Chinese stuff/Electronic and computer goods/Keycaps

Note: Under construction. Feel free to help out.

This article is an effort to catalogue all the decent keycaps you can find on Chinese shopping sites. Whether the keycaps are Chinese in origin or not, if you can buy it from China, it belongs here.

For general Chinese mechanical keyboard shopping advice, see Chink shit general/Electronic and computer goods#Mechanical Keyboards.

Buying

Generally, most of the keycaps you find across the different stores on AliExpress all come from the same manufacturer, so that shouldn't be anything to worry about. Most of the the 20-40 USD PBT keycaps you find from Chinese stores can be assumed to be made by NPKC, which is extremely reasonable quality for the price you're paying.

Stores to keep an eye on are Shenzhen YMD, KBDFans, Shenzhen E Sali and EZ MANDARIN SHOPPERS. The guy from Shenzhen YMD speaks better English than most Ali sellers and is pretty quick to respond in comparison. KBDFans is helpful in customer service too.

Mixed Color

Dolch

A Dolch PBT keycap set from AliExpress on a 60% keyboard. Presumably manufactured by NPKC.

Type	PBT
Legends	Top-printed, Side-printed, Blank
Profile	OEM
Stem type	MX
Thickness	1.5mm
Legend backlight support	No
Backlight bleed	Only on red Esc key; can be fixed with electrical tape
In production	Yes

Purchasing

• KBDFans Store on AliExpress (Side-printed, Blank) (ANSI)
• Shenzhen YMD on AliExpress (Top-printed, Side-printed, Blank) (ANSI, ISO)
• KeyboardParadise (Taiwanese, expensive boards, sells Tai-hao Double-shot ABS sets through Massdrop, otherwise on boards only)

Olivette

Type	Doubleshot ABS
Legends	Top-printed
Profile	Unknown
Stem type	MX
Thickness	Unknown
Legend backlight support	No
Backlight bleed	Unknown
In production	Yes

• KeyboardParadise (Taiwanese, expensive boards, sells Tai-hao Double-shot ABS sets through Massdrop, otherwise on boards only)