Information about mechanical keyboards

1. MECHANICAL KEYBOARDS
author: toan vu

2. • What is mechanical keyboard?
• Key Switches
• Layouts
• Keycaps
• Brands

3. WHAT IS MECHANICAL
KEYBOARD?
• A physical keyboard that uses an individual spring
and switch for each key.
• Recreate the experience of typing on a typewriter
• There are many keyboard types here
• Rubber dome keyboards represent over 90% of
keyboards in use today and provide an inexpensive but
dissatisfying feel and typing experience
• Mechanical keyboards simply feel better than rubber
dome keyboards. Check here for the look and feel

4. KEY SWITCHES
1. Cherry MX
2. Gateron
3. Greetech
4. Kailh
5. …

5. KEY SWITCHES
CHERRY MX
experience cherry mx switches

6. LAYOUTS
101-key layout
Layout on older American keyboards, without the Windows and Menu keys. Original Model Ms defined this layout
105-key layout
The 105th key is the distinct Alt-Gr found on European (ISO) keyboards, replacing the right-hand Alt. It’s mainly used
for composing accented letters not found in ASCII.

7. LAYOUTS
104-key layout
What a modern American (ANSI) PC keyboard looks like
- with right and left Windows keys and a context-menu
key.

8. LAYOUTS
Tenkeyless
A keyboard with most of a standard PC 104-key layout (including
function and arrow keys) but the numeric keypad and its duplicate
function keys lopped off.

9. LAYOUTS
75%
75% is the common name given to keyboards that have a compact
layout, roughly 70 to 75% of the width of a full-size keyboard, but retain
the F key row at the top.

10. LAYOUTS
60%
60% is perhaps the most common layout after full-size andTKL.As well as
ditching the number pad, 60% keyboards also lack a F key row at the top and
the navigational cluster on the right — you just get the alphanumeric zone.

11. LAYOUTS
40%
40% keyboards are generally thought of
as the smallest usable layout. 40%
keyboards ditch the number row, leaving
just the letters and the modifiers… and
due to the small number of physical
keys, there are multiple layers accessible
via special keys.
Tenkey (number pad)
These tiny dedicated number pads usually
have 21 keys, giving you all of the keys on
a normal full-size keyboard’s number pad
plus a few extras — perhaps for functions
like Escape,Tab or Backspace.

12. KEYCAPS
A keycap is a small plastic cover placed over the key switch of a
computer keyboard. Keycaps are illustrated to indicate the key
function or alphanumeric character they correspond to.

13. KEYCAPS
Customization

14. KEYCAPS
Customization

15. BRANDS