My first effort at hand-painting keycaps. I got a basic boring blank set with a Planck keyboard and thought I would spruce them up. A dirty ombre effect from burgundy to cerise with rose lettering.
I don’t fancy its chances under use, but a few layers of gloss polyurethane might be the ticket
I’ve had ok luck with Montana spray paint- seems to hold up ok in the short term, but hard to know.
I used old-school dry transfer letters for the legends.
I’d love to see them on your board.
Krylon 1311 does well for a clear coat on my minis including the metal ones which don’t take dings as well as the plastic does. Though they don’t take quite the amount of fingerpoken keyboards do.
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This is one of the products commonly suggested for restoring the matte finish to ThinkPad keyboards when they get worn and shiny.
In Rob’s case he might do better with a genuine (nitrocellulose) laquer, like Deft in satin. It dries completely in hal an hour, so you can lay down a lot of coats in an afternoon.
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