · **Joined:** Tue May 05, 2009 12:13 pm **Posts:** 2

What seems to have gone wrong here is that they delivered the keyboard symbols cropped to the image inside, instead of having a consistent size. So, when you center each image on the center of the key, those with low heights (such as Y_) are offset to the center (as opposed to U*v for example). You can see this for almost every symbol, for example with G= and H`.

Too bad, but hey, this is why they sample!

EvilDragon · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:33 pm **Posts:** 53

Hm, true, the Y is higher than it should.
Gotta check it out.

Won't delay anything, as it doesn't affect the mould

borgqueenx · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 12:53 pm

evildragon, will the keymat have transparant stickers on each buttons, just like on laptops, so the black or other ink(letters) wont fade away after a while?

Gruso · **Joined:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:10 pm **Posts:** 208

The final version will have a hard shell on top so the letters won't wear off. Like this:

http://openpandora.wordpress.com/2009/0 ... ad-finish/

hedwards · **Joined:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:12 am **Posts:** 24

EvilDragon wrote:

Hm, true, the Y is higher than it should.
Gotta check it out.

Won't delay anything, as it doesn't affect the mould

OK, if you're going to correct them, I now want one of the limited edition messed up font keypads.

bzar · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 1:48 pm

Great news! Should the "Create the keymat mould (takes 20 - 25 days)" in the road map be striked out?

EDIT: No it shouldn't. Those are samples so the mould isn't ready yet, right?

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