ePBT Rin | GB 3/11 - 4/11 | Pricing, Collab Previews & Deskmat Samples!

Welcome to the IC post for my very first set, ePBT Rin!

The Inspiration
This set was inspired by the colours of the main character of an anime-style music video, for one of my favourite songs (Shelter), by two of my favourite artists (Porter Robinson & Madeon)!

I am open to all kinds of feedback and will make changes and adjustments based on what I get in the Interest Check Form, so I would really appreciate it if you had some time to fill it out

Interest Check Form Here!
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Colors:
Disclaimer: All kit/render images are approximations of the colours irl and will show up differently on different monitors. The final products may differ slightly from the rendered images but the Pantone codes are provided below to show the colours used.

Here are the updated pics of the actual Pantone chips (taken in studio lighting)!

More pics of the chips in outdoor/natural lighting are below

Alphas: Pantone 705C*
Alpha Legends: Pantone 702C*
Mods: Pantone 702C*
Mod Legends: Pantone 705C*
Accent: Pantone 2707C*
Accent Legends: Pantone 2767C*

*I have converted from uncoated (UC) to coated (C) Pantones now, so I will be updating the board and kit renders to reflect the coated colours better!

Kits:
NOTE: The sublegends in Base kit has been changed to a slightly different font, that is not as thin as the previous renders! This is the font that will be submitted to ePBT

Updated Base Kit
*Note: I’ve included basic ISO support in the base kit and included UK ISO in the Latin alt alphas kit


Updated Latin Alt Alphas Kit
*Note: I’ve included basic ISO support in the base kit and included UK ISO in the Latin alt alphas kit


NEW NorDe Alt Alphas Kit
*Note: I’ve included support for Swedish, Finnish, German, Danish and Norwegian in this kit.


Novelties Kit

*All of the artwork for these novelties are original images drawn by either myself or the artists I had commissioned!

Numpad Kit


40s Kit


Updated Spacebars Kit and Minibars Kit (2 separate kits)



Renders:

Saka68 by CMM.Studio




Dino104 by nFaiz


Tilted40 by Swishy


Iron165 FE by Smith + Rune
Rendered by Oggi (using the old colours)




Deskmats:

I have also taken feedback for the deskmat designs into account and I am combining the current version for the one that has Rin in it and the previous version, to get this version below! Let me know if you would prefer the new version or not in the updated IC form I will stick with the new version unless I have comments saying to revert to the previous blue background version!

NEW Rin's World


NEW Rin’s Room - Pink


NEW Virtual Landscape

Drawn by my friend @azyria.doodles

Samples of the deskmats came in! Pictures (the lighting is not very great unfortunately) are below. I will be changing the stitching for Rin's Room to a light pink, but aside from that I am very happy with how these turned out!


Collabs:
A HUGE thank you to the following confirmed artisan and cable collaborations for ePBT Rin (and a few more may be added!) Will be updated to show the designs once I get them finalized!

Asero Foundry


Monokei


StayWired Cables (Info about custom aviator colour to come!)


MelonKeys (DELAYED until ~June 2022)


Bowbie Keycaps


Keyzen Caps



Enso Keycaps


Froueloop


SURPRISE COLLAB - Cantoclicks!
I could not resist having a Rin Bear BaoBao collab!


Y-CP Keyboards
Below is the design for the sleeve collab with Y-CP Keyboards (one side is the blue/bear and the other side is the pink/Rin)!

ALSO there will be a STICKER with every Base kit purchase of ePBT Rin on ApexKeyboards! I have also gotten interest from Mekibo, proto[Typist] and StacksKB to offer the sticker as well! More details TBA.

See below for the sticker samples!

The adorable artwork is by alesetiawan!
Sticker design is by my amazing friend Jess!

I currently have enough collabs for the launch but if you are interested in a collab with ePBT Rin for after the GB period, please feel free to reach out to me on Discord (Jennisaurus#8394) and we can work something out!

Vendors

CAN: ApexKeyboardsUS: MekiboSEA: Hex KeyboardsRest of Asia & Worldwide: KBDFansEU: MyKeyboardUK: proto[Typist]AU: DailyClackIndia: StacksKB
Pricing (Other Vendors TBD)

Deskmat, Metal Artisan and Sleeve Prices TBD!


To Do List
※ Post IC
※ Moar Rendies
※ Get Porter’s Blessing
※ Finalize Kitting
※ Finalize Novelties
※ Moar Deskmat Art
※ Find Vendors
※ Get Manufacturer Quotes
※ Collabs! Collabs! Collabs!
※ GROUP BUY!




A Special Thanks to the Following Peeps!

※ Nick, and my wonderful friends and family for supporting me as I set out to make this set <3
※ Tomkatsuuu and Marshmellohs for being the first people on board with my set/design and their encouragement and support ;-;
※ Xerpocalypse for his blessing on my colourway (since some comparisons were brought up early on)!
※ Oggi for the amazing renders and for being super patient and flexible!
※ Luz for the super cute bear and spaceship novelties!
※ Azyria for the amazing Virtual Landscape deskmat design and help with some of the novelties!
※ Jess and alestiawan for the sticker design!
※ DrHigsby, Matt, Honorless and Acitrin for their help and feedback on my kitting (40s and ISO especially)!
※ NoPunIn10Did for the helpful advice and wisdom about JP layouts/Hiragana sublegends!
※ Dandruff for helping me out with my many questions regarding ePBT!
※ Pararch, Swishy, Ty and Aad for their general feedback and comments on the set/colours/kitting!
※ Vince from ApexKeyboards for all his help along this journey to GB!
※ And lastly, to viewers...like you! (and anyone who has commented on my set on Discord or Reddit)