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2021-10-26, 16:15

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Originally Posted by psmith2.0 View Post
Do you like the all-black keyboard area, or do you think it looks better (and easier to find things) when there was silver or space grey gaps between the black keys?

That’s the only thing, looks/design-wise, I don’t like in these new models, the all black keyboard area. I prefer the individual keys standing out from their background.
They theorized on ATP that it's an all-black blob precisely to avoid individual keys standing out so much, which made the arrow keys look very out of place (which they previously worked around by making the left and right arrows full-height, but not the up and down ones, so, 1) inconsistent, and 2) actually hard to feel around).

Once I heard that, I thought "yup, that's gotta be why". Suddenly, the arrow key layout is no longer visually noticeable.
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