Do I Need to Lube My Keyboard Switches?
Figure 1: Sometime around here is a good time to ask that question... If you’re new to the mechanical keyboard hobby, I have no doubt that planning your first keyboard build is a bit of a daunting task. To be entirely honest with you, it’s only a tiny bit less daunting for your second or even third keyboard builds should you stay around a little while longer. You’ve got the keyboard itself to worry about, stabilizers, keycaps, and even switches on top of all of the intangible marks you want your dream keyboard to hit. Switches are especially daunting right out of the gate as there’s just so many options out there to pick from – each with their own unique specifications, manufacturers, and more. Yet, in spite of all of these differences between switches, time and time again I find people always asking about lubing switches as one of their chief concerns when it comes to picking some up. With countless numbers of content creators talking about lubing switches, its no...
Apr 17, 2024
I imagine the caps will look great with GMK Forge. There may be a bit of orange HUE, but just going off the photo, the cap appears 100% red... Not Orange. If you actually take samples of the image and measure the colors, there are parts with codes like:
#D60019
Note that means 0 green which means NO YELLOW.
On the parts that are "orange" the codes are like:
#FC3533 or #F2421C
The thing is that means there is as much blue as there is green.... the reason... its a highlight so the actual color being added is the white of a reflection.
You cannot just pretend a photo is some magic flat representation of color. You are seeing a 3d object in 2d... there are highlights and lowlights.
A better image to look at the color would be the spacebars:
There is absolutely a bit of orange hue just like I said before, but it is absolutely a shade of red.