My tip would be to start with a Keychron or Akko. Keychron has 3 series of boards, essentially; K, V, and Q. You want V or Q.

Otherwise get ready to spend $300-500. And if you do, realise that you can multiply that by 5-10 before you feel you’ve explored the “basic” options of custom mechanical keyboards, and probably multiply it by 20 before you’re done.

Personally my daily driver is an HHKB Pro2.

I’m considering MTNU Susu on it, but I believe Pixel Platoon would look great on it however the designer is most likely moving away from GMK and I’m afraid it won’t have nordeuk support in the end.

I have Spark and it’s too light. I use the Spark set on a keychron q0 blue ano, but that ano is way lighter than the Arc60 navy.

Stargaze looks awesome, but unfortunately no nordeuk set.

Thank you I wasn’t expecting any replies; I want either a blank set (which I use on my two hhkbs) or something that more closely reflects reality which means it needs to have nordeuk support :-P

I’ve tried BoW, Norse, Spark, and a few others like KAM Soaring Skies (way too glossy) and NK Cherry RAW (doesn’t need nordeuk set because it’s so weird), and none of them fit.

Thank you I wasn’t expecting any replies; I want either a blank set (which I use on my two hhkbs) or something that more closely reflects reality which means it needs to have nordeuk support :-P

That looks gorgeous. I’m having such a hard time finding the right keycap set for my Arc60 in deep navy ano, it’s proving almost impossible.

That’s what I suspect, but the Type-K just looks so good and I also want to enjoy my desk on an aesthetic level :-P

I know I’m delaying the inevitable, but so be it lol

Yes you could work that way, that’s why the layout is popular - because it’s a good layout.

However true HHKB layout (6u spacebar) is even better because it places the two mod keys on the right of the spacebar closer. If the HHKB had 2x 3u spacebar instead of 6u it would be even better.

I’ve used a HHKB layout board since 2007 or so and only recently I bought my first non-HHKB board because I really want to try the Type-K alice. So I got a cheap keychron V8 used to ready for the Type-K.

However, even the Type-K has way too many keys for me (it really annoys me when the board extends past the leftmost edge of the main cluster because I aim for Esc by my pinky drifting off the board, if that makes sense), so I’m eagerly awaiting someone makes a true HHKB tented alice with the type-k refinements of the layout.