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Chinese stuff/Electronic and computer goods/Keycaps

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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.

Single Color

NPKC

Mixed Color

White Alphanumeric

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

Olivette

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

Miami

1976

Rainbow

EnjoyPBT

Gateron Blanks

Individual caps

RGBY Modifiers

CMYW Modifiers

Single caps

Accessories

Topre-to-MX Stem Adapters

Keycap pullers