Hands on with Ursa, a new keycap option for Topre keyboards

Your Happy Hacking Keyboard can finally get fresh caps.

While regular keyboards have an embarrassment of keycap options, Topre boards like the HHKB

or Realforce R3 don’t. They’ve more or less been relegated to OEM-profile PBT keycaps with dye-sublimated legends, in light grey, charcoal, white, or (recently) a few more colorful options. Something as basic as black keycaps with white legends just didn’t exist for unmodified Topre boards. Until now.

Ursa is a new style of keycap for Topre electrocapacitive switches. I first wrote about them in April 2024, during the group buy, which was originally expected to ship in early 2025. Well, here …

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