UK ISO mechanical keyboard keycaps
Getting keycaps for an ANSI board is really easy. There’s a lot of options available. With ISO boards however, the choice really narrows and half decent options end up costing a fortune.
Here’s my round up of my favourite keycap sets, which hopefully will prove useful if you’re in the UK looking for a new set 🙂.
| Profile | Keycap set | Ansi | Iso | UK “£” keycap | Genuine / Clone | Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OEM? | Black Pudding |  |
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⁉️ | Custom | Custom Keycaps | £24.99 + postage |
| Cherry | Red Samurai | |
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Clone | Amazon | £49.99 |
| XDA | Coral | |
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⁉️ | Amazon | £32.99 |
| MA | Blue Cat | |
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Clone | AliExpress | £37.55 + vat |
| Cherry | Botanical | |
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Clone | AliExpress | £34.87 + vat |
| Cherry | Heavy Industry | |
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⁉️ | AliExpress | £24.16 + vat |
| Cherry | Camping R3 | |
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Genuine | GMK Group Buy | £186 + shipping for base/novelties/spacebars. |
| Cherry | Corsair PBT | |
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Genuine | Amazon | £30 |
I opted for a colour blend of two of the Corsair sets (mint and glacier white), but kinda wish i’d just gone for the Blue Cat clones from AliExpress 😏
There is some hilarious debate on the Corsair PBT DOUBLE-SHOT PRO Keycap page on Amazon. Several posts claiming that it is not a UK layout. You can clearly see from the image above that the Corsair keycaps work fine on a standard ISO TKL board. There are some of the older Corsair boards which feature a larger spacebar and smaller windows key where this set of keycaps is not appropriate. The keyboard above is the Keychron K8 with a standard layout, the spacebar is 6.25u and the other bottom row keys are all 1.25u.