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I prefer blank keycaps. Better for posture and focus to not be looking at your keyboard all the time. Also, maintaining the need to see your keys clearly puts arbitrary limits on tent angle.

I would appreciate something which could understand both my keyboard firmware and whichever app has focus, and summon a hotkey helper on screen which mirrored my key layout.

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I've been using a blank Das Keyboard [1] at work for years. Besides all of the benefits you've listed, I've also found that it's the most effective deterrent for keeping people off my desk/off my computer that I've ever deployed.

[1] https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-ultimate/

I used a blank DAS to learn to touchtype. I now use a non-blank Kinesis Advantage2, but it has qwerty keycaps while all my devices are colemak so it has a similar effect to blank with the added bonus of confusing other people even more because the keycaps don’t match what is typed.

Ha, awesome. It makes me want to get some keycaps in some obscure language like klingon, just to mess with people.

I ended up going with blank but I did consider getting "Linear A" keycaps https://shop.keyboard.io/products/linear-a-keycaps-m100 for my Keyboardio Model 100.

I like to use symbol only space cadet keycaps https://mkultra.click/gb-kat-space-cadet

Yep, I may have gotten carried away with that. There's nothing so uniquely mine as this: https://imgur.com/a/vXLX4RA

For me, this plus a split keyboard in the Dvorak layout fries the brains of anyone who might dare to try to use my computer.

Agreed. I'm also left handed and have my mouse to the left of the keyboard with the buttons swapped. It's amazingly effective.

Not to be pedantic, but in the “Easy Maintenance” clip you can see the keycaps are in fact blank

Touche

if you don't want to shell out for a das keyboard, you could really just use any keyboard and spraypaint all the keycaps

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