(In Stock) SA Motorsport Selectric Keycaps

SA Motorsport Selectric Designed by Madmax13 & switchbox.studio

Inspiration

We designed Motorsport Selectric to invoke classic liveries from the golden age of sports car racing, between the mid 1960s and ‘70s. One of the era's most famous and distinctive liveries belongs to Gulf Motorsport, whose name and colors appear on winning cars from many races, including the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. Despite the brand's dissolution in 1985, the livery and colorway endure to this day both within and outside of motorsports. Racing fans throughout the world know this livery for its bright orange and powder blue. 

The IBM Selectric typewriter and subsequent namesake Signature Plastics SA kits are also primary influences for this set. While the SA Selectric kits came before my time in the hobby, I think they demonstrate how uniquely suited the SA profile is to icon modifier legends. While the Selectric kits represented the dominant source of icon mods in SA profile, they lacked any examples for Print Screen, Pause, and Scroll Lock keys. With this in mind, we have designed double shot friendly versions based on publicly available icons that have previously appeared on popular dye sub keysets.

As a further homage to the theme, we have developed new arrows reminiscent of the US standard W1-8 chevron alignment signage used to indicate sharp turns.

I have designed this set with stock Signature Plastics colors in mind and have listed them on the kitting renders.

Kitting

I designed the kits to conform with guidance suggesting a monokit alongside a set of smaller, more focused kitting. As such, I made the monokit to work with UK ISO and ANSI keyboard standards, modern Alice, full size, and Happy Hacking Keyboards with a full set of novelties. This monokit is for people who just need a bit of everything.

I designed the small kits around an “alpha +” strategy, in which a consumer with a normal enthusiast keyboard (smaller than or equal to a TKL using ANSI layout with Tsangan bottom row support) must only buy the alpha kit plus another modifier kit. I designed this to minimize the number of different kits that users need to buy to cover their keyboard. 1800 or full size keyboard users will need to buy the number pad kit, and Alice users will need to buy the “extras” kit. I modeled the “40s and Ortho” kit around DSS After School with extensive feedback and iteration from the 40s Discord server.

Specifications:

• Double Shot ABS
• SA Profile
• Manufactured by Signature Plastics