PBT Toby

PBT Toby is part face, part icon.
IC Form: https://forms.gle/b4WFrGEYTn66GpiZ8

Inspiration

This set is based on my buddy Toby, (https://www.instagram.com/barrett_creative/) a woodworker and solid meme of a guy.
The set has inspirations from woodworking, but also Toby's signature outfit. He has cameoed in some of my YouTube videos and streams, and has gained a cult following.
I was a bit inspired by other face sets, but decided to go my own direction with how I portray the face and kept it more minimal to not impact kitting too heavily.

PBT toby incorporates calming flesh tones Alphas, golden and beard colored accents, and elegant green mods.

This idea was conceived as a late night meme, and then developed over time into a real thing. One night on discord we all changed our profile pictures and names to Toby and the idea was conceived to make all things Toby.
After that, It all started with a reddit post that got over 1k upvotes
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/m10dzy/my_good_bud_toby_just_got_into_keyboards_and/


Kitting




Kitting includes the iconic Toby face and Hat - E and I represent the eyes, B is the nose, and spacebar is the moustache/beard. It also includes standard color replacements for all of the meme keys so it can be used as a normal set as part of the base kit. Barebones ISO support is also included. I have an audience that is newer to keyboards, so I wanted to keep the kitting simple enough to incorporate many layouts, but not confuse anyone. There might be mistakes, and I'm open to suggestions.


Renders



on U80-A by Ramaworks

on Nemui by Bachoo


Production

I currently am prototyping the set through a factory in china and will have prototypes to show off in the next month or so. This will be a dyesub PBT set. No matter what, I will be doing a limited run of 100 sets. I decided to run with a cheaper PBT set as I feel it fits the scuffed meme, and I don't really want to further bog down proper manufactures like GMK. There is a small chance I will run this as a group buy, depending on if the IC feedback warrants a greater production run than 100 sets. But I expect to have the set ready for an in stock sale by Q3 2021.


Pricing/Vendors

Vendors are still in progress but I am in talks with vendors that are comfortable running the set as in-stock or as a group buy. Toby himself is a woodworking vendor, so there is a decent chance if it remains as a 100 stock run we will ship through him.
The pricing is still TBD but I am aiming for $60 - $90 for the full base kit which should be reasonable provided my current factory quotes.

Colors




Final Thoughts
Special thanks to everyone in my discord that helped out with the designing!
Thanks to Toby for letting me use your face for this set, you are the best Anime character.
Yee haw to all the people in the Glarses Discord and on Reddit that encouraged me to make this low effort meme a medium effort set.
If you like the idea of this set - please fill out the IC form and consider joining my discord!

IC Form: https://forms.gle/b4WFrGEYTn66GpiZ8
Discord: https://discord.gg/kPfDvDwW6R


IDK how to do banners someone help me