PBS MV Classic
Description
Smells like beige.
PBS MV Classic by Max Voltar.
The timelessly elegant legends incorporate Nordic, German, and UK sublegends, while the modifiers feature a thoughtfully selected range of colored function sublegends where appropriate. Enhancing the retro aesthetic, the entire bottom row is convex, drawing inspiration from Apple’s iconic M0110 and M0110A keyboards. Don’t knock it until you tried it!
Classic is available in two distinct kits: a regular base kit ($80) supporting common layouts (from HHKB to 1800 and everything in between), and the Ortho & 40’s ($75) kit caters to the more unconventional (and intensely original) exotic layouts, including the funky QAZ.
Proxies
US - CannonKeys
EU - Oblotzky Industries
KR - Swagkeys
UK - Prototypist
SG - iLumkb
CN - zFrontier
JP - Yusha Kobo
OC - Keebz N Cables
Keycap Specs
• Keycap Profile - PBS
• Manufacturer - Keyreative
• Profile Designer - Matt3o
• Keycap Material - PBT, dyesub legends where applicable
• Keycap Thickness - 1.5mm
PBS Profile
Introducing PBS, a new uniform keycap profile designed by Matt3o and brought to you by CannonKeys and Keyreative.
About the profile
PBS, short for "Penguin Belly Slide", is a uniform keycap profile- every row has the same height.
PBS uses a combination of a cylindrical front and back with a spherical top scoop. The result is a wide scooped contact area at the top, which enables a comfy and ergonomic typing experience.
Want to learn more? Check out the blog post below!
Specs
- PBT
- 1.5mm thick blanks
- Dyesub and reverse dyesub
- Concave and convex available
- Massive layout support
- Concave max height of 7.43mm
- Convex max height of 7.91mm
Customer Reviews
Wasn't sure how I'd feel about PBS as a long time DSA user, but these keycaps delivered! The shape is super comfortable to type on and gently guides your fingers to the centers of the keycaps. The quality is excellent as well, much thicker plastic than the drop XDA set I had previously which were quite thin. They sound just as good as my DSA caps. The color and design on these is excellent too! Overall I'm very satisfied.
It's beige, but quirky. The low-profile finger hugs are basically a paradox but somehow they work! I love it.
First touched pbs on release of blank keycaps, it's perfect. And even before that was waiting for mv classic for two years. Only regret is that I took only regular kit, ortho might be a big plus.
Had an incorrect profile on one keycap (convex vs concave) and there are issues with some of the 2U. And I know both of those because cannon keys and keyreative were forward and informed us and fixing it.
PBS continues to be my profile of choice for Ortho and ergonomic boards!
I have tried number of different profile keycap sets and this is, probably, the best sounding and best feeling keycaps sets that I have tried that are this lower, level profile. I say lower because this keycap design will not work with low profile keyboards, at least, the spacebar will bottom out on low profile keyboards. The only reason that it did not get 5 stars were some initial issues with the 2U, but that's probably going to be 5 stars for any subsequent sets and they're planning on fixing the issues that happened with the initial set. This is my second PBS set (I also have BoB) and I am planning on ordering Galaxy as well. I highly recommend this set if you want a lower, level keycap set and you like the Dye Sub PBT deeper sound profile keycaps.
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