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Background
Buckle up, folks. This is a biggie.

This wasn't the set I thought I was going to try to run next. I've been challenging myself to create a quickie design a couple times a week, based on silly names I come up with. One recent one was "Cream of Cadet," which spawned the idea for a low-contrast, beige-on-cream cadet set.

While I was messing around with that and trying to make it more legible, I started fondly remembering the old Violet on Cream rounds, and came up with a name for another purple set, "A History of Violets." (Get it? Like that David Cronenberg film from 20 years ago? Sigh.)

Drawing influence from the movie's mood, I went dark; using two shades of deep purple, with cream's presence reduced to just the legends and accents. And you know what? I liked the results. A lot. And I felt like other people might, too. So I pushed this ahead of multiple other projects, and I'm presenting it now.

Yes, it could be said this is just Cream on Violet, instead of Violet on Cream. But there are a LOT of shades of violet, and the two used here are nowhere close to VoC's.


Violet on Cream (left) vs A History of Violets (right), both using identical legends. Render colors sourced from Signature Plastics's own provided hex values.

Since I was now making something of a 2014 throwback set anyway, I thought why not try to design and include ALL the niche kits you'd see offered back in the day? After all, Symbiosis had 20 kits! So I looked at every feasible request anyone had ever made of my previous designs, and drew them up.

And I mean EVERY one. It's up to you if ANY of these kits get made, but let no one say I didn't try.

To sum up - this looks good, no one owns the concept of purple (except maybe Grimace), and it's been too long since we got purple, cadet legends, ostentatiously comprehensive kitting, and Signature Plastics's quality all together to party. Let's do this.


Colors
All colors are Signature Plastics stock ABS resins.

RDR purple alphas
REC dark purple mods
WCK cream legends
Alert keys are WCK with REC legends

Colors in indirect and direct sunlight



Dates
Spring 2025, with shipping in the late summer.





Pricing
Likely Kits:
Base: TBD
Extension: TBD
Numpad: TBD
40s/Ortho: TBD
Cream Alert: TBD
Novelties: TBD

Less Likely Kits:
Ergo Full Base: TBD
Ergo Mods Only: TBD
Monolegend Alphas: TBD
LED: TBD
Norde: TBD
Mac: TBD
Typist (Colemak/Dvorak): TBD
VimCaps: TBD


Revised January 2025 Kitting
Base


Extension with Macro Columns


Numpad and Roman Numerals


40%/Ortho


Cream Alert


Violet and Lotus Novelties



Unlikely Additional Kits
Ergo Option 1: Full Ergo Base


Ergo Option 2: Ergo Mods Only


Monolegend Alphas


LED Shinethrough


NorDe


Macintosh


VimCaps


Typist (Colemak and Dvorak)



Additional Renders


About the Designer


Support AHoV!
I'll be blunt - this is a LOT of keycap. I'm counting on y'all to agree with me that this color combo looks pretty spiffy, and to vote with your wallets and prove you want to see bigger, more outrageous offerings like this come back again. This set is a deliberate throwback to the heady era of the 2010's, when windowed, ErgoDox, NorDe, and Colevrak kits were a common thing.

Do you want to see more of that? I do. Again, there's no guarantee ANY of these kits will run without your support. So please fill out the feedback form and let vendors know you want them.

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