The third switch is that of the Kangaroo Inks, which boasts ink-material housings but literally no other similarities to that of any of the other mainline switches.
The 8008 Ink switches were the first stepchild adopted into the Ink family around August of 2020 featuring the first entirely opaque ink-material top and bottom housings with the Baltic Inks arriving around January of 2021. The first two switches pictured, the 8008 Ink and Baltic Ink switches were both linear, Black Ink inspired switches that were custom ordered in conjunction with respective keycap sets of GMK 8008 and GMK Baltic. While everyone is already intimately familiar with that of the classic Black, Slightly Quieter Black, Blue, Red, and Yellow Ink switches, above is a family photo of some of the closely related switches that fall under the Ink family tree of switches. Keeping up with the family analogy used to describe groups of themed switches, we may as well refer to these as stepchildren at this point. Thus, this effectively leaves me without many switches in and around this are of Gateron’s history to discuss with the exception of the more niche, less mainline Ink-based switch options made by Gateron.
I’ve covered the history of the Ink switches pretty extensively and thoroughly in my Box Ink Pink switch review, already. Given that the new Gateron Oil Kings feature Ink-housing material in the bottom housings, though, one could easily argue that I should go through and do an extensive breakdown of the entire Gateron Ink family of switches in its glorious in entirety. One of the subtle great points about writing reviews on very, very recently released switches is that I can shave down my time on both the researching and writing of the ‘Background’ section of them in one ultimately efficient, totally not time-crunched fashion. Do remember, though, that I am but one opinion in this very wide hobby and far from the infallible, singular voice on switches. So with these here (and all of their normal links under the ‘Archive’ tab at the top of this page), I appreciate anyone who enjoys my content enough to want to share it in any capacity and am absolutely okay with it.
Black ink switches full#
This not only contains all of the scorecards that are shown at the bottom of long form reviews like this one, but over 75 more exclusive switches I’ve not written full length reviews on. Finally, and most recognizably to my audience at large is that of the Scorecard Repository on Github. This Google Drive folder contains a couple hundred photos from my Instagram, Twitter, and reviews that are completely usable by anyone for any purpose. The next piece of content to be pointed towards is my public usage Photo Vault. This sheet contains all of the switch measurements done in full length reviews as well as over 50 other exclusive switches, comparisons of each dimension by vendor, and some more fun charts for the data nerds out there among us. The first, and definitely least trafficked is that of the Measurement Sheet.
Black ink switches update#
In addition to the full-length reviews that I have posted here, though, I do also want to point to another few sources of content that I regularly update that may be of usage to you all here. While I do kindly request that I get credited when I am quoted, cited, or any of my content is used in any fashion, I’m not the police and I won’t come after you over it. I’ve always wanted anyone willing and interested in providing money of any amount to do so of their own volition and not under the guise of getting access to “special” content.
Even my Patrons on Patreon, without whom I wouldn’t be able to buy and talk about so many of these awesome switches or technology which is (and will be being) used to create these reviews, don’t get any exclusive content.
Black ink switches free#
As a result of this very valid concern, I wanted to carve out the beginning of this review to remind all of you reading this that my content has always been and will always be free and openly accessible to anybody in the community who wishes to use it. While I was and still am quite giddy about the honor of being quoted on an Aliexpress sales page, a few people who had seen it reached out to me in concern initially about Gopolar doing such as it doesn’t appear as if there was a direct link back to my work.
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