I’ll tell you what, when you have a Chroma-powered Razer keyboard at your fingertips, you want to see those lights that radiate colors, just like the images on your site. Models with light dispensing chambers at the bottom of keys such as Ornata and Cynosa look like those color reflections, but keyboards with keys on blackwidow’s new models and black aluminum plates like the Huntsmans don’t have that kind of surface where light can be reflected. As a result, the lights are mostly seen as the letter parts of the keys and a little bit of filtering from the bottom.
Especially since I like to use the Ambient Awareness setting and see the dominant colors on the screen on the keyboard, shouldn’t I be troubled by this light dissipation? I went, started studying pudding keypads, one of the favorite customization elements of recent times, and decided on HyperX. Indeed, the colors of the keyboard have only just come out, but I can’t keep warm to the HyperX logo on the Space key. At the time, I kept thinking, “Why doesn’t Razer get into this pudding keycaps business?”
Let me see, Razer Phantom introduced my dream keypad under the name Keycap Upgrade Set! In the first place, it was announced that it would only be sold through the Razer Store, so I made a million calculations on how to get it, who to buy it to, how to send it. Well, since I bought my Cynosa Pro the same way, there’s experience involved.
When I got my hands on the Phantom Keycap Upgrade Set, I saw that it was really worth the wait. Once you open the keypad box, you are greeted by black keys. You don’t have any letters on them, you know, fancy keys like that. Unlike HyperX or similar keypads, the translucent part at the bottom of the key is dark gray, not white. This means that when you line up the keypad, you’ll have a black (or white) keyboard, rather than a dual color.
When the lightless version is already so stylish, the moment you power the keyboard, with the appearance of those letters and symbols on the keys, it becomes a completely different situation. Look, I admired this keypad as someone who tried two different phantom keypads, one branded and one unbranded. The way translucent areas distribute light is also very successful, colors are homogeneously intertwined if you do not look at the angle, the LEDs definitely do not attract your attention.
It is possible to use these sets on all Razer Mini, Tenkeyless and full-size mechanical/optical keyboards, with 128 keys coming out of it that match the US and UK key sequence. Alternative sizes are also available for the lower row keys, so you don’t have the slightest problem. However, despite being compatible with all Razer keyboards, I wouldn’t say the Huntsman V2 Analog has a successful result, since the key switches on that keyboard turn off the light from all directions except up. So due to the nature of the analog key switches, do not expect much from Phantom keys on this keyboard. BlackWidow, on the other hand, has a full-on radiation. You can see what I’m talking about in the image below.. The keyboard at the bottom is Huntsman V2 Analogue, and the top one is BlackWidow. Huntsman’s keys only have a slight beam of light from the top, while blackwidow keys are scattered from all sides.
Of course, the part that overshadows all these beauties is the price tag as usual. This keypad, which sells for $35 in the Razer Store, has a gift of more than 400 liras at today’s rates, and I’m not adding taxes on top of it. Keypads of other brands are reduced to 200 liras in discounts and have sales in Turkey. I’m sure no Razer owner would even think of other brand keys if we started selling them to the local market at an affordable price, but I don’t know if we’ll ever see those days.
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